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Core characteristics of AI blockchainsThe convergence of blockchain and AI holds plenty of promise due to the way they complement one another. Blockchain’s immutability can ensure integrity and trust in the data that powers AI systems, while AI can bring enhanced automation and intelligence to blockchain-based systems. The synergies are clear. Consider supply chains, where blockchain can ensure full transparency and visibility, while AI can predict changes

Getting your hands on MagistralFor those wanting to experiment, Magistral Small is available now under the Apache 2.0 licence via Hugging Face. Those interested in the more powerful Medium version can test a preview through Mistral’s Le Chat interface or via their API platform. Enterprise users looking for deployment options can find Magistral Medium on Amazon SageMaker, with IBM WatsonX, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplace implementations coming soon.As t

The problems, which started Thursday, were initially flagged as affecting the company’s services in the U.S. and the Americas, but quickly spread around the world, as engineers struggled to recover downed servers. What began as an Outlook email and Teams video conferencing outage soon developed into a full blown meltdown, affecting the company’s cloud services for both consumer and business email, files, and documents. The outage also knocked out the compa

Let’s talk about Jensen Huang’s many affairs!What a week today has been!Part OfNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned. What happens next?see all updates is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.Usually, we’d be offering to answer your questions about a news event, but honestly we don’t really have any answers about what the hell is going on over

Fake Zillow pages use ClickFix NetSupport RAT to target apartment hunters EfficientIP Research Labs traced a ClickFix campaign that used fake Zillow apartment-review pages to install NetSupport RAT on visitors’ Windows computers. Each page showed what looked like a routine verification check. Behind it, the page quietly copied a PowerShell command to the clipboard and walked the visitor through pasting and running it. Doing that installs remote-control sof

Your pinned MCP server may not be as pinned as you think An MCP server configured to run one fixed release on an administrator’s workstation ran with 15 different sets of dependencies over five weeks, with its configuration untouched. James Lagermann, Director of Technical Alliances at Corelight, found the drift in his company’s lab. Twenty-three of the server’s 69 packages changed versions, including the cryptography library, the JSON Web Token library an

Suspected North Korean IT workers reached onboarding at companies with open data Material Security followed suspected North Korean fake IT workers through the hiring pipelines of organizations it monitors and counted 27 personas that reached onboarding over one year. At one company where a persona got that far in the past month, about 277,000 files containing Social Security numbers were shared company-wide or by public link. The personas are fabricated jo

How attackers turned a Teams meeting booking into a device code phishing trap Attackers used a fake Microsoft Teams meeting scheduler to trick an employee at a construction company into approving a device code sign-in. They got a valid session token before Huntress’s security operations center identified the incident. Device code phishing abuses a real Microsoft sign-in flow. The attacker starts a sign-in, gets a short code back, and persuades the victim t

Stolen webcam clips of 900+ victims feed North Korea’s $400 million fake Zoom scheme North Korean state hackers have stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months by pulling targets into fake Zoom and Teams calls filled with webcam footage of earlier victims. The FBI calls the scheme FaceStealer. It has seized more than 900 of those recordings, and on November 12 it warned crypto and web3 workers and open-source maintainers about