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Earl Bensen

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Earl Bensen

    Apple Patches iPhone Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks; Rival Meta Caught It (opens the original)

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    Apple's graphics-rendering layer has been silently turned against a set of specific, unnamed iPhone users — and the researcher who caught the flaw before it spread wider was not an Apple employee but a security engineer at Meta, the company Apple competes with most directly. Apple released iOS 26.7.1, iPadOS 26.7.1, macOS Tahoe 26.7.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1 on September 28, 2026, patching CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in CoreGraphics that the company confirmed had been

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Earl Bensen

    Akamai Lands $11.6 Billion Anthropic Deal as CPU Inference Defies GPU Consensus (opens the original)

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    When Akamai Technologies disclosed the $11.6 billion agreement with Anthropic on Thursday — the largest AI cloud contract signed anywhere in 2026 — the headline figure was striking enough on its own. But the more significant fact buried inside the SEC filing was quieter: Anthropic is paying that sum specifically for CPU workloads, not GPU clusters. That distinction matters more than the dollar amount. For the past three years, the dominant assumption in AI infrastructure has been that serious co

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Earl Bensen

    WordPress Patch Became Exploit Blueprint: CVE-2026-87902 Webshells Hit 350K Sites (opens the original)

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    Attackers began deploying functional PHP webshells on vulnerable WordPress servers within 48 hours of a critical patch release, exploiting a path-traversal flaw that affects every WordPress version from 4.7.0 through 7.1.1 — a range spanning nearly a decade of releases. The campaign against CVE-2026-87902 is active right now, and more than 350,000 sites remain exposed, according to Shadowserver. WordPress issued its 7.1.2 security patch on September 22, 2026. Within hours, security firm Patchsta

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Earl Bensen

    AI Agents Hacked 100 Online Retailers for $25 Each, Stealing 600,000 Cards (opens the original)

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    A Chinese-speaking threat actor ran three open-source AI agent frameworks against hundreds of online retailers this summer — autonomously, at a marginal cost of roughly $25 per company — stealing more than 600,000 credit card records and, in at least one case, accidentally destroying a victim's own database backups in the process. The full campaign details are documented in Gambit Security's September 22 threat intelligence report. The campaign was disclosed on September 22, 2026 by Gambit Secur

  5. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Earl Bensen

    Google Merges AI Mode, Search Live, and Song Search Into Android Voice Button (opens the original)

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    The four-color microphone button sitting in the Google bar on most Android homescreens has done one thing for years: listen to your voice and hand you a standard web search. Starting with this week's Google app beta, it does four things — and it remembers which one you used last. Google is testing a sweeping redesign of the voice search interface on Android that folds three previously separate AI-powered features into a unified entry point. The update, spotted in Google app versions 17.1 and 17.

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