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Maxwell Cooter

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target (opens the original)

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    It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, according to research by Israeli security company Gambit. But the attacks have been going on for much longer. Whoever is responsible used open-source AI harnesses to mount the attack. Gambit has identified three of these: Strix for vulnerability search, Cairn for autonomous end-to-end exploitation, and Her

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    OpenAI wants you to use AI — but not to train its AI (opens the original)

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    Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately for OpenAI, it found many of them were using AI to train the AI, so not providing a human touch at all, according to a report in 404 Media. The company has subsequently fir

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    Documentation placeholder domain used in ClickFix attacks (opens the original)

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    The domain name third-party[.]com is being used to serve malware to users — bad news for those following a little too literally online documentation that uses it as a placeholder for any third-party domain. The site is serving a ClickFix lure to Windows machines, which sidesteps existing protection and can effect changes to PowerShell, according to Manifold Security, which discovered the problem. It’s an interesting site to target. Web developers frequently use the third-party[.]com domain as a

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    Google plans Gemini 4 release before year-end (opens the original)

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    Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live Summit. Some Google observers have speculated that this could be as early as October. Kavukcuoglu recently replaced DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis as head of the Google business unit. The launch of Gemini 4 may lay to re

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Maxwell Cooter

    Meta floats project to lay first petabit submarine fiberoptic cable (opens the original)

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    The 7,000 km (4,350 mile) cable, called Petal, will connect the US and France. Meta is partnering with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries to build it, and working with French telecommunications company Orange to coordinate the landing of the cable on the French coast. Petal will have more than double the capacity of today’s fastest transoceanic cables. Last November, AWS laid plans for a 320 Tbit/s cable between the US and Ireland, while a cable connecting Australia and the US, announced in Ja

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