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    The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human; plus, hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites

    08/07/2026 | 7 mins.
    An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.

    Also, the U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."
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    Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk; Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year

    07/07/2026 | 7 mins.
    These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

    Also, the hacking operations disclosed in a Canadian spy agency's annual report underscores some pressing national security threats facing the country and its top allies.
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    What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public

    06/07/2026 | 10 mins.
    Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
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    Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become; plus, Mark Zuckerberg said AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped

    03/07/2026 | 5 mins.
    Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low-and-behold.

    And at an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
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    US government says it got hacked — again; Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company

    03/07/2026 | 6 mins.
    A top Democrat on the Senate's Intelligence Committee warned that the information accessed on a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network may risk national security.

    Also, Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
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