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securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack
Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack
SecurityWeek

Denim company Levi Strauss & Co on Friday disclosed a cyberattack that affected certain corporate data stored on employee computers. The incident, it said in a Form 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was the result of…

securityweek.com - Ionut Arghire - CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability
SecurityWeek

The US cybersecurity agency CISA has urged federal agencies to immediately patch a critical-severity vulnerability in Progress Kemp LoadMaster that has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score of 9.6), the flaw is described…

techcrunch.com - Rebecca Bellan - The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
TechCrunch

Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and…

businessinsider.com - Alice Tecotzky - AI is changing more than young bankers' workflows. It's creating a whole new career path.
AI is changing more than young bankers' workflows. It's creating a whole new career path.
Business Insider

Young bankers are facing a new choice. Wall Street has traditionally offered a clear, if grueling, career path for junior employees: get an internship, work in investment banking for two years, and decide whether to stay in banking, move to the buy…

securityweek.com - Eduard Kovacs - Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People
Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People
SecurityWeek

DEF CON — A security researcher has revealed severe, now-resolved security vulnerabilities in the Connective digital identity system, a browser extension used by over two million users in Belgium. Developed by Nitro Software Belgium, the…

pcgamer.com - Shaun Prescott - Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
Australians must now prove their age to buy R18+ games on the Xbox store
PC Gamer

If you use the Xbox store to buy either Xbox or PC games—and yes, the latter is possible—you may be prompted to verify your age the next time you try to buy an R18+ game. Microsoft confirmed as much via emails sent to users over the…

barchart.com - Kritika Sarmah - Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting GE HealthCare Stock Will Climb or Sink?
Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting GE HealthCare Stock Will Climb or Sink?
Barchart.com

Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC) is a leading global healthcare technology company that provides medical technology, pharmaceutical diagnostics, digital solutions, services, and data analytics to improve…

thehindubusinessline.com - Market likely to adapt to new closing auction
Market likely to adapt to new closing auction
BusinessLine

SEBI has changed how the official closing price is determined for shares on which futures and options are available. Now, regular cash-market trading in these shares ends at 3.15 pm, followed by an auction. Broadly, the price at which the maximum…

cointelegraph.com - Felix Ng - First Quantum Crypto Hack May Leave No Trace
First Quantum Crypto Hack May Leave No Trace
Cointelegraph

The first sign that quantum computing has broken modern cryptography probably won't be a splashy theft of Satoshi Nakamoto's dormant Bitcoin. It could just be a wave of unrelated crypto wallet breaches with no trace of how an attacker did it…

itnews.com.au - Eightcap uses AI to scale compliance across global markets
Eightcap uses AI to scale compliance across global markets
iTnews

Fast-growing Australian fintech Eightcap is using AI to help manage growing compliance workloads while ensuring customer data complies with privacy, access and data sovereignty requirements across multiple jurisdictions. Eightcap senior…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - Chinese brokers tighten client scrutiny to mitigate over-leveraging risks, Bloomberg reports
Chinese brokers tighten client scrutiny to mitigate over-leveraging risks, Bloomberg reports
The Standard

Chinese brokers are intensifying the scrutiny of new accounts and tightening reviews of margin financing, securities lending, and options trading, as part of regulatory efforts to curb risky bids after a sharp market pullback, Bloomberg reported on…

pluralistic.net - Cory Doctorow - Pluralistic: The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026)
Pluralistic: The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction (10 Aug 2026)
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

The bureaucratic AI arms-race is mutually assured destruction: The only way to win is not to play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Seymour Cray's tunnels; War on moisture; $5 wrench cryptanalysis; Nauru files; People's…

siliconangle.com - Jason English - Finding big money for AI and a smaller world for security at Black Hat USA 2026
Finding big money for AI and a smaller world for security at Black Hat USA 2026
SiliconANGLE

Las Vegas was hotter than hell last week, but not as hot as the market for artificial intelligence-enabled security at Black Hat USA 2026. A bandwagon of million-dollar booths for overfunded agentic security startups arose like mirages from the…

indianexpress.com - Maulshree Seth - Who will be Ram Temple Trust's first CEO? 18 shortlisted for final interview
Who will be Ram Temple Trust's first CEO? 18 shortlisted for final interview
The Indian Express

4 min read Lucknow Make us preferred source on Google After nearly 20 days of screening more than 5,000 applications from across the country, the three-member committee tasked with selecting the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Shri Ram…

thenyledger.com - Press Room - Why billion-dollar robotics startups are obsessed with folding laundry
Why billion-dollar robotics startups are obsessed with folding laundry
The New York Ledger

Before Silicon Valley's robots take over, they have to learn to fold your underwear. In recent months, some of the buzziest robotics startups — including Figure AI, Sunday Robotics, and Weave Robotics — have shown off robots that…

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