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SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines
Credit: K2LStudio - shutterstock.com A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, got into…
Corn Prices Are Trending Higher: How to Trade Futures Here
May corn (ZCK26) futures present a buying opportunity on more price strength. See on the daily bar chart for May corn futures that prices are trending higher. See, too, at the bottom of the chart that the moving average convergence divergence…
Meta's Threads is letting users be the boss of their own algorithm
Threads, Meta's X-like social network, rolled out a feature that lets users tell the app's algorithm what they want to see more or less of in their feed. The feature, called Dear Algo, works like this: you write a public Threads post starting with…
Elon Musk reveals xAI's new structure and says it meant 'parting ways' with some staff
Elon Musk revealed xAI's new company structure during the company's all-hands meeting on Tuesday night. In the presentation, which was later posted on X, Musk and other leaders at the company broke down the leads behind xAI's four main products:…
Slack's new head just denounced Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes in internal messages
Salesforce executives, including Slack's new general manager, addressed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff's jokes about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to internal messages. Benioff angered some employees with the comments on Tuesday…
Another sign that Wall Street's booked and busy? Goldman Sachs has upped its late-night dinner budget for bankers.
For Goldman Sachs bankers, the hottest dinner spot in 2026 could very well be their desks. As the year's anticipated dealmaking frenzy gets underway, the corporate merger machine is hungry, and investment banking advisors are too. Goldman has…
New collar' work is rising: These high-paying jobs don't need a college degree. Here are 10 of them
Job insecurity is real: More than half of American workers (54%) say insecurity about their job is causing significant stress at work, while more than a third (39%) say they worry they about losing their job due to changes in government policies…
Elon Musk holds xAI all-hands meeting after a wave of staff departures
XAI brought staffers together for an all-hands on Tuesday night, shortly after the company lost its second cofounder in less than 48 hours. Musk did not directly address the departures of company cofounders Tony Wu and Jimmy Ba, but thanked those…
David's Sling runs drills after shooting Iranian missile
In the aftermath of the David's Sling aerial defense system shooting down an Iranian ballistic missile in June 2025, the Defense Ministry announced new successful shoot-down drills on Wednesday. Both the Defense Ministry and David Sling…
Amazon limits on Claude Code frustrate employees, including some who have to sell it to cloud customers
Amazon is one of Anthropic's largest investors and a key partner in bringing the startup's AI models and products to customers. Inside Amazon, however, employees aren't allowed to use Anthropic's Claude Code for production work or for live products…
The Latest: Bondi comes under fire from Congress for unredacted Epstein files
Attorney General Pam Bondi is taking heated questions from lawmakers in a combative congressional hearing over the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that have exposed sensitive private information about victims…
The Latest: Bondi faces questions from Congress over Epstein files
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing questions from lawmakers over the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that have exposed sensitive private information about victims despite redaction efforts. Bondi is confronting a…
The Latest: Trump administration ties El Paso airspace closure to Mexican cartel drones
The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport. The FAA…
The GOP's 'show us your papers' bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a new version of the SAVE Act, a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require…
The Latest: Epstein files hearing gets heated as Congress faults Bondi's meandering answers
Attorney General Pam Bondi is facing questions from lawmakers over the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that have exposed sensitive private information about victims despite redaction efforts. Bondi is confronting a…
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