TeamPCP’s Mini Shai-Hulud worm compromised 170+ npm and PyPI packages including TanStack, Mistral AI, and UiPath in just 6 minutes — stealing credentials, self-propagating, and wiping drives if you revoke the stolen tokens.
A Gallup poll found 71% of U.S. adults oppose AI data centers near their homes. As AI companies race to build compute infrastructure, community opposition is becoming a major obstacle.
OpenAI launched Codex on iOS/Android for remote coding supervision, a personal finance dashboard in ChatGPT, and confirmed merging ChatGPT+Codex+Atlas into one super app.
Microsoft detected 8.3 billion phishing threats in Q1 2026. QR code phishing surged 146% as attackers use images to bypass email security and move victims to unprotected mobile devices.
NGINX Rift (CVE-2026-42945) is a critical 9.2 CVSS heap buffer overflow enabling unauthenticated RCE on NGINX servers. Present since 2008, found by AI, and now actively exploited — patch immediately.
ShinyHunters breached Instructure’s Canvas LMS affecting 8,800+ institutions and 275 million people. Instructure paid the ransom — a decision cybersecurity experts say is catastrophic for the entire EdTech sector.
Martha Stewart co-founded Hint, an AI home management startup backed by Slow Ventures with $10M in seed funding. The platform ingests home documents and proactively alerts owners before things break. A $500B market, almost no competition.
Parallel Web Systems, founded by ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, hit a $2B valuation after a $100M Sequoia-led Series B. The company builds search APIs for AI agents and has 100,000 developers. Almost nobody is talking about it.
Microsoft confirmed CVE-2026-42897, an actively exploited Exchange Server zero-day that lets attackers execute JavaScript by sending a crafted email. All on-prem Exchange versions affected. CISA deadline: May 29.
Iran’s IRGC-linked media is pushing a plan to charge transit fees on undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz — cables carrying 20% of global internet traffic and $10 trillion in daily financial transactions.
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