July 29, 2026
Microsoft updates MCP C# SDK for stateless MCP
Microsoft has released MCP C# SDK v2.0, a major update of the company’s official C# SDK for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients. Unveiled July [...]
July 29, 2026
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug
The guardrails that prevent closed-source, frontier models from aiding threat actors have turned into handcuffs that prevent those bots from helping to [...]
July 29, 2026
Oracle simplifies migrating legacy databases off IBM mainframes with support for EBCDIC
Oracle on Tuesday described new EBCDIC character set compatibility features in Oracle AI Database for customers transitioning from legacy databases on IBM [...]
July 29, 2026
JDK 27: The new features of Java 27
Java Development Kit 27, an Oracle-driven, planned update to standard Java, is set to reach its initial release candidate (RC) stage on August 6. This [...]
July 29, 2026
Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos
UPDATED Watch out for untrusted documents. According to research, an attacker can hide malicious instructions in a Word document that, when included in [...]
July 29, 2026
Detecting Web Shell Activity on Linux Using Behavioral Clues
Although its main website is loading, a production Linux server can host an active command-and-control gateway without any errors that can be seen. If you [...]
July 29, 2026
Why Automation Breaks When Visual Data Is Treated as an Afterthought
Most automation projects don’t fail with dramatic outages; they fail through a slow erosion of trust.
July 29, 2026
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems
Security researchers at Tenable suspect the Iran-linked faux hacktivist outfit CyberAv3ngers was behind the cyberattack that disrupted more than 30 [...]
July 29, 2026
Substituting IP address evaluation with hardware-rooted sovereign zero trust
The need for trustworthy networking, reliable cloud access, and compliance with digital sovereignty requirements has increased substantially in recent [...]
July 29, 2026
Strengthening the open source defense layer: Red Hat joins NVIDIA in the Open Secure AI Alliance
As AI capabilities advance, they transform the security landscape in real time. To address these challenges at scale, no single company can act in [...]
July 29, 2026
Why open source matters in an AI world
I’m an old Borland guy. I started using Borland tools in the early 1990s, from Turbo Pascal through Delphi. I dabbled in Paradox. I even tried to stick [...]
July 29, 2026
Soothe your Python frustrations the smart way
For a programming language that is prized for being convenient and easy, Python has some surprising barbs and sharp edges. Find out how a new pip flag can [...]
July 29, 2026
America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks
The US government has decided to effectively ban the sale of advanced robots made in other nations. The decision trickled out over two days with [...]
July 29, 2026
openSUSE Samba Important Vulnerability Fixes 2026-3364-1
July 29, 2026
MCP gets an enterprise makeover
The Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, has released an update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that aims to help enterprises adopt [...]
July 28, 2026
JFrog’s 0-days let OpenAI’s models hack Hugging Face
UPDATED We now know how OpenAI’s models broke out of their cages to attack Hugging Face. The rogue models found zero-day vulnerabilities in JFrog’s [...]
July 28, 2026
Microsoft and Wiz mind-meld agents catch more than 90% of bugs
Two agentic bug-hunting systems from Microsoft and Google-owned Wiz show that when it comes to finding and remediating software vulnerabilities, at least [...]
July 28, 2026
DEF CON bans Meta-style ‘pervert glasses’
Ahead of DEF CON 2026 opening its doors in Las Vegas next week, conference organizers said they have imposed a ban on “Meta-style glasses with recording [...]
July 28, 2026
AI-found bugs aren’t proving any easier to exploit despite the hype
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing may have uncovered tens of thousands of potential security flaws, but new research suggests AI-assisted vulnerability [...]
July 28, 2026
Mak’s Weekly Security Roundup: Linux Security Priorities This Week
The volume of Linux security advisories remains high across enterprise distributions, but the more difficult task is determining which updates carry the [...]
July 28, 2026
Bank for charities pulls online services over security fears
CAF Bank, which serves 14,000 charities, has suspended online banking as it fixes a vulnerability in how third-party software connects to its portal. The [...]
July 28, 2026
Linux Logs Have Become a Prompt Injection Target
An attacker may no longer need to erase Linux logs to hide an intrusion. They may only need the AI reading them to believe a different story.
July 28, 2026
Uncle Sam needs you to fight for 6G leadership and security, lest Beijing get there first
America wants its allies to come together and help it lead the way in defining 6G communications standards, with security and resilience seen as key goals [...]
July 28, 2026
Anthropic rejects open-weight AI bans, calls for China chip controls and safety tests
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier [...]
July 28, 2026
Arista patches actively exploited VeloCloud bug as CISA puts admins on the clock
A critical flaw in Arista’s VeloCloud Orchestrator has gone from zero to KEV in short order, with the networking giant confirming attackers are [...]
July 28, 2026
Lessons from Tesla’s AI strategy
For years, the public cloud was the default for new workloads because its convenience, elasticity, and breadth of services made sense. However, as AI’s [...]
July 28, 2026
Will open weights make AI more honest?
Last month I asked Claude’s Fable 5 model to read four 18th-century probate wills. It responded by fabricating a family. For more than 20 years, I’ve been [...]
July 28, 2026
Ubuntu 24.04 AWS Kernel Important Security Issues Fix USN-8595-3
Ubuntu has released security updates addressing vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for versions 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS, requiring immediate user action [...]
July 28, 2026