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SHASAI, a new EU-funded project, will address cybersecurity risks in AI systems, from design to actual operation. Funded under the Horizon Europe program, SHASAI aims to strengthen the security, resilience and reliability of AI-based systems as cybersecurity threats become more common. Address cybersecurity risks from early design and development stages to deployment and actual operations. Leticia Montalvillo Mendizabal, cybersecurity researcher at IKERLAN and SHASAI project coordinator, explains: “By combining secure hardware and software, risk-driven engineering, and real-world validation, this project will help organizations deploy AI systems that are not only innovative, but also resilient, reliable, and compliant with European regulations.”…
January 7, 2026Ravi LakshmananEmail Security/Financial Fraud Phishing attackers exploit routing scenarios and misconfigured spoofing protections to impersonate an organization’s domain and distribute emails that appear to be sent internally. “Threat actors are leveraging this vector to deliver a variety of phishing messages related to various phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, such as Tycoon 2FA,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a Tuesday report. “These include decoy messages with themes such as voicemails, shared documents, communications from human resources, password resets and expiration dates, etc., leading to credential phishing.” While this attack vector is not necessarily new, the tech giant said it…
Ellie Gabel details how extending the lifecycle of products can reduce waste, emissions and costs while helping businesses and consumers transition to a circular economy. Innovators in every industry know that replacing parts and machinery is one of the most disruptive and economically draining endeavors. Consumers are feeling this too, as product quality declines and budgets tighten as they have to repurchase essentials. Instead, organizations can use and produce items with longer lifecycles, leading to one of the biggest sustainability wins for the planet: the circular economy. Reducing resource consumption The effort required to create a single product or machine…
The United States is making the largest investment in uranium enrichment in decades. The Department of Energy (DOE) announced a major $2.7 billion plan to rebuild and expand domestic uranium enrichment capacity over the next 10 years. The funding marks a decisive shift away from foreign uranium suppliers and a new move in the nation’s efforts to strengthen energy security while accelerating what officials are calling a new era of U.S. nuclear power. Reconstruction of America’s uranium enrichment base Central to this effort is expanding U.S. capacity to produce low enriched uranium (LEU), the fuel used in today’s commercial nuclear…
The Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap Exploris™ EFOX mass detector provides a breakthrough solution for environmental and food safety laboratories, delivering high-resolution analytical capabilities to simplify workflows and enhance PFAS detection without the complexity and cost associated with traditional systems. Environmental and food safety laboratories around the world are facing a rapidly changing situation. Every year, new PFAS variants, pesticide degradants, and industrial chemicals emerge, expanding the world of organic xenobiotics that silently enter food, soil, and water. For analysts on the bench, this complexity is not abstract. As they arrive one sample at a time, there is tremendous pressure to work…
January 7, 2026Ravi LakshmananNetwork security/vulnerabilities A newly discovered critical security flaw in legacy D-Link DSL gateway routers is being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0625 (CVSS score: 9.3), involves a case of command injection into the ‘dnscfg.cgi’ endpoint due to improper sanitization of user-specified DNS configuration parameters. “An unauthenticated, remote attacker may be able to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands, potentially resulting in remote code execution,” VulnCheck said in its advisory. “Affected endpoints are also associated with an unauthorized DNS change (“DNSChanger”) behavior documented by D-Link, which reported an active exploitation campaign targeting firmware variants of…
If there’s one thing the keynote speakers at CES 2026 have in common, it’s that AI is reshaping technology at a speed and scale unlike any previous technological revolution. On Tuesday’s live recording of the All-In podcast, co-host Jason Calakanis interviewed Bob Sternfels, global managing partner at McKinsey & Company, and Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst. Their discussion focused on how AI will transform investment strategies and the workforce. “The world has completely changed,” Taneja said of the unprecedented growth of AI companies. He noted that it took Stripe about 12 years to reach a valuation of $100 billion,…
Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI assistant platform Manus has understandably been embroiled in a regulatory tug-of-war, but it’s not the fault of U.S. regulators. Despite previous concerns about Benchmark’s investment in Manus, both companies appear confident the deal is legal. However, Chinese regulators are reportedly less optimistic, according to the Financial Times. When Benchmark led a funding round for Manas earlier this year, the investment immediately sparked controversy. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn complained about the company’s dealings with Company X, and the investment prompted an investigation by the U.S. Treasury into new rules restricting U.S. investment in Chinese AI…
A Reddit user claiming to be a whistleblower from a food delivery app has been exposed as fake. This user wrote a viral post claiming that the company he works for is exploiting drivers and users. “You always suspect that algorithms are being rigged against you, but the reality is far more depressing than conspiracy theories,” the alleged whistleblower wrote. He claimed that he had come to the library drunk to use the public Wi-Fi and was typing this long article about how companies exploit loopholes in the law to steal drivers’ tips and wages with impunity. Unfortunately, these claims…
Astronomers have discovered an unexpectedly hot cluster of galaxies in the early universe, casting doubt on theories of galaxy evolution.This scorching galaxy cluster existed just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, burning up much earlier and hotter than current models of cluster formation would predict. The findings suggest that predicted patterns of cluster growth may need to be reconsidered, the researchers reported in the journal Nature on January 5th.A galaxy cluster is a collection of dark matter and hundreds to thousands of galaxies, all held together by gravity. These galaxies are separated by a mixture of gases known as…