El Nino could arrive by May, new forecast reveals – what this means for summer weather
El Nino is expected to return as early as May, according to a new report, which could bring above-normal temperatures to nearly every region of the planet. El Niño events occur every two to seven years as part of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) natural climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean. The ENSO cycle […]
Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps
Yet another government-backed spyware maker has been arrested after its customers used fake Android apps to install surveillance software on its targets, according to a new report. On Thursday, Osservatorio Nessuno, an Italian digital rights organization that studies spyware, published a report on a new piece of malware called Morpheus. This spyware disguises itself as […]
NASA employees fall for Chinese phishing scam targeting US defense software
Ravi LakshmananApril 24, 2026Espionage/National Security; NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has revealed how Chinese nationals posed as U.S. researchers as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from space agencies, government agencies, universities, and private companies in violation of export control laws. “For years, NASA employees and research collaborators believed they were […]
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins StrictlyVC SF
surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which kicks off this year’s TechCrunch event lineup on April 30th at the Centro Philippine Cultural Center, is adding new participants to its ever-growing roster of speakers. Praveen Neppalli Naga, CTO of Uber, joins us to discuss operating at scale in the age of, you guessed it, AI. However, you’ll need […]
DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘bridges the gap’ with frontier models
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released two preview versions of its latest large-scale language model, DeepSeek V4. This is a long-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 inference model that took the AI world by storm. According to the company, both DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are expert mixed models […]
Claude Mythos explained: Is Anthropic’s most powerful AI model really too dangerous to release to the public?
Anthropic’s announcement of the Claude Mythos Preview model alongside Project Glasswing has sparked widespread scrutiny as experts warn that the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems could accelerate the discovery and exploitation of software vulnerabilities. Anthropic has locked Mythos within Project Glasswing, restricting access to a small group of large technology companies focused on cybersecurity […]
In yet another big development for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Amazon has pulled off a major coup with Meta thanks to Amazon’s own chip. Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon announced Friday. Note that AWS Graviton is not a GPU (graphics processing unit), but an ARM-based CPU (central processing unit, a chip […]
Continuous observability as a decision engine
The AI agent authority gap – from non-governance to delegation As we discussed in a previous article, AI agents are exposing structural gaps in enterprise security, but the problem is often viewed very narrowly. The problem is not simply that agents are new subjects. That means agents are delegated actors. They do not emerge with […]
26 FakeWallet apps targeting crypto seed phrases found in Apple App Store
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a series of malicious apps in the Apple App Store that impersonate popular cryptocurrency wallets and attempt to steal recovery phrases and private keys since at least the fall of 2025. “When launched, these apps redirect users to a browser page that resembles the App Store and distribute Trojanized versions of […]
Native American DNA reveals how natural selection influenced people who migrated to Earth’s ‘final frontier’
Humans migrated to South America in three distinct waves over thousands of years, a new large-scale analysis of Native American DNA reveals. The researchers also found that genes related to fertility, metabolism and immune responses help people adapt to their unique environments on the “last frontier” of human migration, the researchers said. In a study […]
