Why you need to exchange passwords and passphrases
October 22, 2025hacker newsData Breach/Enterprise Security This advice hasn’t changed for decades. Use a complex password that includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make it difficult for hackers to crack passwords using brute force techniques. However, more recent guidance indicates that the focus should be on password length rather […]
Researchers use Neursite and NeuralExecutor malware to identify PassiveNeuron APT
October 22, 2025Ravi LakshmananCyber espionage / network security Government, financial, and industrial organizations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are being targeted by a new campaign called “PassiveNeuron,” according to Kaspersky Lab’s findings. The cyber espionage campaign was first flagged by a Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, and in June revealed a series of […]
Async-Tar Rust library TARmageddon flaw could allow remote code execution
October 22, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a high-severity flaw affecting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar. This flaw could allow remote code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), was codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in late August 2025. This […]
TP-Link patches four flaws in Omada gateway, two of which could lead to remote code execution
October 22, 2025Ravi LakshmananVulnerability/Network Security TP-Link has released a security update that addresses four security flaws affecting Omada Gateway devices, including two critical bugs that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The vulnerabilities in question are as follows. CVE-2025-6541 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Operating system command injection vulnerability. It could be exploited by […]
James Webb telescope reveals chaotic surprises of the early universe
Just like the infants of the universe, galaxies in the young universe were messy and difficult to settle down, a new study shows. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have observed more than 250 galaxies in the early universe. The researchers charted the movement of gas long ago when the universe was […]
Netflix goes “all in” on generative AI as entertainment industry continues to be fragmented
As the entertainment industry considers when and how to use generative AI in filmmaking, Netflix is leaning in. In its quarterly earnings report released Tuesday afternoon, Netflix said in a letter to investors that it is “very well positioned to effectively leverage ongoing advances in AI.” Although Netflix has no plans to use generative AI […]
Open source agent startup LangChain reaches $1.25 billion valuation
LangChain has raised $125 million at a valuation of $1.25 billion, the company announced on Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents was raising new funding at a valuation of at least $1 billion. As previously reported, the transaction was led by IVP. New […]
Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founder, raises $250 million and launches beta
Sesame, a conversational AI startup and smart glasses maker, announced Tuesday that it has raised $250 million in a Series B round and will open a beta version to a select group of testers. The startup, led by former Oculus co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe and Ankit Kumar, former CTO of AR startup Ubiquity6, is […]
OpenAI’s new browser is an all-out attack on Google
Today, OpenAI announced its new Atlas web browser in a surprise livestream. The show began with CEO Sam Altman himself speaking directly to the audience. “We believe AI is a once-in-a-decade opportunity to reimagine what a browser is,” said Altman. “Just as the URL bar and search box were great analogs for the way we […]
Source: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai has already raised a valuation of over $4 billion
Fal.ai, a startup that hosts image, video and audio AI models for developers, has closed on a new round of funding that values the company at more than $4 billion, four people familiar with the deal said. The company has raised about $250 million, according to two people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins and […]