Poppy debuts proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Smartphones can be distracting with a dizzying number of apps and a constant stream of notifications. A new app called Poppy aims to clean up the clutter by consolidating your calendar, email, messages, and other sources into one dashboard. The idea, according to the company’s website, is that “Poppy takes care of you, so you […]
Azerbaijani energy company falls victim to repeated Microsoft Exchange exploits
Rabi LakshmananMay 13, 2026Cyber espionage/malware Chinese-linked attackers were involved in “multi-wave intrusions” targeting unnamed oil and gas companies in Azerbaijan from late December 2025 to late February 2026, indicating an expansion of their targeting. Bitdefender has moderate to high confidence that this activity is the work of the hacker group known as FamousSparrow (also known […]
Adaptation hits big goals with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models self-train
AI researchers have long anticipated the moment when AI systems will be able to self-improve better than humans. As investors pour money into a new generation of research-driven AI labs, more resources than ever are available to pursue your goals. Now, one of those neolabs has taken a big step toward making that a reality. […]
[Webinar] Why AppSec tools miss “fatal paths” (and how to fix them)
hacker newsMay 13, 2026AppSec / Webinar TL;DR: Stop chasing thousands of “toast” alerts. Join Wiz and the Okta/GitLab experts to learn how hackers link small flaws to create “deadly chains” in your data and how to break them. Sign up for strategic briefings here. Most security tools work like a smoke alarm that goes off […]
Most repair programs never confirm that the fix actually worked
hacker newsMay 13, 2026Cloud security/automation Security teams have never had greater visibility into their environments, and it has never been more difficult to ensure that what they fix stays fixed. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report estimates the average usage time to be -7 days. Verizon 2025 DBIR states that the median time to remediate vulnerabilities on […]
Microsoft patches 138 vulnerabilities, including DNS and Netlogon RCE flaws
Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 138 security vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, but none are listed as publicly known or under active attack. Of the 138 defects, 30 were rated critical, 104 were rated important, 3 were rated moderate, and 1 was rated low. As many as 61 vulnerabilities were categorized as privilege elevation […]
GemStuffer exploits over 150 RubyGems to leak scraped UK council portal data
Ravi LakshmananMay 13, 2026Software supply chain/data breach Cybersecurity researchers are warning people of a new campaign called GemStuffer. This campaign targets the RubyGems repository, which contains over 150 gems, and uses the registry as a data exfiltration channel rather than malware distribution. “The package does not appear to be designed to compromise large-scale developers,” Socket […]
Android adds intrusion logging for advanced spyware forensics
Google on Tuesday announced a new opt-in Android feature called Intrusion Logs to store forensic logs to better analyze advanced spyware attacks. Intrusion logging, available as part of Advanced Protection Mode, “enables persistent privacy-preserving forensic logging and allows devices to be investigated in case of a suspected breach,” the company said. It added that the […]
Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, but most in the tech industry don’t know it
Neil Batrivala spent seven years building a healthcare company that serves a patient population that most in the tech industry have never heard of and that most in Silicon Valley ignore. But last month, that job put him at the center of something much bigger. His company, Pear Team, announced on April 30 that it […]
Former Tesla executive and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino launches heat pump startup
Former Tesla executive Drew Baglino secretly founded a heat pump startup, TechCrunch has learned. This is the second company Baglino has founded in the two years since leaving Tesla. Sources have confirmed the existence of a startup called Sadi Thermal Machines, and TechCrunch reviewed the company’s filings in Delaware and California. Sadie was founded in […]