America’s largest power grid is under strain from AI – and no one is happy
PJM interconnection is disappointing. For decades, grid operators worked quietly behind the scenes to match power demand with supply. Meanwhile, customers enjoyed some of the lowest electricity rates in the United States. no longer. Politicians, businesses, households, and power companies believe that a review is necessary. PJM agrees. PJM said in a white paper released […]
Airbnb announces 60% of new code is now written by AI
A large part of Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call was dedicated to talking about how the company uses AI tools for coding, customer support, and search. Notably, the company claimed that 60% of the code its engineers created in the quarter was written by AI. This echoes comments from other companies such as Google, Microsoft, […]
Quasar Linux RAT steals developer credentials in software supply chain compromise
Ravi LakshmananMay 8, 2026Linux/DevOps The previously undocumented Linux implant, codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX), targets developers’ systems to not only establish a silent foothold, but also facilitate a wide range of post-compromise functions, including credential harvesting, keylogging, file manipulation, clipboard monitoring, and network tunneling. “QLNX targets developers and DevOps credentials across the software supply chain,” […]
What 25 million alerts reveal about low-severity risks
The dark secret of corporate security operations is that defenders have quietly institutionalized the habit of not looking. This is not just an anecdote, but is backed up by a recent report that examined over 25 million security alerts, including informational and low-severity alerts, across real-world enterprise environments. The dataset behind these findings includes telemetry […]
New Linux PamDOORa backdoor uses PAM module to steal SSH credentials
Rabi LakshmananMay 8, 2026Malware/Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details of a new Linux backdoor named PamDOORa that is being advertised on the Rehub Russian cybercrime forum for $1,600 by a threat actor called “darkworm.” The backdoor is designed as a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)-based post-exploitation toolkit that allows persistent SSH access through a combination […]
Linux kernel dirty flag LPE exploit allows root access across major distributions
Rabi LakshmananMay 8, 2026Linux / Vulnerabilities Details have emerged about a new unpatched local privilege elevation (LPE) vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel. The vulnerability, known as Dirty Frag, is said to be a successor to Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431, CVSS score: 7.8), a recently disclosed LPE flaw affecting the Linux kernel that has since been exploited […]
Why my doctor won’t call me back
Many conversations about AI in healthcare focus on diagnostics, drug discovery, or doctor-patient visits. But a less visible part of the system influences whether patients actually get seen, and it has less to do with the number of doctors in the world (too few) than with the paperwork involved between a primary care physician writing […]
Hacker claims to have hacked another organization and defaces school login page
On Tuesday, education technology giant Instructure disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole personal information such as students’ names, personal email addresses, and messages sent and received between teachers and students. Well, it looks like hackers have managed to compromise Instructural again. This time, they defaced several schools’ login pages for Canvas, the company’s […]
Elon Musk’s lawsuit exposes OpenAI’s safety record
Elon Musk’s legal efforts to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its commercial subsidiary strengthens or undermines Frontier Labs’ founding mission to ensure humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. On Thursday, a federal court in Oakland, California, heard testimony from former employees and directors who said the company’s efforts to push AI products to market […]
Bumble is eliminating swipes, CEO says
Will dating app malaise finally end swiping? At least that seems to be the case with Bumble. In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd confirmed that Bumble is doing away with swiping, a signature feature of dating apps in the 2010s. “We’re saying goodbye to Swipe and saying hello to […]