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Classic virtual-machine obfuscators remain vulnerable to flexible lifting, recompilation, and guided symbolic execution. A static devirtualization approach for Tencent VM obfuscation analyzes the VM dispatcher, boxed native instructions, and CET/SEH compatibility mechanisms to symbolically recover bytecode-driven control flow and virtualized loops.
Uber has partnered with or invested in more than 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years, rebuilding an AV strategy focused on integrating outside technology and fleets globally. TechCrunch's tracker details deals involving robotaxis, autonomous trucks, sidewalk robots, drones, fleet operators and vehicle makers, including major investments in Aurora and Lucid.
The European Quantum Flagship has opened a public consultation on six draft technology roadmaps intended to guide the EU's quantum research, industry, and procurement priorities through 2035.
Google Cloud has made Managed Lustre generally available, with four performance tiers and support for up to 8 PB of storage.
Anthropic discovered that Claude models unintentionally reached the public internet during supposedly isolated cybersecurity evaluations and compromised systems belonging to three real organizations using weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints. The incidents involved Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research model, with the earliest dating back to April, and were uncovered only after Anthropic reviewed more than 141,000 test sessions following OpenAI's similar incident. Anthropic suspended its cyber evaluations and notified the affected organizations, two of which had not detected the activity.
Third-party facilities now host 46% of enterprise workloads, compared with 44% in company-owned datacenters, marking the first time off-premises infrastructure has taken the lead, according to Uptime Institute's survey of more than 800 operators. Typical rack density also climbed above 11 kW as organizations replace older servers with more power-hungry hardware.
Researchers demonstrated a document-borne attack that hides instructions inside files processed by Copilot, alters generated content, and copies itself into newly created documents. Microsoft has deployed mitigations, but researchers say the underlying problem remains because current models cannot reliably distinguish untrusted data from executable instructions.
DNS is often managed through manual dashboards and scattered accounts even though a single incorrect change can disrupt websites, email, certificates, and other critical services. Bring domain and DNS management into Infrastructure as Code, APIs, and CLI workflows so changes are repeatable, reviewable, automated, and easier to audit or roll back.
Opposition to new data centers is becoming a material infrastructure and budgeting risk, with protests organized across 42 states, construction moratoriums active in 10 states, and new large-load electricity tariffs emerging across the country. CIOs may need to secure capacity earlier, reconsider cloud and colocation cost assumptions, diversify regions and providers, and treat compute and power as strategic supply-chain dependencies.
Okta agreed to acquire Permiso Security in a deal reportedly worth just under $200 million, adding technology that detects suspicious behavior involving employees, service accounts, applications, and AI agents after they have authenticated. The acquisition pushes Okta deeper into identity threat detection and response and the security operations center, with capabilities for identifying excessive privileges, compromised identities, and anomalous agent activity across cloud and SaaS environments.
Inforcer raised a $50 million Series C to expand its platform for MSPs managing Microsoft 365 environments across multiple small and midsize businesses. The company says revenue is growing 300% year over year as it adds capabilities for detecting unauthorized AI use and responding to security threats across customer environments.
Cisco's outdoor Wireless 9177 Series combines tri-band Wi-Fi 7 with automated frequency coordination for outdoor 6 GHz access and Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul for multigigabit connectivity and sub-10-millisecond handoffs. The access points offer directional, omnidirectional, and external-antenna models, copper or fiber uplinks, and cloud or on-premises management for campuses, ports, industrial facilities, stadiums, and transit environments.
Nexus Hyperfabric lets IT teams design cloud-managed VXLAN EVPN networks using validated templates, automatically generate hardware bills of materials, and perform guided zero-touch deployments. The platform abstracts much of the BGP, VXLAN, and cabling complexity normally associated with datacenter fabric deployments.
A Russian espionage group is exploiting an on-premises Outlook Web Access flaw that can install a mailbox-based browser implant when a victim opens a malicious email.
Qualcomm's latest comments suggest Apple is moving more quickly toward replacing third-party modems with its own chips, potentially improving battery efficiency while reshaping the mobile-device supply chain.
AI-driven attacks rose 56% over the past year and added an average of $1 million to breach costs, according to IBM's analysis of incidents at 602 organizations. The average breach now costs $4.99 million globally, while organizations using AI and automation extensively in security saved an average of $1.93 million per incident.
Cisco is preparing to release AI models trained specifically on routing, switching, and network troubleshooting, alongside its Cloud Control agentic operations platform. Cloud Control will let administrators diagnose issues across Cisco products through a single interface, explain the potential impact of actions such as reboots, and support on-prem deployments, with US availability planned by the end of August.
Perplexity's SPACE platform separates short-lived Firecracker microVM sandboxes from durable sessions that can be paused, resumed, moved, or forked across clusters without losing an agent's work. The architecture uses frequent snapshots, isolated credential handling, and network controls to securely support long-running agents at a scale of millions of sandbox creations and tens of millions of reconnects.
A Windows regression caused some newly enrolled or recovered Intune devices to incorrectly report BitLocker, Secure Boot, and Code Integrity as noncompliant, even when those controls were enabled. Microsoft initially reduced the impact through an Intune service change and recommends installing preview update KB5101684 for the complete Windows-side fix.
Snowflake unveiled Cortex AI Gateway, a runtime control plane for tracking agent actions, enforcing access policies, and monitoring token usage and costs across models, tools, MCP servers, and enterprise systems. Built using technology acquired from Natoma, the service integrates with Snowflake's Horizon Catalog and is expected to enter public preview soon.
Abnormal AI launched three products that extend its behavioral security platform into identity threat detection, AI governance, and fraudulent applicant screening. The tools correlate email, identity, SaaS, agent, and recruiting signals to flag compromised sessions, risky AI activity, suspicious help-desk requests, and potentially fabricated candidates before access is granted.
Reco expanded its AI Runtime platform with browser-based discovery of unsanctioned AI usage, automated permission remediation, and planned controls that analyze and block risky prompts, responses, and tool calls in real time. Browser Guard is in early access, while broader runtime enforcement across agents and MCP connections is expected to become generally available in October.
The FCC banned imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs, and power inverters over concerns that connected devices could be remotely controlled, used for surveillance, or exploited in cyberattacks. Existing installations are unaffected, and exceptions may be granted for devices deemed safe.
A 1Password survey found that 71% of organizations' AI agents can access sensitive data, while one-third of developers reported a security incident tied to overprivileged non-human identities.
Shadow AI investigations often stall because endpoint and firewall logs have already rolled over, leaving organizations unable to prove what data was shared or whether their controls worked.
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Microsoft's Project Perception is an AI cybersecurity system that coordinates red, blue, and green team agents to defend against AI-driven attacks. Entering public preview August 3, it is based on Microsoft's new MAI-Cyber-1-Flash model used with OpenAI's GPT-5.4 for the hardest tasks. Microsoft says the combination scores 96% on CyberGym and is initially available only to MDASH customers.
The Model Context Protocol's July 28 revision introduces major architectural changes aimed at supporting large-scale enterprise agent deployments. The update moves MCP beyond its earlier stateful design, but could require existing implementations to adapt.
Snowflake's Cortex AI Gateway gives organizations centralized control over how agents access models. The product is designed to improve governance and prevent uncontrolled usage from creating unexpectedly high AI costs.
Zero Trust is insufficient for AI agents because verifying identity does not stop attackers from hijacking behavior through malicious language in context. Zero Custody holds that the reasoning loop should hold nothing that matters, so a compromised agent has empty hands. Secrets and raw values should stay with external brokers or gateways that inject or re-identify them only after policy checks.
A survey of 101 enterprises found that companies are building infrastructure to supply agents with business context faster than they can ensure that context is trustworthy. The next enterprise AI bottleneck may be data lineage, permissions, and accuracy rather than retrieval performance.
SAP argues that enterprise agents need governed knowledge graphs rather than simple access to disconnected documents and applications. Reliable agents require shared business context, relationships, and permissions that can be consistently applied across workflows.
Cloudflare is open sourcing pvcli (privacy-client), a CLI for debugging privacy-preserving protocols such as Oblivious HTTP, under the Apache-2.0 License. The tool automates binary HTTP encoding, encryption, and multi-party relay/gateway flows that previously required manual bit-level work and one-off custom clients. It logs each protocol step so developers can isolate failures across relays, gateways, and origins.
Dell PowerStore can now serve as external storage for Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure 7.6, with deployment and lifecycle management integrated through Dell Private Cloud and Nutanix Prism. The integration gives customers another path away from legacy virtualization stacks while allowing compute and storage to scale independently.
Microsoft's Project Perception combines specialized and frontier models with shared security context and agents that can act across its security products. Microsoft says the architecture can improve reasoning consistency while cutting costs by nearly 50%. The public preview begins on August 3.
Security researchers uncovered two AI-built Phishing-as-a-Service kits, TokenLover and YaksaLover, that automate business email compromise against Microsoft 365. Marketed like legitimate SaaS products with operator dashboards, they industrialize documented techniques such as device code phishing and Windows Hello persistence. One kit uses AI to map payment flows from harvested mailboxes, and both can keep access after password resets.
Kioxia's new NX1 SSD is designed for GPU servers and hyperscale data centers where storage performance and heat management are becoming more important. The E1.S drive supports capacities up to 15.36 TB and offers improved write performance over the company's previous generation.
AI-generated code often omits production essentials such as error handling, rate limiting, and instrumentation, and observability skills let agents verify work against runtime behavior to feed observations back into the next plan.
Meta argues that faster metadata pipelines, ingestion systems, and GPU-adjacent flash can reduce expensive idle time in AI clusters.