Onyx Security provides an AI control plane that discovers, monitors, and governs autonomous AI agents across cloud, endpoints, code, and SaaS so enterprises can securely deploy, supervise, and scale large numbers of agents.
Rapid7 Labs identified an active campaign compromising over 250 legitimate WordPress sites across 12 countries, injecting a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA ClickFix lure that tricks Windows users into pasting a PowerShell command that downloads the DoubleDonut shellcode loader, ultimately delivering Vidar Stealer v2, a newly identified .NET stealer dubbed Impure Stealer, and a new campaign-specific C++ stealer named VodkaStealer. The attack chain runs almost entirely in memory, injecting payloads into svchost.exe via VirtualAllocEx and CreateRemoteThread to evade file-based detection, while the ClickFix JavaScript actively filters out WordPress admin cookies, known bot user agents, and wp-admin referrers to avoid tipping off site owners. WordPress administrators should restrict public access to wp-admin, enforce MFA, audit plugins for known-vulnerable versions, and review Rapid7's published YARA rules and IOCs to detect this campaign.
Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz this week, marking the largest acquisition in Google's history and the largest ever of a venture-backed startup. Index Ventures' Shardul Shah, Wiz's largest shareholder, attributes the outcome to the founding team's track record and Wiz's position at the intersection of AI, cloud, and security — the three dominant enterprise spending categories. The deal signals growing consolidation in cloud security, with hyperscalers moving to acquire best-of-breed CSPM platforms rather than build them in-house.
Operation Synergia III, a six-month INTERPOL-coordinated effort spanning 72 countries from July 2025 to January 2026, resulted in the seizure of 45,000 malicious IPs and servers, 94 arrests, 110 suspects under active investigation, and over 200 devices and servers confiscated—doubling the scope of 2024's Synergia II. The targeted infrastructure included phishing sites, ransomware networks, and social engineering operations, with notable actions in Macau (33,000 fraudulent websites identified), Bangladesh (40 arrests), and Togo (dismantling a romance scam and sextortion ring). A separate but concurrent operation by European and US authorities dismantled SocksEscort, a residential proxy network used to launder malicious traffic, seizing 34 domains, 23 servers, and approximately $3.5 million in cryptocurrency.
Hear directly from Cisco threat researchers on how they're implementing advanced threat research by correlating IPS rules to network telemetry, and delivering detection directly to Cisco
Microsoft re-released hotpatch KB5084597 for Windows 11 24H2/25H2 and Enterprise LTSC 2024 to address three RRAS RCE flaws (CVE-2026-25172, CVE-2026-25173, and CVE-2026-26111) that allow a domain-authenticated attacker to trick users into connecting to a malicious server via the RRAS Snap-in.
ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a breach at Telus Digital, alleging theft of up to 1 petabyte of data, including customer support recordings, source code, and employee records with FBI background check results.
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity are now the kick off point for the buying journey, and the leading brands aren't guessing: they're running a system for content structure, refresh cadence, and off-site signals.
AI search engines cite non-paid sources far more than ads. About 94% of AI citations come from non-paid sources and 82% from earned media, with journalism accounting for 20-30%. Gartner predicts PR and earned media budgets will double by 2027 as LLMs replace traditional search discovery. Fresh content matters as over half of citations come from material published in the last 12 months, peaking within the first week. Brands with strong editorial presence and third-party credibility gain the most visibility.
Pet grooming is now treated as a wellness practice. Owners are spending $500 - $11,000 per pet yearly on specialized trims, treatments, and custom meals. Rising costs are also leading some to travel for cheaper services. Pets are seen as family, and care focuses on prevention and routine. The industry is booming alongside human wellness trends and growing recognition of pets as sources of emotional support.
Time-sensitive promotions in Google Ads need specific tactics because the platform decides which ad assets appear. Countdown customizers show the remaining time until an offer ends and create urgency. The countdown can display days and switch to hours and minutes on the final day. Promotion assets add a 25 character line that highlights a discount and can include start and end dates. Callout and sitelink assets can also highlight offers, though too many assets can reduce how often the promotion message appears.
This post shares a Claude skill that automates first-pass QA for lifecycle emails, checking campaigns every 20 minutes or on demand. It reviews proofs in Gmail against 18 criteria, including subject lines, links, legal, and spam signals. Results post to Slack and update Asana subtasks with PASS, WARN, or BLOCK, letting reviewers focus on sign-off instead of auditing. The plugin link is provided in the comments and requires Asana, Slack, Claude Cowork, and Claude in Chrome.
Trust Architecture is a 4-stage framework that audits content based on how it builds trust rather than just engagement. It evaluates posts across credibility and commitment to see whether content actually moves audiences closer to buying. Most brands overproduce recognition content and skip the middle stages where trust is built. The system includes 4 AI prompts that analyze recent posts, diagnose trust gaps, and identify content changes that can improve pipeline.
Reddit now outranks many B2B SaaS vendors in Google results across major keyword categories. It beats competing vendors on 50-66% of shared keywords in three of four SaaS verticals and captures about 950K+ monthly searches before any vendor appears. Most wins come from generic category searches, which drive 77% of its search volume. Reddit also dominates longer queries, winning 73-100% of searches with six or more words. Just five subreddits generate 3,709 keyword rankings and over 1.1M monthly searches.
Brands often react to market shifts by updating their identity or messaging, which can weaken recognition. Burberry illustrates this risk. Years of reinvention diluted its core identity. Uniqlo shows the opposite approach by evolving around a clear idea of LifeWear while maintaining a consistent role in the market. Leaders often default to visible change during uncertainty because it signals action. The strongest brands stay competitive by holding firm to a clear core and allowing thoughtful evolution around it.
Most lead generation campaigns fail because they treat LinkedIn like search. Buyers on LinkedIn are not actively evaluating vendors. They are scrolling through industry content and orienting themselves around problems, which makes demo-first offers a poor match for their mindset. Assets like industry benchmarks and teardown style analyses consistently outperform direct demo requests with cold audiences. Demo offers only perform well after prospects have already interacted with the brand.
Building something that needs search data? SerpApi converts Google, Maps, Shopping, and other search engines into structured APIs. Just a simple GET request.
Meta's new foundational AI model, Avocado, has fallen short on internal tests for reason, coding, and writing. It is not performing as strongly as the leading AI models from rivals like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The model's release will be delayed until at least May while Meta works on improving it. Meta's leaders are already thinking about the next AI model, which will be named Watermelon.
Google Maps has implemented a feature called Ask Maps that helps users plan trips and answers complex questions about locations. Powered by Gemini, it is accessible via a button up near the search bar. It works like a chatbot, so users can send follow-up prompts to refine and expand on its suggestions. Ask Maps is rolling out now in the US and India, but only on Android and iOS. Web support will come later.
Data-first home robot company Sunday Robotics has announced a Series B raise. The company's unique approach claims zero robot data, with a focus on real-world data only. It uses exact duplicates of tools mounted on robot arms to collect all of its robot data while data collectors wear a hat that captures wide field-of-view RGB camera images. The company has developed a glove that allows it to create a distributed network of operators to collect high-quality, diverse data at a massive scale.
Factory-manufactured homes can, in certain cases, yield substantial cost savings over conventional construction. A single-wide manufactured home is probably around 40% to 50% cheaper than an equivalent site-built home. However, these savings quickly disappear with larger and more complex homes. This doesn't mean the industrialization of home building is a doomed enterprise, but it does show how it is an enormously complex problem.
You've built the perfect fine-tuned model - but running it on generic cloud infrastructure, you're going to hit performance bottlenecks. The culprit? Standard infra that wasn't designed for proprietary architectures.
The Perplexity API platform replaces model providers, search layers, and embeddings. It allows developers to swap between the latest frontier models and configure curated presets, tool access, step limits, and token budgets, all from one endpoint. Developers have direct access to the same index that powers Perplexity to call real-time information with citations within apps and agents. They will also have access to the same execution environment that Perplexity uses internally as a standalone service.
Shopify's Liquid is an open-source Ruby template engine somewhat inspired by Django. Its developer found dozens of new performance micro-optimizations using a variant of Andrej Karpathy's Autoresearch, a system that runs hundreds of semi-autonomous experiments to find new effective training techniques. Implementing the optimizations resulted in a 53% improvement on benchmarks, an impressive improvement for a code base that's been tweaked with hundreds of contributors over 20 years. The experiment shows how effective the Autoresearch pattern can be.
The market instability in February was a preview of what it feels like when the increasing ability of AI starts to interact with markets, jobs, and governments all at once. While feelings of uncertainty will likely spread further, uncertainty is not the same as helplessness. The choices that individuals and organizations make now matter because there is still time to influence the direction the technology develops. Every organization trying to figure out a good way to use AI right now is setting a precedent for everyone else.
A huge amount of modern work is already hollow. People sit in meetings that don't matter, produce things that won't last, and perform a version of productivity that everyone silently pretends is real. Most mass layoffs aren't really due to some AI revolution, but because those jobs were already obsolete. AI is bringing in an era where the constraints of work that told us what to do, who to be, and how to spend our days are dissolving. It will take us some time to learn how to deal with this freedom.
As the first engineer on TLDR's new Applied AI team, you'll build AI agents and composable Claude Skills to let non-technical teammates create their own AI workflows. Learn more [15].
This post describes a vibe coding system that uses types as specifications, which forces compilers to reject code until they can produce a valid proof that the output satisfies the specification.
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Elon Musk just pulled two of Cursor's product leaders into a $1.25 trillion company and told them to build xAI's coding product. AI coding is now a $5 billion+ market. xAI is the only frontier lab without a coding product printing money. AI labs have figured out that developers are the highest-willingness-to-pay users on the planet.
A beta version of Imagine with Claude is coming to Claude Chat. The feature can create custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations, and then tweak and modify its creations as the conversation develops. The feature will be on by default, with Claude deciding when to build a visual for something. Users can directly request a visual. Videos showing example visualizations are available in the article.
Meta's Avocado model outperforms the company's previous model and the Google Gemini 2.5 model from March, but it doesn't perform as strongly against leading models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The company has decided to delay the model's release to at least May. Experts believe Meta still has time to catch up to rivals. The company's Llama 4 release fell short of expectations last year.
Axiom raised a $200M Series A at a $1.6B valuation led by Menlo Ventures, one year after founding and with roughly 20 employees, to build what it calls Verified AI: systems that produce formally verified outputs in the programming language Lean, where every reasoning step is machine-checkable, and errors are caught deterministically rather than statistically. The company originally trained on math proofs and then transferred that skill to code verification, a technique that lets it prove not only that code produces correct outputs but also that it won't create unexpected attack surfaces.