The Hacker News

⚡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More

Stay ahead of the logs with our Monday Recap. We break down active Adobe 0-days, North Korean crypto stings, and critical CVEs you need to patch today ...

OpenAI identifies security issue involving third-party tool, says user data was not accessed

OpenAI said on Friday it had identified a security issue involving a third-party developer tool called ​Axios and is taking ...

FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages

The FBI was able to recover deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting data stored in the device’s notification ...

How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages From a Defendant's iPhone

The FBI was able to pull Signal messages from a defendant's iPhone—even though that user had deleted the app. Here's how they ...
The Hacker News

⚡ Weekly Recap: Axios Hack, Chrome 0-Day, Fortinet Exploits, Paragon Spyware and More

Phishing surge, LinkedIn tracking claims, spyware use, and rising stealers expose growing abuse of trusted systems.
New Scientist

Start-up is building the first data centre to use human brain cells

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...
KCBD

Data center developers promise to be ‘good neighbors’ in Abernathy

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Residents and area property owners gathered Thursday night to question the impact of a planned data center off Interstate 27 and FM 54 north of Abernathy. The developer, ...
CSOonline

‘Silent’ Google API key change exposed Gemini AI data

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...
Bleeping Computer

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...
WDBJ

Google Data Center’s expected water use made public

BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - The Western Virginia Water Authority this week released records detailing Google’s projected water use at a planned data center in Botetourt County, following a ...
SiliconANGLE

Sauce Labs launches ‘programmable infrastructure’ for mobile testing with Real Device Access API

Sauce Labs Inc., a continuous testing solutions provider, today announced the general availability of its Real Device Access API, changing how the company delivers mobile testing infrastructure and ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...