Broadcom Warns of High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer
VMware Avi Load Balancer flaw (CVE-2025-22217, CVSS 8.6) enables unauthenticated SQL injection. No workarounds exist—Broadcom urges immediate patching
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AI startup DeepSeek facing hack, blocks questions about CCP
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is facing a cyberattack that has disrupted services while its chatbot declines to discuss political topics that are critical or sensitive for the CCP.
Marc Benioff ‘Jokes’ ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media has learned. Multiple employees told 404 Media about the joke, and 404 Media obtained internal Slack chats showing employees discussing…
Behind the Blog: Making Things for Humans
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Pavlovian Chartbeat response, when to say “cum,” and the wave of making things for humans, by humans. JOSEPH: Right now I’m in the midst of upgrading a…
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. “What I know is that I wrote those articles. Long Bets, Constitutional AI, Scalable Oversight. I chose them. The edits cited verifiable sources. And then…
Sophos named a Leader in the KuppingerCole 2025 Leadership Compass for Email Security
A milestone that reflects our constant progress in email security.
Podcast: The Life Changing Power of Lifting
For this week’s podcast, I’m talking to our friend Casey Johnston, a tech journalist turned fitness journalist turned independent journalist. Casey studied physics, which led her to tech journalism; she did some of my favorite coverage of Internet culture as well as Apple’s horrendous butterfly laptop keyboards. We worked together at VICE, where Casey was…
Who Is Liang Wenfeng, the Founder of A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek?
The Chinese company DeepSeek seemed to have come out of nowhere this week when it upturned markets. Here’s what to know about the engineer who started it.
Balatro Ported to the Gameboy Advance’s e-Reader
A software engineer in Michigan has coded a version of Balatro that runs off playing cards. The un-released demake of the popular video game is a prototype meant to run on the Gameboy Advanced through an e-Reader, a 2000s era accessory that loaded games onto the console via a strip of dot code printed onto…
Podcast: The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster
We start this week with Sam and Emanuel’s article about the latest Epstein dump, and how it’s really a disaster in a lot of ways. After the break, Matthew runs us through Moltbot and its terrible security. After the break, Emanuel breaks down his two recent stories about a fundamental issue exposing a bunch of…