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CloudZero Adds Discount Dashboard and Hands-Off Savings Partners
On April 26, 2022 CloudZero expanded its cost optimization offering with a new discount dashboard and partnerships with ProsperOps and Xosphere for autonomous savings on Reserved Instances, Savings Plans and Spot Instances.
Coinbase's Base L2 Expands Ethereum Developer Tools
TechCrunch reports Coinbase's launch of Base, an Ethereum-focused L2 blockchain led by Jesse Pollak, designed to help developers build dApps on-chain.
CISA Sounds the Alarm on Actively Exploited Windows IKE Extension RCE Flaw
CISA has added CVE-2026-33824, a critical-severity remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows IKE Extension (MS-IKEE) component, to its catalog of actively exploited vulnerabilities. The flaw allows unauthorized attackers to execute code over a network by sending maliciously crafted packets to unpatched Windows systems via UDP ports 500 or 4500. CISA ordered FCEB agencies to patch within three days per Binding Operational Directive 26-04.
Lava Payments Aims to Invisible-Layer the AI Web with Agent-Friendly Digital Wallets
Lava Payments emerges from stealth with $5.8M seed funding to build digital wallets enabling AI agents to make seamless transactions across merchants and foundational models. Founder Mitchell Jones solves the repeated-authentication problem with a shared credit system that works across any service.
CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Patch Two Critical TrueConf Server Flaws
CISA has added two critical TrueConf Server vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and ordered U.S. Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to patch them within two weeks. The flaws are CVE-2026-72529 (missing authentication, remote script execution) and CVE-2026-72530 (code injection, sandbox escape for remote code execution). Kaspersky attributes exploitation to the Head Mare hacktivist group since at least July 2026.
Why Excessive Optimism Costs You Money
University of Bath research links excessive optimism with lower cognitive skills and poorer financial outcomes, showing realism improves decision-making under uncertainty.
Huntress exposes 155x password-spray surge leveraging MFA blind spots
Huntress observed a 155x increase in password spraying attacks in H1 2026, including a campaign targeting Microsoft's Azure CLI from an IPv6 range controlled by LSHIY LLC, with 81 million login attempts and 78 account compromises in a two-week window. The attacks exploited MFA gaps via the legacy ROPC OAuth grant and poorly scoped Conditional Access policies.
Mining Automation as AI Training Ground for Caterpillar's Broader Push
How Caterpillar is translating decades of mining autonomy into AI tools for technicians, digital twins, software development and workforce training, and why workflows matter more than hardware.
The Envy Circuit: How Monkeys Learn to Value Less When Others Win
A 2018 macaque study maps a medial prefrontal to midbrain pathway that tracks a partner's reward and lowers the subjective value of one's own.
How Literacy Reshapes the Human Brain in the Age of AI and Screens
A summary of research showing that literacy is a profound neurological catalyst that rewires memory, attention, executive reasoning, and visual perception — challenging the idea that reading crowds out older brain systems, and instead enhancing face and object recognition. The work also warns that screen reading, audiobooks, and text simplification each provide partial or different benefits, and that over-reliance on AI readability tools may stall neural development in young readers.
The dsx Gene Programs Honeybee Workers From Brain to Hive Duty
CRISPR edits of the doublesex gene in honeybees change foraging and brood care duration and reveal how dsx wires the mushroom body to produce inherited group-supporting behaviours.
CISA Directs Federal Agencies to Remediate Actively Exploited Citrix NetScaler RCE Flaw
CISA has added CVE-2026-8452 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Katalog, ordering Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to patch Citrix NetScaler appliances by August 29, 2026 per BOD 26-04. The memory overflow flaw affects NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances with Gateway VPN or AAA virtual servers.