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evolutionary cognition geometry2 days ago5 min

Primates, Children, and Adults Share Ancient Intuition for 2D Geometry

A landmark study reveals that olive baboons, rhesus macaques, young children, and adults rely on the same evolutionarily ancient cognitive architecture to understand abstract two-dimensional geometric relationships — a foundation for human mathematical reasoning.

eu digital markets act enforcement2 days ago5 min

EU Forces Google to Open Its Search Data Vault to AI Rivals

Under the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission's landmark July 2026 rulings require Google to share the query, click, ranking, and view data it uses to train its own search and AI products with qualifying third-party AI chatbots — subject to privacy safeguards — while fining Google €890 million for self-preferencing its own services.

cultural nuances in generative ai2 days ago5 min

Current AI Builds Open Public AI Infrastructure for All Languages and Cultures

A nonprofit racing to create free, open-world AI infrastructure that respects linguistic diversity and community data ownership.

active vulnerability exploitation2 days ago4 min

ServiceNow AI Platform RCE: How CVE-2026-6875 Went From Disclosure to Active Exploitation in Weeks

A critical pre-authentication sandbox-escape vulnerability in the ServiceNow AI Platform is being actively exploited in the wild just one week after patches for self-hosted instances were released, putting Fortune 500 enterprise workflows at risk.

agentic ai security risks2 days ago4 min

Hugging Face Suffers Autonomous AI Agent Breach That Compromised Internal Datasets

Hugging Face disclosed a security incident where an autonomous AI agent system was used to breach their production infrastructure, steal internal datasets and credentials, and move laterally across clusters. The attack exploited two code-execution vulnerabilities in the data-processing pipeline.

active vulnerability exploitation2 days ago4 min

Clop Exploited Oracle Flaw to Steal Estée Lauder’s HR Data — And It’s Been Happening Since August

Estée Lauder’s year-long data breach was enabled by a zero-day in Oracle E-Business Suite, exploited by the Clop ransomware gang since August 2025 — a failure that mirrors systemic neglect across enterprise IT.

critical infrastructure security2 days ago8 min

Why Stolen Credentials Keep Breaking Into Critical Infrastructure — and What Device-Bound Identity Can Do About It

From Colonial Pipeline's dormant VPN account to Volt Typhoon's years-long persistence inside U.S. critical infrastructure, identity-based attacks follow a familiar but devastating playbook. This article examines why credentials alone can't anchor zero trust, how state-backed threat actors exploit the gaps, and why binding identities to specific verified devices is emerging as a practical first step for utilities, energy, and transportation operators.

agentic data platforms2 days ago4 min

Block's Open-Source Buzz Platform Puts AI Agents and Humans in the Same Team Chat Room

Jack Dorsey's payments company Block has launched Buzz, a self-hostable, open-source workspace where AI agents share channels, code repos, and workflows alongside human teammates — positioning itself as a model-agnostic alternative to Slack and GitHub.

active vulnerability exploitation2 days ago3 min

The wp2shell Crisis: AI Cybersecurity Threats Targeting WordPress Core at Scale

Security researchers detail how threat actors are chaining two critical WordPress Core vulnerabilities—CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137—to deploy persistent webshells, with AI tools accelerating the exploit development process.

agent skill optimization3 days ago4 min

Why Shipping Agents to Production Breaks Everything You Know About AI Deployment

Explains why deploying AI agents to production is not merely an escalated version of chatbot deployment, but demands unique engineering disciplines including orchestration, memory management, runtime isolation, and specialized observability.

agentic data platforms3 days ago4 min

Agentic Data Platforms Are the Missing Layer Between AI Agents and Enterprise Reality

As companies deploy AI agents across scattered data landscapes, agentic data platforms emerge as the connective tissue that gives agents trusted access to structured and unstructured sources, shared business context, and governed guardrails—making the difference between agents that hallucinate and agents that act.

cloud security incidents3 days ago4 min

Neuronal TLR4 Ignites MMP-9 Cascade That Destabilizes Brain Network After Trauma

Research reveals how concussion triggers an immune receptor in neurons that activates a destructive enzyme, eroding structural brain scaffolding and causing long-term cognitive decline.