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NVIDIA's release of Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on August 11, 2026, marks a significant shift in AI development, emphasizing efficiency over model size. This 30B-parameter open model activates only 3B parameters per token, achieving a 51.56% score on SWE-bench Verified and completing 10,000 tasks 30% fas

Oasis Security has disclosed a critical vulnerability in NVIDIA's NemoClaw that allows attackers to manipulate local AI models via a malicious webpage. NemoClaw, an open-source reference stack for running AI agents like OpenClaw in OpenShell sandboxes, uses Ollama as one of its local inference backe

U.S. government agencies have issued a joint warning that Iranian hackers are targeting Siemens S7-series programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which are widely used in critical infrastructure sectors such as water, energy, and manufacturing. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Securi

An Israeli cybersecurity firm, Dream, reported that hackers suspected to be linked to China used publicly available AI tools to carry out the world's first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government target—Taiwan. The attack lasted four days in early July, compromising at least

In a landscape marked by rising hardware costs, Egyptian full-stack developer ZedAxis demonstrates an innovative low-cost ad-blocking solution using a $5 ESP32-C3 'SuperMini' board. This device successfully blocks over 537,000 domains with just 10ms latency, leveraging hash algorithms to compress do

Hardware hacker Matthias Balwierz (alias Bitluni) is constructing a homemade GPU using 64,000 low-cost RISC-V microcontrollers. The project adopts a distributed architecture where each chip functions both as a processor and a pixel, utilizing RGB LEDs for display. The system consists of thousands of

The arrest and extradition of Estonian hacker Peter Stokes has brought attention to how Windows telemetry, particularly the Global Device Identifier (GDID), can be used for user tracking. The FBI obtained telemetry logs from Microsoft, which included Stokes' GDID and browsing history, demonstrating