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BetFury welcomes VIP Users with up to $20,000 first-week rewards Summary BetFury has expanded its VIP Transfer Program so experienced players can carry loyalty status from other platforms and unlock VIP benefits immediately. New joiners can claim up to $20,000 in first-week rewards. The programme pairs users with Personal VIP Managers and a VIP Transfer […]
How do AI models generate videos? Summary The article explains the current technical stack behind AI video generation, centred on latent diffusion transformers. It breaks down diffusion models (which learn to reverse noise to create images), latent diffusion (working in compressed “latent” space to cut compute), and the role of transformers to maintain temporal consistency […]
WhatsApp Bug Anchors Targeted Zero-Click iPhone Attacks Summary A WhatsApp vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177, CVSS 5.4) has been linked to a sophisticated zero-click campaign that also used a patched Apple OS flaw (CVE-2025-43300). Meta and CISA say the WhatsApp bug could allow processing of content from an arbitrary URL on a target device; WhatsApp has released fixes […]
Hacked Routers Linger on the Internet for Years, Data Shows Summary Researchers at Censys — led by principal security researcher Emily Austin — discovered several hundred Ubiquiti routers still displaying “hacked” banners when trawling Internet scan data. The evidence suggests these devices were compromised long ago rather than in a new campaign: the number of […]
Cloudflare Holds Back the Tide on 11.5Tbps DDoS Attack Summary Cloudflare reports it automatically mitigated hundreds of hyper-volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in recent weeks, including a UDP flood that peaked at about 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The 11.5Tbps event lasted roughly 35 seconds and originated from a mix of IoT devices and cloud […]
Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon Summary At a weekend hackathon in San Francisco called Model Behavior, more than 100 coders gathered in a coworking space to see whether human teams could beat AI-equipped teams for a $12,500 prize. The event was a microcosm of the current developer debate: AI tools can speed up some […]
Newly Granted Nintendo Patents An ‘Embarrassing Failure’ By The USPTO, Says Patent Attorney Summary Nintendo was recently granted two U.S. patents (US 12,409,387 and US 12,403,397) covering broad gameplay mechanics such as riding/flying systems and a summoning/battling loop involving “sub-characters.” Patent attorney Kirk Sigmon calls the grants an “embarrassing failure” of the USPTO because the […]
Hacked Routers Linger on the Internet for Years, Data Shows Summary Researchers using Censys Internet-scan data found several hundred Ubiquiti routers still showing hacked banners — defacements that, in many cases, date back years rather than representing recent attacks. The defaced banners trace to campaigns going back to at least 2016–2017 (for example, MF worm-related […]
WhatsApp Bug Anchors Targeted Zero-Click iPhone Attacks Summary Attackers exploited a WhatsApp vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177, CVSS 5.4) in a zero-click campaign against specific Apple users that likely delivered spyware. The WhatsApp flaw allowed processing of content from arbitrary URLs on a target device and was used in combination with an Apple OS out-of-bounds write zero-day (CVE-2025-43300), […]
Russia’s APT28 Targets Microsoft Outlook With ‘NotDoor’ Malware Summary Security researchers at Lab52 (S2 Grupo) have uncovered a new Outlook-focused backdoor called “NotDoor” attributed to APT28 (Fancy Bear). NotDoor is a VBA macro for Microsoft Outlook that watches for a specific trigger string in incoming emails; when triggered it can execute commands, upload files, and […]
