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Image: Larry Hachucka/Creative Commons A simple tweak to a web address was all it took to peer into someone else’s Express order. The retailer recently patched a flaw in its website that exposed customer data through its order confirmation pages. The issue stemmed from the way Express generated sequential order IDs embedded in URLs, which allowed unauthorized access to personal details such as names, contact information, shipping addresses, and partial payment data. The vulnerability, discovered by a security researcher, did not require advanced hacking techniques, only knowledge of how the URLs were structured. From a fraudulent transaction investigation to uncovering…
After years of teasers and delays, Mouse: P.I. For Hire finally launched yesterday, and according to our freelance reviewer Billy Givens, it was worth the wait. Combining a noir story with classic rubber hose animation (think Steamboat Willie) and the mechanics of a boomer shooter (think Doom), Mouse’s unique style really stands out. But how does it play? Here’s an excerpt from Billy’s review:”With its black-and-white rubber hose animation, lively jazz soundtrack, and gripping detective noir setting, Mouse: P.I. For Hire serves up a refreshing 1930s-inspired experience in the seedy city of Mouseburg – a name that makes perfect sense…
Image: Anthropic Anthropic has launched a new version of its Opus AI model, which it says has notable improvements in software engineering and performing complex, long-running tasks. The announcement comes a week after Anthropic previewed a new model, Mythos, to a select few customers, which is set to supersede Opus as the most powerful AI model in the company’s portfolio. Anthropic made mention of this new model in the Opus announcement, saying Opus 4.7 would not be as “broadly capable” as Mythos and that it had experimented with ways to tone down the model’s cyber capabilities before release. For at…
The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of shaking up the way in which it handles common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the face of a rapidly-changing threat environment. Previously, the NVD programme aimed to analyse all CVEs received to add details – like severity scores and affected product lists – to help cyber teams prioritise and mitigate relevant vulnerabilities. It terms this process ‘enrichment’. However, going forward, it will enrich only those CVEs that meet a predefined set of criteria – those flaws that don’t…
Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana After years of sitting on the sidelines while other brands experimented with bendable screens, Apple is jumping into the fray with the iPhone Ultra. Unlike the tall, skinny foldables we’ve seen from competitors, the Ultra is expected to take a “passport” shape, wider than it is tall when open. According to reports from 9to5Mac, the design will feature a “book-style fold with titanium, crease-free display,” aiming to solve the annoying screen wrinkle that has plagued early foldable phones. Ultra-thin build with premium materials Design leaks point to a remarkably slim profile, possibly around 4.5mm…
Image: Lei Technology The future of robotics arrived at the Canton Fair… and it came in full force. The first phase of the 2026 China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair) opened on April 15 in Guangzhou with a clear theme: AI, automation, and robotics. Attendees were welcomed by an ice cream-making robot from Dobot Robotics, but that novelty quickly gave way to a showcase of humanoid machines built for real-world tasks, from logistics to precision manufacturing. Many of these systems are already being deployed across industries. What’s unfolding now is less about possibility… and more about scale. Ti5 Robot…
Privacy is not a modern invention; it is part of the human condition of trust, dissent, and intimacy. Every society has developed ways to communicate beyond the reach of power: whispered conversations, sealed letters, coded language. The need to keep secrets is equally as important among the powerful – governments, more so than individuals, have jealously guarded their own secrets, even as they seek to uncover the secrets of others. What is new is neither the need nor desire for private communication but the current power of the observer. We now live in what some have termed a “golden…
A North Korean social engineering campaign targeting macOS users tricked its victims into manually executing malicious files by impersonating a software update led to the theft of credentials, crypto assets, and personal data, according to Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence unit, MSTIC. In a new report published this week, MSTIC exposed the campaign – run by a threat actor tracked as Sapphire Sleet – which highlights how convincing user prompts and trusted system tools are still a highly-valuable tool for attackers of all stripes. This particular campaign, said MSTIC, demonstrated some new combinations of macOS-focused techniques that, though not novel in…
If you haven’t watched NoClip’s excellent two-part documentary about Digital Extremes’ sci-fi MMO shooter, Warframe, I highly recommend doing so. For the purpose of this story, that documentary is a great primer for the struggles the studio endured leading up to the launch of Warframe. But now, more than a decade and some change later, Warframe is still kicking, breaking its own playercount records as recently as last year.The secret to that success, and the success Digital Extremes has found thus far with Soulframe, is keeping the amount of public scrutiny as high as possible, according to Digital Extremes CEO Steve Sinclair,…
Image: Created with ChatGPT From Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 and Apple’s upcoming Siri app to critical zero-day patches and fresh corporate shake-ups, this week’s tech rundown showcases how relentless AI innovation, mounting security threats, and bold market maneuvers are reshaping everything from developer workflows to global infrastructure. AI models and assistants take center stage Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7, its latest flagship AI model boasting improved coding performance, enhanced image understanding, and a self-verification system to reduce hallucinations. The model is available across major cloud and productivity platforms at unchanged pricing. OpenAI expanded its Codex app for Mac automation, adding…