ESET Threat Report: AI boosts cyber attackers’ efficiency

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026.ClickFix – a social ...

OpenAI secures U.S. regulatory green light for GPT-5.6 rollout, Axios report says

The U.S. Department of Commerce has cleared the way for OpenAI to proceed with a broad release of its advanced GPT-5.6 model, Axios reported, citing a source familiar with the matter. OpenAI ...
Opinion
Database Trends and ApplicationsOpinion

MotherDuck Previews Flights, an Agent-Native Ingest Tool Inside Python

MotherDuck is launching Flights, an agent-native data pipeline that enables users to choose the MCP server and AI agent of their choice to build and deploy data pipelines in minutes using a flexible, ...

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...

Georgia warns giant invasive lizards are spreading, devouring eggs of alligators and wild turkeys

Georgia officials are warning residents about an invasive reptile that can grow to 4 feet, top 10 pounds, and prey on the ...
Mountain DemocratOpinion

California Commentary: The bullet train’s threat to local governments

In April, the Senate Transportation Committee held an informational hearing on the latest version of the California ...
Miami Herald

A giant python was hiding beneath a Miami-Dade sidewalk. A hunter found 20 eggs

South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) python removal contractor Guillermo Tapanes captured a Burmese python and its nest containing about 20 eggs in Cutler Bay on Saturday, May 23, 2026.
Ars Technica

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and ...
Variety

‘The Python Hunt’ Review: An Entertainingly Garish Documentary Account of a State-Sanctioned Culling Spree

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the ...
Bleeping Computer

PyPI package with 1.1M monthly downloads hacked to push infostealer

An attacker pushed a malicious version of the popular elementary-data package Python Package Index (PyPI) to steal sensitive developer data and cryptocurrency wallets. The dangerous release is 0.23.3, ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 is here and it does multilingual text, full infographics, slides, maps, even manga — seemingly flawlessly

It's been only a few months since OpenAI released its last big improvement to AI image generations in ChatGPT and through its application programming interface (API) — namely, a new image generation ...
Government Technology

Connecticut Pauses AI Use to Create ‘Criminal Reports’

(TNS) — Connecticut prosecutors and police chiefs have put the brakes on the rapidly expanding acquisition by police agencies of artificial intelligence-powered law enforcement tools until the ...