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Marcus Bell covers applied security: authentication, TLS, phishing, and the everyday decisions that keep accounts and data safe. He focuses on turning advice people usually ignore into steps they will actually follow.
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Claude AI’s Fake Murder Tip Sat Unseen 72 Days [2026]
On July 18, 2026, at 11:27 p.m., Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 opened a public tip form on PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com and typed out a…
Surface Laptop Ultra Price Hits $2,599, Runs 120B Models [2026]
Microsoft has put a price and a ship date on its most powerful Surface laptop ever. The Surface Laptop Ultra, built around…
ASOS Breach Exposes a New Tactic: Hijacked App Alerts [2026]
ASOS customers who opened their app on the morning of October 6, 2026 found something stranger than a sale notification. The push…
ASOS Confirms Breach: Names Leaked, 0 Passwords [2026]
ASOS has put its name to a breach for the first time since a rogue push notification tore through its app on…
OpenAI’s Math Drop Hits GitHub, Count Splits 719/722 [2026]
OpenAI pushed a new batch of mathematical manuscripts to GitHub on October 6, 2026, crediting the work to an unreleased internal model.…
GPT-6 Sol Hits 99.99% Prompt Injection Defense [2026]
OpenAI published new safety numbers for GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on October 7, 2026, and the figures are the highest the…
Chutes, Harvard Release 6.12B LLM Request Dataset [2026]
A production trace with 6.12 billion rows just became public, and systems researchers are paying attention. On October 8, 2026, coverage continued…
Nvidia Bets $60M AI Factories on Open-Source Models [2026]
Nvidia used this week’s wave of platform updates to push a message it has been repeating in interviews and keynotes all year:…
Bitget Hack Hits $388M, Skips Private Keys Entirely [2026]
Bitget spent eight years building a reputation as one of the few major exchanges to avoid a headline-grabbing hack. That streak ended…
Intel Joins TSMC at Applied Materials’ $5B Chip Lab [2026]
Applied Materials and Intel told investors on October 6, 2026 that they are deepening a partnership built around Applied’s EPIC Center in…
