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Dutch authorities have taken into custody the co-owners of two connected Internet hosting firms for running IT systems that Russia exploited to launch cyberattacks, influence operations, and disinformation campaigns within the European Union. These two individuals were central figures in a 2025 KrebsOnSecurity investigation, which revealed how their hosting businesses had taken over the technical backbone of Stark Industries Solutions—an Internet provider sanctioned the previous year by the EU for repeatedly serving as a launchpad for cyber operations linked to Russian intelligence agencies. A Tax Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) agent, the Netherlands’ financial crimes unit, seen during the raid.…

For years, web authentication has operated under a single assumption: a human is sitting behind the browser. Click a button. Complete a form. Confirm an email. Copy an API key and paste it somewhere else. That approach breaks down when the user is handing tasks off to an AI agent. Agents are already writing code, opening pull requests, triaging tickets, querying systems, and updating records. Yet most products still lack a proper way for an agent to register. The common workaround — handing an agent a raw API key or session token — creates credentials that are overly broad, difficult…

Posted on May 25, 2026 by Andrew Katsikas, Pelotech CNCF projects highlighted in this post Teams running Ingress NGINX in production are increasingly looking at migration paths as Kubernetes networking moves toward Gateway API. For many organizations, the challenge isn’t just choosing a Gateway API implementation — it’s designing a migration strategy that keeps operational risk low during the switchover. Most engineering teams understand they need to migrate, but they lack the bandwidth for a thorough evaluation, aren’t sure which Gateway API controller is the right long-term choice, and know that a rushed cutover will drop production traffic the moment…

By Sharath Muddaiah, Head of Global Business Strategy and Customer Success for IoT Solutions at Giesecke+Devrient The logistics industry is rapidly embracing digital transformation. Disruptions in supply chains are impacting the safe and efficient transport of goods, while businesses face growing demands to deliver products faster, more affordably, and with greater sustainability. As a result, gaining real-time insight into the location and condition of shipments during transit has become increasingly critical. This is where smart labels come in. These innovative tools are revolutionising supply chain tracking by turning any package into a connected IoT device, and their adoption is accelerating…

The Model Context Protocol has moved from Anthropic’s internal experiment to a de facto industry standard at a speed few integration protocols have matched. Since its launch in November 2024, MCP has grown explosively: OpenAI adopted it in March 2025, Microsoft announced support in Copilot Studio in March 2025, and by late 2025 combined Python and TypeScript SDK downloads had crossed 97 million monthly. In December 2025, Anthropic donated MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. Gartner projects that up to 40% of enterprise applications will include integrated task-specific AI agents by the end of 2026, up…

In brief Zoltar is a full divination engine: Swiss Ephemeris natal charts, live daily horoscopes, structured tarot readings, I Ching, numerology, and Elder Futhark runes. Antiscammer uses Hermes to flood scammers on WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with the complete Shrek screenplay—3,679 lines—until they’re forced to block you. Book-Mirror produces a personalized two-column chapter analysis that mirrors every idea in a book to your actual life using your real words, real people, and real situations from Hermes’s memory. You installed Hermes. You made it look better than ChatGPT. Now you’re wondering what to actually do with it.Most Hermes skills are serious…

A fresh, coordinated software supply chain attack campaign has struck three major package repositories—npm, PyPI, and Crates.io—to spread malware designed to harvest sensitive credentials. Dubbed TrapDoor, the operation involves more than 34 malicious packages spread across over 384 versions. The first signs of activity appeared on May 22, 2026, at 8:20 p.m. UTC, with batches of packages uploaded rapidly from a group of linked accounts. “TrapDoor focuses on developers working in crypto, DeFi, Solana, and AI communities,” Socket reported. “The rogue packages aim to pilfer developer secrets, cryptocurrency wallets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, browser data, and environment variables.” “Several npm…

In recent years, I’ve attended numerous meetings involving IT and legal teams where their goals and priorities seem completely out of sync. It often feels like two entirely different universes struggling to find common ground under tight deadlines. As one colleague put it: "Legal writes for people, IT builds for machines." Law thrives on interpretation, context, and mitigation, while IT relies on logic and deterministic workflows. Because of this, even minor misunderstandings can result in weeks of wasted effort building technical solutions that were never legally sound to begin with. The problem, solution, and anticipated outcomes I describe here target…

StepFun, an AI research firm based in Shanghai, has launched StepAudio 2.5 Realtime — an end-to-end, real-time speech large language model that lets users fully customize personas. Unlike traditional pipeline systems that handle speech recognition, reasoning, and voice synthesis as separate sequential steps, StepAudio 2.5 Realtime processes everything in a unified manner within a single framework. You feed audio in, and audio comes out — no intermediate modules. The model supports both Chinese and English. It’s accessible through a WebSocket API at wss://api.stepfun.com/v1/realtime, using the model identifier step-2.5-realtime. The Three Core Innovations The StepFun research team highlights three foundational architectural…

Persistent security breaches are dampening institutional interest in decentralized finance, even as adoption of broader cryptocurrency technologies like stablecoins and tokenized assets continues to gain traction.In an April research report, analysts at JPMorgan highlighted that securing cross-chain bridges remains a persistent hurdle for the DeFi space. This raises serious questions about whether the ecosystem can scale to accommodate major institutional players.The recent breach of the Versus-Ethereum bridge marks the eighth significant assault on DeFi bridges so far this year, with combined damages reaching $328.6 million.DeFi bridges continue to be top targets for cybercriminals aiming to siphon off millions. Source: PeckShieldMisha…