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Friday, March 13, 2026
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Engineer HPE Aruba CX switches have an unauthenticated admin-takeover vulnerability at near-maximum CVSS — zero credentials required — and 24,700 n8n workflow automation instances are exposed to actively-exploited RCE that leaks every credential and API key your automations touch.
Two network infrastructure vulnerabilities demand same-day patching (Aruba CX unauthenticated admin takeover, n8n RCE with 24,700 exposed instances), while OpenAI's new guidance and a live AI-agent ex…
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Security A DigitalMint ransomware negotiator allegedly ran ALPHV/BlackCat attacks against companies that then hired his firm to negotiate — extracting $75.25M across at least 10 attacks, with single payments reaching $26.8M, while using confidential negotiation data to maximize extortion.
A ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint allegedly attacked his own clients then served as their 'trusted advisor' to extract $75.25M — while a near-CVSS-10 unauthenticated admin takeover in HPE Aruba C…
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Data Science Google published controlled experiments proving that reasoning-enabled LLMs hallucinate intermediate chain-of-thought steps that propagate into final-answer errors — a failure mode your final-answer-only monitoring is blind to.
Google proved that reasoning-enabled LLMs hallucinate intermediate chain-of-thought steps that propagate into wrong final answers — a failure mode your output-only monitoring can't detect — while McKi…
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Product The SaaS market erased $1 trillion in market cap in a single week — ServiceNow dropped 11% despite beating earnings, Microsoft shed $360B in one session — while Ben Horowitz told founders that Opus 4.6 can now handle PM task execution and the only thing that saves your seat is 'right product, right time' judgment.
The SaaS market just priced in a $1 trillion structural repricing of per-seat software in a single week — ServiceNow dropped 11% despite beating earnings — while Anthropic's one-click migration tool d…
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Leader The January 29 'SaaSmagedon' erased $1T+ in software market cap — and ServiceNow dropping 11% despite beating earnings proves the market is repricing the entire SaaS category structurally, not punishing poor performers.
The market erased $1 trillion in SaaS market cap on January 29 — punishing even companies that beat earnings — because it believes per-seat pricing, human-centric UIs, and code moats are structurally…
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Investor McKinsey's enterprise AI platform Lilli was breached via basic SQL injection in 2 hours — 46.5M chat messages and 728K sensitive files exposed — while Perplexity's Comet AI browser was weaponized for phishing in under 4 minutes.
AI platform security is a greenfield category with zero incumbents — McKinsey's Lilli was breached via basic SQLi (46.5M messages), Perplexity's Comet was weaponized in 4 minutes, and cyber insurers j…
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