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FortiGate Firewalls Breached: 430K Devices Targeted with VPN Credential Sniffing
Attackers compromised approximately 430,000 FortiGate firewalls worldwide, deploying custom sniffers to intercept VPN credentials. The operation is linked to INC Ransom and Lynx ransomware groups, highlighting a new attack surface on edge devices that bypasses traditional EDR/SIEM.
Towards Feature Complete Triton Support in JAX-Triton â ROCm Blogs
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Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Rebuilds from Scratch: 2M Token Context Window Reshapes AI Frontier
Google DeepMind targets July 17 for Gemini 3.5 Pro, a full architectural rewrite of its pretraining stack to overcome deficits in math reasoning, SVG generation, and image quality. Specs include a 2M token context window, Deep Think reasoning layer, and multi-step autonomous workflows, though unconfirmed by Google.
NVIDIA Vera CPU: Max Single-Threaded Performance at Scale for Agentic AI
NVIDIA launches Vera CPU, a max single-threaded CPU at scale for agentic AI. With Olympus cores delivering 1.8x sustained per-core performance over x86, 1.2TB/s LPDDR5X bandwidth, and 3.4TB/s core-to-core bandwidth, Vera integrates into NVIDIA's unified AI factory architecture, aiming to lock users into its ecosystem.
AI Innovators Adopt NVIDIA Vera — Why Max Single-Threaded CPU at Scale Matters
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Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
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When AI Invents the Attack: Browser-Native Ransomware
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Etched Unveils Sohu Transformer ASIC: Claims 20x H100 Inference Throughput, Challenging NVIDIA's Grip
AI chip startup Etched emerges from stealth with Sohu, a Transformer-specific ASIC on TSMC N4P with 144GB HBM3E. By hardwiring attention mechanisms, it claims 20x throughput and 140x price-performance vs. H100 on Llama 70B. With $800M total funding and first racks shipping this summer, it directly challenges NVIDIA's inference dominance.
libssh2 CVE-2026-55200: Pre-auth RCE via Malicious Server, Attack Surface Shifts to Clients
A critical heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CVE-2026-55200, CVSS 9.2) in libssh2 allows a malicious SSH server to achieve pre-auth RCE on connecting clients. The flaw affects curl, Git, PHP, and many other projects statically linking the library, expanding the attack surface from servers to virtually any client application, including CI/CD, backup, and embedded systems.
OpenAI and Broadcom Tape Out First Inference ASIC Jalapeño in 9 Months, Targeting NVIDIA Dominance
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, their first custom inference ASIC, fabricated on TSMC 3nm and optimized for Transformer models. Targeting a 50% inference cost reduction, it taped out in 9 months and is slated for deployment in gigawatt-scale data centers by late 2026, marking OpenAI's strategic pivot to full-stack AI infrastructure and a direct challenge to NVIDIA's inference hegemony.
Making private MCP servers reachable without making them public | OpenAI Developers
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Huawei Pushes Token-Based Billing at MWC Shanghai 2026: Shifting Carrier Monetization from Bytes to AI Inference Value
At MWC Shanghai 2026, Huawei urged carriers to shift from byte-based to token-based billing for AI workloads, showcasing a 372% token throughput improvement in long-sequence inference via its AI Inference Acceleration Solution. It also highlighted the Upper-6 GHz band as critical for AI wearables requiring 20 Mbps uplink, aiming to reposition 5G-A networks as AI compute delivery infrastructure.
Oracle Defense Ecosystem Cohort 3: Offline AI on Roving Edge Devices Goes Operational
Oracle announced the third cohort of its Defense Ecosystem at the Brussels summit, adding 10 companies. Concurrently, Whitespace's Saga AI system deployed on Oracle Roving Edge Devices during Royal Navy's Operation HIGHMAST, running classified AI workloads completely offline, proving sovereign edge AI is operational.
Huawei Unveils AI-Centric Network with Token Monetization, UCM Caching Breaks Long-Context Barriers
At MWC Shanghai 2026, Huawei unveiled an AI-native network architecture integrating service, network, and compute, shifting from traffic-centric to intelligence-centric operations. The Unified Cache Manager (UCM) extends KV cache to petabyte-scale external storage, achieving 372% token throughput gains on GLM-5.1 at 128K sequence lengths. Token monetization frameworks and agentic operations enable carriers to charge for AI inference capacity and personalize services.
Google Cloud Multi-Agent Architecture Shifts Control from Human to Autonomous Verification
Google Cloud introduces agent-scale data management with multi-agent verification to reduce human oversight. Deploys six Gemini agents with Nokia for autonomous network operations. Amazon plans to commercialize Trainium chips, intensifying AI hardware competition against Google TPU and Nvidia GPU.
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Massive Distillation Attack on Claude AI Model
Anthropic accused Alibaba-linked operators of conducting 29 million exchanges via thousands of fraudulent accounts to distill Claude's capabilities, including long-context reasoning and decision-making. This highlights the vulnerability of AI model IP under API access, prompting a redefinition of model security boundaries.
Cisco Launches AI Troubleshooting Agent for Industrial Networks, Shifting Control Plane
Cisco launches AI Troubleshooting for Industrial Networks, an ambient agent on Cisco Cloud Control. It monitors switch syslogs, uses deterministic logic to diagnose physical and network faults, and provides OT technicians with actionable fix steps, aiming to reduce MTTD and MTTR by minimizing escalations to network experts.
TSMC Hikes Advanced Node Prices 5-10%, Squeezing AI Chip Margins
TSMC informs clients of 5-10% price hikes across all advanced nodes (7nm+), affecting 74% of wafer revenue. Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and others face higher costs, potentially raising AI infrastructure prices.
Cisco Live US & InfoComm 2026 : la collaboration entre dans l’ère agentique
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Mandiant Reveals Cisco SD-WAN Manager Zero-Day: Control Plane Becomes Prime Target
Mandiant identified a zero-day (CVE-2026-20245) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager exploited via malicious CSV upload to escalate to root. The intrusion involved rogue peering, credential manipulation, and anti-forensic cleanup. This highlights SD-WAN centralized control planes as a new attack surface for advanced threats.