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A criminal operator has been quietly dismantling corporate cybersecurity using nothing more than three freely available open source AI agents. Security researchers at Gambit traced the campaign back to a single staging server, revealing over six hundred thousand stolen credit card records and skimming malware planted across more than twenty-five organizations, including a Fortune five hundred hotel chain and a major US airline. The cost to the attacker was reportedly trivial.

On a different kind of security front, Meta has published a detailed account of how it built safety guardrails directly into Muse, its AI agent framework. The piece is notable less for the specifics than for what it signals — that agent-level safety is now a first-class engineering problem, not an afterthought bolted on after deployment. The industry is watching closely.

Meanwhile, Micron Technology has crossed a meaningful threshold in hardware, successfully demonstrating the world's first five hundred twelve gigabyte DDR five RDIMM module. That is a single stick of server memory holding more capacity than many enterprise systems ran on just a few years ago, pointing toward a generation of infrastructure built around dramatically denser, faster data access.

Those are the stories driving the conversation today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.

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