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A researcher has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in KVM, the kernel-based virtual machine technology that underpins much of the world's cloud infrastructure. Details remain sparse, but a flaw at the hypervisor level is serious business — it could allow attackers to break out of virtual machines entirely, affecting millions of hosted workloads.
Shifting to the intersection of politics and crypto, President Trump is hosting another meme coin dinner on November twenty-second, this time for the top one hundred eighty-five holders of his TRUMP token. The event lands just weeks after ethics concerns around his personal crypto holdings helped stall the bipartisan Clarity Act in the Senate — a bill meant to regulate digital assets.
And Cathie Wood is sounding an early alarm about AI agents and money. As these systems evolve from answering questions to autonomously making purchases, Wood argues smart investors need to pay close attention to who controls the financial rails those agents run on. The stakes, she says, are enormous — and the race to own that infrastructure is already underway.
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