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Bitcoin is showing some resilience after a bruising stretch, bouncing back from a low of around eighty thousand dollars. But don't let that fool you — traders are actively pricing in further losses before October closes out, signaling that confidence in the market remains fragile at best.

On the cybersecurity front, unpatched vulnerabilities in the AhsayCBS backup management platform are now being actively exploited in the wild. Threat actors are using the flaws to plant webshells and run cryptocurrency miners inside compromised systems. It's a sharp reminder that backup infrastructure, often overlooked, is very much a target.

And in a move that could quietly reshape how businesses use AI assistants, Nectar has launched an MCP integration that pipes consumer, creator, and community data directly into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. The idea is straightforward — rather than switching platforms, insights teams get answers inside the tools they already live in. The real question is how much signal gets lost in translation.

That's the pulse of the tech world today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.

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  8. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unpatched-ahsaycbs-flaws-exploited-to-deploy-webshells-mine-crypto/
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