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A serious security warning tonight from French cloud provider OVHcloud, which says attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface tool on GitHub, using it to distribute information-stealing malware. Developers who rely on that CLI should audit their systems immediately, as credentials and secrets may have been exposed.
Turning to artificial intelligence, Microsoft is rolling out new controls designed to treat AI agents the way companies treat human insiders — with trust that adjusts based on behavior. The system grants permissions on a per-task basis and tightens access dynamically as an agent's risk score rises, a notable shift in how enterprises think about autonomous software.
And on a lighter note, a developer has used AI assistance to bring Thunderbolt four support to Windows ninety-eight. Yes, really. Yeo Kheng Meng released an experimental driver enabling USB four and Thunderbolt three and four on machines running operating systems that are, in some cases, a quarter century old — a genuinely impressive feat of retrocomputing determination.
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