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Microsoft is tracking a new piece of self-propagating malware it calls Crypto Clipper, a worm that travels through USB drives hunting for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and seed phrases stored in device clipboards. When it finds a match, it captures five screenshots and ships everything off to attacker-controlled servers. It's a reminder that old-school physical media attacks never really went away.
Shifting to the geopolitical side of tech, the White House reportedly held back from adding DeepSeek to the federal Entity List ahead of President Trump's meeting with Chinese premier Xi Jinping. The Chinese AI company had been flagged for potential ties to China's military and intelligence apparatus, but diplomacy appears to have paused enforcement. The decision raises real questions about where trade policy ends and national security begins.
And in the ongoing story of AI reshaping how we work, Anthropic has rolled out a feature called Artifacts for Claude Code's Team and Enterprise subscribers. It lets users turn a coding session into a live, shareable, interactive webpage connected to real data sources. For enterprise teams trying to move fast without standing up separate dashboards, that's a meaningful shift in workflow.
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