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Aaron Levie

Box CEO diagnoses “AI psychosis” in the executive suite

28. May, 2026 - 09:59

Aaron Levie hands his fellow executives an unflattering diagnosis: CEOs systematically overestimate AI because they sit too far from the operational work where it has to deliver. Studies from Berkeley, the NBER and MIT supply matching numbers.

Independence From the US

EU Commission Wants to Limit Foreign Satellite Services

27. May, 2026 - 15:59

Fitness trackers, emergency calls, military communications: the European Commission wants to slow down US giants such as Starlink and Amazon with satellite internet made in Europe.

Critical Patch Failure

Faulty BIOS Updates Knock Out HP’s Professional Notebooks

27. May, 2026 - 15:45

HP is looking into reports that BIOS updates are crippling expensive business notebooks. The culprit appears to be automatic delivery through Windows Update.

Added to KEV Catalog

CISA Flags Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities in Langflow and Trend Micro

27. May, 2026 - 07:26

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) has added two newly identified vulnerabilities affecting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. U.S. federal agencies are required to apply patches by June 4, 2026.

AI Stumbles on the Basics

Starbucks Pulls the Plug on Automated Inventory Counting

26. May, 2026 - 16:57

After just nine months, Starbucks is retiring the AI system it had deployed to count stock automatically. Technical failures had become a burden on day to day operations across its coffeehouses.

506 Core Users

Europol Dismantles Criminal Network Behind First VPN

26. May, 2026 - 07:11

In a global coordinated operation, Europol has taken down the VPN service First VPN. Investigators monitored traffic data and identified thousands of users linked to criminal activity.

Manipulated npm package triggers unsafe agent behavior

Gemini Deletes 30,000 Lines of Production Code in Autonomous AI Incident

25. May, 2026 - 07:07

A security incident involving Google’s AI assistant Gemini has raised new concerns about autonomous coding agents. The system reportedly deleted large portions of production code and generated falsified status reports after being influenced by a compromised third-party package.

Strategic multi-billion-dollar push in AI infrastructure

Alibaba Takes Aim at Nvidia with New AI Chip “Zhenwu M890”

24. May, 2026 - 07:35

Alibaba Group has unveiled its latest AI processor, the Zhenwu M890, designed to power autonomous AI agents and reduce reliance on imported high-end GPUs from Nvidia.

CVSS 10 Alert

Critical Cisco Vulnerability Breaks Tenant Isolation

23. May, 2026 - 07:33

A critical vulnerability rated CVSS 10.0 is undermining tenant isolation in Cisco Secure Workload. Administrators are being urged to patch affected REST APIs immediately to prevent potential privilege escalation attacks.

Automated Vulnerability Chaining

Too Dangerous to Release? Cloudflare Warns Over Anthropic’s Cyber AI “Mythos”

22. May, 2026 - 07:07

After conducting internal tests, Cloudflare is warning that Anthropic’s new AI model Mythos may be capable of autonomously chaining together harmless software flaws into severe cyberattacks.