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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): the first global standard for measuring it has been defined
On October 21, 2025, an international team of researchers from 29 leading institutions—including Stanford University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley —completed a study that marks a mi...
ChatGPT buys me bread! Atlas, the smart browser for macOS, is here.
OpenAI has released the ChatGPT Atlas browser for macOS. It integrates artificial intelligence directly into the interface and can perform tasks on web pages without having to switch between tabs. Atl...
F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability: 266,000 Devices at Risk Worldwide! 2,500 in Italy
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are issuing this Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) in response to t...
The Intel 386 processor turns 40: the 32-bit era began
October 20, 2025, marks a significant anniversary in the history of computing: the Intel 80386 processor, also known as the i386 , celebrates its 40th birthday . And it’s a big birthday! Launche...
Intel releases urgent patches for new Spectre variant
VUSec researchers have presented a paper titled “Training Solo,” which challenges the fundamental principles of protection against Spectre-v2 attacks. Previously , the domain isolation mec...
Famous hackers: Vladimir Levin and the first online bank robbery.
Today we’ll meet another hacker from the past. He’s Vladimir Levin, a Russian hacker from St. Petersburg (Владимир Леонидович Левин), who became famous for breaking into the servers of the...
Cyber Attack on European Airports: Everest Ransomware Claims Claim
On September 20, we reported on a cyberattack that paralyzed several European airports, including Brussels, Berlin, and London Heathrow. This was a supply chain attack that exploited the compromise of...
Inmates hack prison: sentences reduced, funds transferred, and unauthorized visits
The Romanian penitentiary system has found itself at the center of a major digital scandal: inmates in Târgu Jiu hacked the PNA’s internal platform and, for several months, managed data on priso...
WiFi: From Marconi’s Origins to the Wireless Network We Know Today
Today, we live in a world where WiFi is a fundamental necessity, but how did this technology, now taken for granted, come about? How did it then develop into the network we now use every day? In this ...
Operation SIMCARTEL: 1,200 SIM boxes and 40,000 SIM cards stopped by Europol
On October 10, 2025, Latvian authorities conducted a day of action that resulted in the arrest of five Latvian citizens suspected of running a large-scale cyber fraud network. The operation, dubbed SI...
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On October 21, 2025, an international team of researchers from 29 leading institutions—including Stanford University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley —completed a study that marks ...

OpenAI has released the ChatGPT Atlas browser for macOS. It integrates artificial intelligence directly into the interface and can perform tasks on web pages without having to switch between tabs. Atl...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) are issuing this Joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) in response to t...

October 20, 2025, marks a significant anniversary in the history of computing: the Intel 80386 processor, also known as the i386 , celebrates its 40th birthday . And it’s a big birthday! Launche...

VUSec researchers have presented a paper titled “Training Solo,” which challenges the fundamental principles of protection against Spectre-v2 attacks. Previously , the domain isolation mec...
DAS: The world’s ear hidden in submarine cables
Hacker culture pioneer Peter Samson plays “Boards of Canada” on PDP-1
Crimson Collective claims alleged Nintendo hack: bluff or real breach?
Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: security risks
Between AI and fear, Skynet teaches: “We’ll build bunkers before launching AGI.”
GitHub is migrating to Azure! And goodbye to new development for a year.

DAS: The world’s ear hidden in submarine cables
Redazione RHC - October 13th, 2025
Over 1.2 million kilometers of fiber optic cables lie on the ocean floor, long considered solely part of a global telecommunications network. However, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology , rapidly...

Hacker culture pioneer Peter Samson plays “Boards of Canada” on PDP-1
Redazione RHC - October 12th, 2025
In a world where music has long since migrated to streaming and digital platforms, one enthusiast decided to go back six decades, to a time when melodies could still come...

Crimson Collective claims alleged Nintendo hack: bluff or real breach?
Luca Galuppi - October 12th, 2025
This time, hackers are targeting Nintendo , the historic Japanese video game company that has been tooth and nail for decades defending its intellectual property and the industrial secrets that...

Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: security risks
Redazione RHC - October 12th, 2025
Security flaws have been discovered in network communication between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (DFE) cloud services , allowing attackers, following a breach, to bypass authentication, manipulate data, release sensitive information,...

Between AI and fear, Skynet teaches: “We’ll build bunkers before launching AGI.”
Redazione RHC - October 12th, 2025
The quote, “We’ll definitely build a bunker before we launch AGI,” that inspired the article, was attributed to a Silicon Valley leader, though it’s unclear who exactly he meant by...

GitHub is migrating to Azure! And goodbye to new development for a year.
Redazione RHC - October 12th, 2025
When Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018, the company tried to stay away. The platform developed relatively independently until things began to change in recent months. The departure of GitHub CEO...
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