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1. OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

   The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

2. New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

   GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.

3. Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption

   No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.

4. Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

   Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.

5. Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

   Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.

6. Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

   Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.

7. Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

   Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."

8. Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

   One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.

9. Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers

   Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?

10. Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

    Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.