Practical Technology

A critical Linux vulnerability. A 9.8 severity score. And some of the world’s most widely deployed Linux distributions still racing to deliver patches.CVE-2026-98432 is the kind of kernel vulnerability that keeps security administrators awake at night.Discovered with help from Anthropic’s AI research, the flaw exposes weaknesses in the Linux TCP networking stack that could allow attackers to compromise vulnerable systems remotely, without credentials or user interaction.While patches are emerginRead More

Online scams doubled to 6.4M, overtaking phishing, Akamai reports.AI is making digital fraud faster, cheaper and harder to stop. The threat now goes well beyond stolen passwords. #Cybersecurity #AI #OnlineFraudRead More

PHP2Shell exploits are confirmed in the wild, yet 93.6% of systems remain exposed. Worse, many run PHP versions that will never get a patch.Read More

The AAIF brings reusable agent skills, model APIs, reinforcement-learning environments, and sandboxed execution to the open agentic AI ecosystem.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — At AGNTCon, the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) announced that it added four projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Alibaba. These are Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv, and OpenSandbox. AllRead More

Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is goodRead More

PyTorch is at the heart of AI development, and increasingly the software layer through which hardware vendors compete for AI workloads. 

SAN JOSE, Calif. — At the PyTorch Conference, the Big AI movers and shakers discussed the current state of PyTorch. And, well, they should since, asRead More