May 1, 2026 at 11:31am ET
Only the paranoid survive.
> Only the paranoid survive. > > -Andy Grove Three attacks.
Source: The Hacker News / CyberSecurity News / Xint Code
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April 28, 2026 at 5:52pm ET
A professor used prompt injection to catch students cheating with AI.
This morning I posted about indirect prompt injection. Attackers hiding invisible instructions in web pages to hijack AI agents.
Source: HuffPost / Will Teague
April 28, 2026 at 2:02pm ET
An AI agent hacked McKinsey's internal AI platform in two hours. Through SQL injection.
McKinsey built an internal AI platform called Lilli. Three quarters of their 40,000 employees use it for strategy work, client research and document analysis.
Source: Bank Info Security / CodeWall / The Register
April 28, 2026 at 11:33am ET
The web is being weaponized against your AI agents. And the attack is hiding in plain sight.
The web is being weaponized against your AI agents. And the attack is hiding in plain sight.
Source: Help Net Security / Google / Forcepoint
April 28, 2026 at 7:30am ET
AI data centers are gobbling up the world's memory supply. Your business will feel it.
AI data centers are gobbling up the world's memory supply. And your business is going to feel it.
Source: Tom's Hardware / TrendForce / SemiAnalysis
April 27, 2026 at 8:36pm ET
An AI coding agent just deleted an entire company's production database in 9 seconds.
An AI coding agent just deleted an entire company's production database and all its backups. In 9 seconds.
Source: Tom's Hardware
April 27, 2026 at 6:18pm ET
GPU spot prices just surged 114% in six weeks. Watch your AI vendor renewal.
GPU spot prices for NVIDIA's latest chips (B200) just surged 114% in the last six weeks. Most people assume AI infrastructure costs are falling.
Source: Tomasz Tunguz / Ornn Compute Price Index
April 27, 2026 at 12:35pm ET
The security tool built to protect you became the weapon used against you.
Software supply chain attacks have been a known threat for years. Security professionals have been worried.
Source: The Hacker News / Wiz Research / Aikido Security
April 14, 2026 at 9:36am ET
The most expensive part of your AI rollout isn't the software. It's the rework.
The most expensive part of your AI rollout isn't the software. It's the rework no one is tracking.
Source: CIO / Workday research
April 7, 2026 at 12:50pm ET
The token price curve assumes infrastructure that isn't being built.
Everyone is counting on AI tokens getting cheaper. That assumption depends on infrastructure that isn't being built on schedule.
Source: Tom's Hardware / Bloomberg / Wood Mackenzie
March 26, 2026 at 7:10pm ET
Data center capacity will nearly triple by 2030. The grid won't keep up.
McKinsey projects global data center capacity will nearly triple by 2030. AI workloads alone grow 3.
Source: McKinsey & Company / Gartner / IDC / Nvidia
March 26, 2026 at 7:25am ET
US data center buildout halved last quarter. The bottleneck is the grid.
Whatever happened to under-promise and over-deliver? 241 gigawatts of data center capacity announced.
Source: Paul Kedrosky / Wood Mackenzie
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