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A team of IT security researchers has demonstrated how a cheaply manufactured adapter plug can circumvent Confidential Computing protections in modern processors, potentially exposing sensitive virtual machines to memory access attacks. The technique, dubbed DDROP, exploits a gap between how processors encrypt memory and how physical write operations are handled at the hardware level. The … Read more
The Special Investigation Team probing alleged financial irregularities in a proposed Lionel Messi event in Kerala searched the Reporter Broadcasting Company office in Kalamassery on Wednesday morning. Police also conducted searches at residences of the company’s directors in Kochi and Wayanad. According to investigation officer Bijoy Chandran, the searches were carried out based on a … Read more
Oracle released 673 new security patches this week as part of its quarterly Critical Security Patch Update, addressing more than 800 vulnerabilities across its product portfolio. The update resolves 672 unique CVEs documented across 17 risk matrices, plus an additional 130+ CVEs addressed through patches for other flaws. More than 100 of the newly patched … Read more
Karnataka’s Health Minister U.T. Khader announced on Friday that investigators have arrested the owner of a Bengaluru-based healthcare firm as part of a major crackdown on an interstate counterfeit drug racket supplying fake medicines and ICU injections to hospitals and clinics. The minister described it as one of the biggest seizures of its kind in … Read more
Healthcare services across Jammu and Kashmir faced mounting pressure as National Health Mission employees’ indefinite strike entered its seventh consecutive day on Tuesday, with demonstrations spreading from district hospitals to block-level health centres. The agitation, launched as a 72-hour protest on September 9 and subsequently extended, has severely disrupted routine medical services. At District Hospital … Read more
TypeSafe AI on Tuesday released Jev, a new AI model designed to communicate with software rather than people. The startup, which has raised $40 million in funding, argues that traditional language models are poorly suited for machine-to-machine workflows and built Jev to fill that gap. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, which return natural language text, Jev … Read more
Reef, an Apache-2.0 licensed system that converts inference logs into a versioned learning pipeline for both model weights and agent software, has been released by MIT researcher Ao Qu and a distributed group of AI researchers. The project targets a gap in the standard model lifecycle. That process—train, evaluate, deploy, serve—breaks down when agents are … Read more
Police allegedly fired tear gas at protesters in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Monday, according to demonstration participants, after tensions escalated over a proposed 11,000-megawatt hydropower project on the Siang River. Residents responded by blocking the road to the project site with boulders and temporary structures, further intensifying a standoff that has … Read more
The National Investigation Agency will take over the investigation into the killing of a couple in Manipur’s Tamenglong district, following a formal agreement between government officials and community representatives. Seikhoneh Singsit and Lhingjangai Singsit were killed in an armed attack at Tollen village on September 13. Their four children, aged 12, 10, 7, and 4, … Read more
Cognichip is betting that hardware engineers shouldn’t have to wait months to see their chip designs come to life. The startup today launched ACI Enterprise, a full-stack intelligence platform designed to compress lengthy semiconductor design cycles into a matter of days. The company has secured $93 million in funding from Lux Capital, Mayfield Fund, and … Read more