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OpenAI’s new Codex macOS app is about managing coding agents, not just prompts

OpenAI has released a macOS desktop app for Codex, its coding-focused AI tool, moving beyond command-line and IDE extension interfaces. Ars Technica reports the app is designed around managing multiple coding agents in parallel—sometimes over hours—similar to the workflow popularized by Anthropic’s Claude Code. The interesting shift isn’t “a new client.” It’s that the user […]

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Microsoft says a Windows update bug can prevent shutdown—what’s affected and the workaround

Microsoft has expanded guidance on a Windows shutdown bug triggered by January 2026 updates, confirming it affects more systems than first reported. According to BleepingComputer, the issue can cause some devices to restart instead of shutting down or entering hibernation when specific security configurations are enabled. For most users, the symptom looks like “my PC

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Notepad++ update hijack: what the six-month breach teaches about updater trust

Notepad++ says its update traffic was hijacked for months in 2025, with attackers intercepting and selectively redirecting some users to malicious infrastructure. BleepingComputer reports the compromise began in June 2025 and ended on December 2, after the hosting provider detected the breach and cut off access. The incident is a useful reminder that “download over

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The Arctic is getting louder and narwhals are getting quieter: why underwater noise matters

The Arctic Ocean is getting louder—more ships, more industrial activity, more tourism—and narwhals appear to be responding by getting quieter. Reporting summarized by Ars Technica (from Inside Climate News) points to field research in Canada’s Eclipse Sound suggesting that narwhals reduce vocal activity and change feeding behavior when ships pass nearby. That matters because narwhal

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Western Digital expands buybacks as AI lifts storage demand: what it means

Western Digital’s reported decision to add $4 billion to its share repurchase authorization is the kind of corporate action that looks simple from the outside: the company will buy its own stock. But in the storage and memory business—where demand swings can be violent, capital spending is enormous, and “AI” can change product mixes faster

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PSNI’s £7,500 breach payout offer shows how disclosure mistakes become safety incidents

A one-size-fits-all compensation offer after a data breach can look like a clean resolution: pay everyone the same, close the book, move on. But when the victims are police staff—and the leaked data can translate into real-world targeting—“moving on” isn’t just emotional. It can involve relocation, disrupted careers, and long-term safety planning. The latest reporting

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Amaranth-Dragon exploiting a WinRAR flaw shows how fast espionage actors weaponize public bugs

A “new” espionage actor name doesn’t matter on its own. What matters is the operating pattern: how quickly a group can weaponize a newly disclosed bug, what that says about the defender’s patch window, and what kinds of organizations are being singled out. Reporting and published research describe a threat actor dubbed Amaranth-Dragon, assessed as

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Non-human identities are a breach engine: why tokens and service accounts keep getting exposed

Non-human identities—API keys, tokens, service accounts, workload identities—are now one of the easiest ways into modern cloud environments. Not because attackers suddenly became geniuses, but because organizations increasingly run on machine-to-machine trust, and that trust is often overbroad, long-lived, and poorly monitored. A new analysis highlighted in reporting points to a familiar pattern at huge

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Microsoft taps Hayete Gallot as security chief: what it signals for the Secure Future Initiative

Microsoft is changing who leads its security organization — again — and this time the move is tightly tied to a broader story the company has been telling for the last two years: security has to become a first-class engineering priority, not a compliance checkbox or a post-incident cleanup. According to an internal memo from

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