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Fake 'interview' repos lure Next.js devs into running secret-stealing malware

Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed ...

Researchers baked 3x inference speedups directly into LLM weights — without speculative decoding

Researchers from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore, Columbia and TogetherAI have developed a training technique that triples LLM inference speed without auxiliary models or infrastructure ...
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Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

The Missing Layer in Stablecoin Payments: Verifiable Intent for Agentic Commerce

The real thesis is simple. Stablecoins are not just about faster settlement. They are the most compatible execution layer for a world where machines participate in commerce, if the industry builds the ...