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W3C WAI front-end freelance developer | Angular & NativeScript maniac | DevOps enthusiast | QA evangelist | Crypto investor Travel addict | Summer & beach lover | Party animal | Hopeless Hedonist Citizen of the 🌍 based in 🇧🇬
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway set to make its biggest deal in three years https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/business/warren-buffett-oxychem-acquisition Berkshire Hathaway, the Warren Buffett-owned conglomerate, has announced its biggest deal in three years with the planned acquisition of OxyChem for $9.7 billion. This will be Buffett’s biggest deal since he paid $11.6 billion for Alleghany, an insurance company, in 2022. Buffett, 95, recently announced he was stepping down as CEO at the end of the year.
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SVG Security Analysis Toolkit to Detect Malicious Scripts Hidden in SVG Files As attackers increasingly leverage Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for stealthy code injection, security researchers face mounting challenges in detecting obfuscated payloads embedded within SVG assets. The SVG Security Analysis Toolkit by HackingLZ offers a comprehensive solution: a suite of four Python-based tools designed to reveal hidden scripts, decode obfuscated URLs, and verify protection mechanisms, all without exposing analysts to unsafe execution environments.
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OpenAI Valuation Soars to $500 Billion, Topping Musk’s SpaceX https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-completes-share-sale-record-043148719.html OpenAI has completed a deal to help employees sell shares in the company at a $500 billion valuation, propelling the ChatGPT owner past Elon Musk’s SpaceX to become the world’s largest startup.
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Apple halts Vision Pro overhaul to focus on AI glasses, Bloomberg News reports Apple has halted a planned overhaul of its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset to shift resources to smart glasses that would rival products from Meta Platforms, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And It Then Began to Glow A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a chain of atoms in single file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists in 2022 observed the equivalent of what we call Hawking radiation – particles born from disturbances in the quantum fluctuations caused by the black hole's break in spacetime.
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LNK Malware Uses Windows Binaries to Bypass Security Tools and Execute Malware A recent wave of attacks leveraging malicious Windows shortcut files (.LNK) has put security teams on high alert. Emerging in late August 2025, this new LNK malware distribution exploits trusted Microsoft binaries to bypass endpoint protections and execute payloads without raising suspicions.
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Charlie Javice sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraudulent $175M sale Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup company that promised to revolutionize the way college students apply for financial aid, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million by greatly exaggerating how many students it served.
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Gavin Newsom signs first-in-nation AI safety law https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/newsom-signs-ai-law-00585348 California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law on Monday that will force major AI companies to reveal their safety protocols — marking the end of a lobbying battle with big tech companies like ChatGPT maker OpenAI and Meta and setting the groundwork for a potential national standard.
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Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says Britain may already be at war with Russia because of the depth and intensity of cyber-attacks, sabotage and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow against the UK, according to a former head of MI5. Eliza Manningham-Buller, who led the domestic spy agency two decades ago, said she agreed with comments made by the Russia expert Fiona Hill, who argued in a Guardian interview earlier this year that Moscow was at war with the west.
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Notepad++ DLL Hijacking Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code A newly discovered DLL hijacking vulnerability in Notepad++, the popular source code editor, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on a victim’s machine. Tracked as CVE-2025-56383, the flaw exists in version 8.8.3 and potentially affects all installed versions of the software, putting millions of users at risk.
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Beware of Fake Online Speedtest Application With Obfuscated JS Codes A sophisticated malware campaign has emerged that leverages fake online speed test applications to deploy obfuscated JavaScript payloads on Windows systems. These malicious utilities masquerade as legitimate network speed testing tools, manual readers, PDF utilities, and various search frontends to deceive unsuspecting users into installing dangerous code that operates covertly in the background.
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