Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation  —  Researchers identified what they believe is the first documented case of a ransomware operation, JadePuffer …

Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg:
A US federal judge orders the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality  —  A federal judge ordered the Pentagon to give Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. a reprieve from a law that caused all of its lobbyists to drop …

John Keilman / Wall Street Journal:
How companies like Nvidia and Neura Robotics are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks like a bipedal robot losing stability  —  Companies say electronics, sensors and engineering will allow the robots to work alongside people  —  Humanoid robots marched through …

As a prisoner in the Red Keep, Alicent Hightower has to find a new way to work with her old best friend.

Eli Tan / New York Times:
A look at Threads and an interview with Head of Threads Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with a community focus  —  Meta's office in San Francisco.  Threads aims to reach one billion users.Ian C. Bates for The New York Times