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Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion over two years to widen AI access in health, education and agriculture, warning of a rich-poor divide.

The Gates Foundation's 2026 Goalkeepers report outlines spending of at least $1 billion over two years on AI access in health, education and farming. Gates notes over 90% of early LLM training data was English, with speech recognition error rates below 6% in English but above 60% in Yoruba. Cited projects include Penda Health clinics in Kenya (16-point diagnostic accuracy gain), Gemini Guided Learning in Sierra Leone (1.7 years of learning gains in eight weeks), and India's MahaVISTAAR reaching 740,000+ farmers at under 18 cents per person.

The Decoder14:26 UTC · 7h agoAI industry1

Top 10 Best Kubernetes Security Tools in 2026

Top 10 Kubernetes security tools roundup highlights Sysdig and Aqua as specialists plus strong free options Kubescape, Calico, and Falco.

A buying guide ranks ten Kubernetes security tools across admission control, network policy, runtime detection, and posture management. Sysdig leads runtime depth, Aqua leads full lifecycle, Red Hat ACS owns OpenShift estates, and Wiz offers agentless graph correlation. The guide notes this category has cloud security's strongest open-source floor with Kubescape, Calico, and Falco.

Cyber Security News06:41 UTC · 15h agoIndustry

Hackers Advertise Uncensored Luciferus AI Service on Underground Forums

Sophos CTU found Luciferus, an uncensored criminal AI subscription service on the Exploit forum that returned RAT source code on request.

Sophos Counter Threat Unit discovered Luciferus advertised on August 24, 2026 on the Exploit forum by persona 'Optimus_Prime', claiming a proprietary 120-billion-parameter uncensored model that analysts assess with low confidence may be built on Alibaba's Qwen. Subscriptions run $35-$75 monthly, with a VIP 'Individual Embodiment' tier offering a separately deployed model trained on customer data. In testing, the Junior model generated Python remote-access-trojan source code, though Sophos did not execute or verify it. The service extends the WormGPT/FraudGPT lineage into structured commercialization with tiered pricing resembling mature SaaS businesses.

Cyber Security News14:59 UTC · 7h agoAI safety & security

Apple Patches 200 Vulnerabilities With New iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 Releases

Apple patched a record 200+ vulnerabilities in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate 27, including 20 kernel flaws; none exploited in the wild.

Apple's iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 releases fix roughly 126 security flaws, 20 of them in the kernel, while macOS Golden Gate 27 addresses 210 vulnerabilities, about 100 shared with the mobile release. macOS Tahoe 26.7 patches 153 unique CVEs, including 26 kernel defects that could cause memory corruption, privilege escalation, system termination, and information leaks. Notable fixes include CVE-2026-64752, a CoreMedia memory corruption flaw allowing iPhone compromise via a malicious image, and CVE-2022-3437, a heap buffer overflow in Heimdal Samba enabling denial-of-service. Apple states none of the patched flaws are known to be exploited in the wild.

SecurityWeek11:06 UTC · 11h agoVulnerability CVE-2022-3437 CVE-2026-647521· 1 read

The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patchesnew

Apple's record patch cycle fixes 260+ CVEs across iOS 27 and macOS 27, including CUPS remote code execution, with no active exploitation reported.

Apple patched more than 260 CVEs across its operating systems and software, its largest single patch cycle ever, with iOS 27 fixing 122 flaws and macOS 27 Golden Gate fixing 204. Notable bugs include CVE-2026-43692, a CUPS validation issue allowing remote code execution, and CVE-2026-43689, an iOS privilege-escalation flaw granting root access. Ten CVEs were credited to AI-assisted bug hunting, including CVE-2026-65410 and CVE-2026-65409 found by Calif with Claude and Anthropic Research. None of the vulnerabilities are listed as actively exploited.

The Register · Security21:38 UTC · 42m agoVulnerability CVE-2026-65410 CVE-2026-65409 CVE-2026-43689+10 CVEs

12 Best CNAPP Platforms Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

Independent comparison of 12 CNAPP platforms finds identical estates draw quotes 2-3x apart; Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the only fully published per-resource option.

A vendor-independent buyer's guide compares twelve CNAPP platforms including Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Wiz, Uptycs, Aqua, Zscaler, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud on pricing mechanics, procurement leverage, and capability-per-dollar. It finds quotes swing 2-3x on identical estates because vendors define 'workload' differently. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is highlighted as the only major with fully published per-resource rates.

GBHackers06:49 UTC · 15h agoIndustry1