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Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked via AI Tool Abuse

Meta says roughly 20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack abusing an AI-powered account recovery support tool.

Hackers compromised many Instagram accounts simply by asking Meta’s chatbot to link their own email address to the targeted account. This enabled the hackers to reset the account password and take control of it.

Many high-profile accounts were reportedly compromised and sold on the dark web. The list of impacted accounts included those of the Obama White House, Sephora, and US Space Force Chief Master Sergeant John Bentivegna.

Some cybercriminals shared videos and instructions on how the attack worked.

Meta is now informing authorities about the incident’s impact, telling the Maine Attorney General’s Office that the total number of potentially affected individuals is 20,225.

However, Amber Hannah, Meta’s associate general counsel for incident response legal, indicated that the total number could actually be smaller. The company has counted users...

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SolarWinds Patches Exploited Serv-U Vulnerability

The US cybersecurity agency CISA on Friday warned of attacks targeting a SolarWinds Serv-U vulnerability that had been patched a couple of days earlier. Tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score of 7.5), the bug is described as a denial-of-service (DoS) issue that can be exploited via specially crafted POST requests

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Checking in on AI at Hyatt Hotels, where human and artificial intelligence have a double room

Technology should enhance the human connection not replace critical thinking or judgment or human connectivity. As a statement of the importance of human intelligence sitting alongside its artificial counterpart, that’s one that chimes pretty much with diginomica’s worldview. It comes from Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of Hyatt Hotels. Talent

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When old is new again - how Context Engineering could be the key to narrowing the gap between AI capabilities and production value

Uber’s run through its annual token budget in four months, Walmart’s capping use, and Sam Altman knows people are complaining about the problem of AI overspend, but doesn’t really get why it’s suddenly a big deal. Those are just a few of the public manifestations we’

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Beyond hyperscale: How Vultr is rewiring AI infrastructure with sovereignty, cost efficiency, and platform engineering

At a time when enterprises are racing to operationalise AI, the real bottleneck is no longer ambition—it is infrastructure. The traditional hyperscale cloud model, once the default choice for digital transformation, is now being re-evaluated under the weight of rising costs, regulatory pressures, and the growing complexity of AI

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SolarWinds Patches Exploited Serv-U Vulnerability

Checking in on AI at Hyatt Hotels, where human and artificial intelligence have a double room

When old is new again - how Context Engineering could be the key to narrowing the gap between AI capabilities and production value

Beyond hyperscale: How Vultr is rewiring AI infrastructure with sovereignty, cost efficiency, and platform engineering