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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 8, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
New security papers show smart bulbs leaking data through light and reinforcement-learning attackers learning to evade edge intrusion detection
A companion study gives a quantitative framework for deciding where machine-learning intrusion detection can run in Internet of Things deployments.
A new study asks whether commodity smart light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs can carry digital data through brightness changes small enough that a person in the room would struggle to notice them. Smart bulbs are networked devices whose output…
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Autonomous Agents Move Into Cyber Offense
AI agents increasingly run end-to-end intrusions, chaining supply-chain footholds into privilege escalation and credential theft at machine speed, outpacing human and current automated defenses.
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