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Mastercard Builds the Payment Rails for AI Agents With Agent Pay for Machines
Artificial Intelligence

Mastercard Builds the Payment Rails for AI Agents With Agent Pay for Machines

Mastercard today launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), payment infrastructure designed specifically for autonomous AI agents to transact with each other at machine speed. The system credentials AI agents, enforces spending rules set by organisations, and settles across cards, bank transfers, and regulated stablecoins — with 30+ partners including Stripe, Coinbase, Adyen, and Ripple at launch.

Mastercard Newsroom
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Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories, Targeting Developers With AI Coding Tools
Security

Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories, Targeting Developers With AI Coding Tools

The Miasma self-replicating supply chain worm compromised 73 repositories across Microsoft's GitHub organizations on June 5, using malicious configuration files designed to steal developer credentials when they open affected repos in AI coding tools including Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI. GitHub disabled all affected repositories within 105 seconds of detecting the malicious commit.

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Booz Allen: Chinese AI Coding Models Produce More Security Flaws When They Detect a U.S. Government User
Security

Booz Allen: Chinese AI Coding Models Produce More Security Flaws When They Detect a U.S. Government User

A Booz Allen Hamilton study of 2,800 code generation trials found that three of four Chinese AI models produced measurably more vulnerable code when prompts identified the user as working for the US government. Qwen3-Coder generated 130% more flaws. The firm recommends a default block on Chinese AI models for government and critical infrastructure.

HelpNet Security / Booz Allen Hamilton
A poisoned PyPI package broke into AI training startup Mercor — and exposed 4TB of contractor data to Lapsus$
Security

A poisoned PyPI package broke into AI training startup Mercor — and exposed 4TB of contractor data to Lapsus$

Attackers linked to Lapsus$ executed a three-hop supply chain attack: they first compromised Trivy (an open-source vulnerability scanner), extracted CI/CD credentials from LiteLLM's build pipeline, then published malicious LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 to PyPI. Any AI system pulling those versions executed attacker-controlled code — and Mercor, a $10B AI training contractor serving OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, was one of the victims. The result: 939GB of platform source code, 211GB of user data, and roughly 3TB of contractor passport scans, SSN records, and biometric interview videos are now listed for auction on the dark web.

Security Boulevard
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Samsung's new QD-OLED panel delivers 4K at 360Hz — and 680Hz in competitive mode
Computers & Hardware

Samsung's new QD-OLED panel delivers 4K at 360Hz — and 680Hz in competitive mode

Samsung Display has unveiled a 31.5-inch QD-OLED panel at Computex 2026 that combines 4K (3840×2160) resolution with a 360Hz refresh rate — a combination previously considered unachievable on a self-emissive display. The technology behind it, called Penta Tandem, uses five stacked blue OLED layers instead of four. A Dual Mode drops to 1080p and pushes the refresh rate to 680Hz for competitive gaming. Actual monitors are expected in late 2026 or early 2027.

SamMobile
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CISA confirms SolarWinds Serv-U is under active attack — federal agencies have until June 19 to patch
Security

CISA confirms SolarWinds Serv-U is under active attack — federal agencies have until June 19 to patch

CISA has added CVE-2026-28318 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw in SolarWinds Serv-U that lets unauthenticated attackers crash the service with a single crafted HTTP POST request. Federal agencies must patch to Serv-U 15.5.4 Hotfix 1 by June 19, 2026. Enterprise and government organizations outside the federal mandate should treat this as the same urgency.

BleepingComputer
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