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One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged as an effective attack technique that attackers, primarily financially motivated criminals, began using in the last year or so. Websites under the control of the attackers display a CAPTCHA that requires the visitor to copy a jumble of text and paste it into the terminal. The text contains scripts that, once entered, perform malicious actions, typically by installing malware or exfiltrating sensitive data. Ukraine’s CERT…

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On Thursday, Jim Cramer and portfolio director Jeff Marks convened the CNBC Investing Club’s July Monthly Meeting. They ran through each stock in the portfolio — calling out names to buy and places where we’d look to trim — before taking some questions from members. One of the big themes throughout the hourlong meeting: stocks that make parabolic moves must be trimmed. Emotion carries them higher to unsustainable levels, and emotion can be why they collapse without warning. That’s what is happening to a number of artificial intelligence winners in recent days, but Jim emphasized he doesn’t believe the fundamentals…

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Chinese startup Moonshot AI has unveiled a new model it says closes the gap with leading U.S. offerings and surpasses OpenAI and Anthropic’s most capable systems on some benchmarks.Kimi K3 still trails Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol on overall performance, the company said on Friday, but consistently outperformed other tested models. The model beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 — models that sit just behind Anthropic and OpenAI’s leading-edge systems — on benchmarks including coding and general agents, according to Moonshot. It’s China’s largest AI model so far, with 2.8 trillion parameters, referring to the…

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A giant banner depicting symbolic images of Iran’s late and current Supreme Leaders, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is displayed on an avenue in Tehran, Iran, on July 16, 2026, amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesIran on Friday claimed it had targeted U.S. military forces in Syria and Bahrain, widening its attacks in the region as the U.S. completed its sixth consecutive night of strikes on the Islamic Republic.The escalating standoff comes as the fragile truce signed by the U.S. and Iran last month showed further signs of unravelling. The…

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A sign at BP Plc petrol station in London, UK, on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBP and ConocoPhillips are set to announce billions of dollars of new investments in Iraq on Friday as Washington seeks to bolster the country’s energy sector and reduce the region’s reliance on routes vulnerable to Iranian disruption, according to people familiar with the plans. The announcements are expected during the U.S.-Iraq Business Summit in Washington, CNBC’s Brian Sullivan told Access Middle East, citing sources. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi will meet senior U.S. officials and executives from major energy companies at the…

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It’s a more interesting shape than the slab-sided SUVs we used to get. Jonathan Gitlin It’s a more interesting shape than the slab-sided SUVs we used to get. Jonathan Gitlin In addition to the four-cylinder engine and two electric motors, the silicon carbide inverter and other electronics are also in the engine bay. Toyota In addition to the four-cylinder engine and two electric motors, the silicon carbide inverter and other electronics are also in the engine bay. Toyota I worry this SUV devalues the GR sub-brand. Jonathan Gitlin I worry this SUV devalues the GR sub-brand. Jonathan Gitlin In addition…

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