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The Hacker News

21 min read

Security•2026-03-24

TeamPCP Backdoors LiteLLM Versions 1.82.7–1.82.8 Likely via Trivy CI/CD Compromise

TeamPCP compromised litellm Python package versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 by exploiting the package's use of Trivy in its CI/CD pipeline, embedding a three-stage malicious payload.

The Hacker News

21 min read

Security•2026-03-24

Tax Search Ads Deliver ScreenConnect Malware Using Huawei Driver to Disable EDR

A malvertising campaign active since January 2026 targets U.S.

Airbnb

51 min read

Machine Learning•2026-03-24

What COVID did to our forecasting models (and what we built to handle the next shock)

Airbnb explains how COVID broke their booking-to-trip forecasting models and the architectural changes they built to handle structural data shifts.

WebKit Features for Safari 26.4

Safari 26.4 ships 44 features and 191 fixes, with highlights in CSS layout, new Web APIs, and ongoing layout engine rewrites.

Hackers Use Fake Resumes to Steal Enterprise Credentials and Deploy Crypto Miner

This article covers the FAUX#ELEVATE phishing campaign targeting French-speaking corporate environments with fake resume files that deploy credential stealers and cryptocurrency miners.

Databricks

31 min read

Data Engineering•2026-03-24

Stop Hand-Coding Change Data Capture Pipelines

This post introduces AutoCDC in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines as a declarative alternative to hand-coded Change Data Capture and Slowly Changing Dimension pipelines.

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Databricks

11 min read

Data Engineering•2026-03-24

Google Cloud Use Cases: How Enterprises Run Data & AI on GCP with Databricks

This article covers how enterprises use Google Cloud Platform for data engineering and generative AI, with concrete architectural patterns and real-world use cases.

Data + AI Foundations

Databricks

31 min read

Security•2026-03-24

Databricks Announces Lakewatch: New Open, Agentic SIEM

Databricks announces Lakewatch, an open, agentic SIEM built on lakehouse architecture to counter AI-driven cyberattacks at machine scale.

Building the future of security with NAB with Lakewatch

Databricks introduces Lakewatch, an Open Security Lakehouse, built in partnership with National Australia Bank (NAB) to address modern AI-era cyber threats at enterprise scale.

Testing Font Scaling For Accessibility With Figma Variables

This article explains how to use Figma variables to test font size scaling for accessibility as part of everyday design workflows.

Cloudflare

41 min read

AI•2026-03-24

Sandboxing AI agents, 100x faster

This post introduces Cloudflare's Dynamic Worker Loader, an open beta API that sandboxes AI-generated code using V8 isolates instead of containers, enabling consumer-scale agent execution.