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# Former X-Force hackers chase the offensive cyber gold rush

**[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This is an aggregated news digest page listing headlines across AI, infosec, and open source topics. It includes a brief teaser about RemoteThreat, a startup founded by former IBM X-Force hackers that launched with $7 million in funding and 1,000 attack tools, aiming to serve enterprises and government agencies with AI-speed offensive cyber operations. Other listed items cover AMD's AI investment, phishing campaigns impersonating Signal support, a SharePoint zero-day, KDE's 30th anniversary, and Tailwind CSS's acquisition by Shopify.

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