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Honeywell: OT Security Teams Embrace AI, but Autonomy Still Rare

Honeywell released its 2026 OT Cybersecurity Benchmark Report on Tuesday, and the findings point to a disconnect between how industrial organizations rate their operational technology (OT) security programs and how prepared they actually are. The report also examines AI’s impact on OT security.

Among 603 surveyed leaders across critical infrastructure sectors, 88% characterized their OT security programs as mature or design-led, yet only 21% maintain a complete inventory of their OT assets.

Respondents worked across critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, oil and gas, healthcare, maritime, and manufacturing, with participation spanning the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions.

Visibility gaps showed up in monitoring as well as inventory. Just 33% of respondents said OT is fully integrated into a centralized security operations center, and only 20% continuously monitor more than three-quarters of connected IoT devices.

Organizations that experienced a significant OT cybersecurity incident reported an average of 16.2 hours of downtime. Among...

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HypeAuditor: OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August, as it seeks new users

Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running

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Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally run apps and terminal commands complete control of the agent raises

Microsoft takes down EvilTokens service that used AI to turn stolen inboxes into payment fraud

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The takeaway: Cybercriminals used a subscription service called EvilTokens to steal access to Microsoft accounts and mine victims' inboxes for payment information, internal reporting lines and trusted business contacts. Microsoft said the platform&

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Samsung is tipped to add security chips to Galaxy phones and begin its crackdown on fake battery replacements

* Samsung is reportedly adding authentication chips to its Galaxy A Series of smartphones * Security chips will help distinguish safe, genuine batteries from fake third-party replacements * They also make the lithium recycling process a lot smoother Samsung could be making quite a big change to certain Galaxy Phone models — the Korean

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HypeAuditor: OpenAI doubled its sponsored Instagram posts promoting ChatGPT from 61 in June to 122 in July, rising again to 141 in August, as it seeks new users

Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw

Microsoft takes down EvilTokens service that used AI to turn stolen inboxes into payment fraud

Samsung is tipped to add security chips to Galaxy phones and begin its crackdown on fake battery replacements