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Hugging Face AI breach is ‘most consequential hack’ since Morris Worm, former NSA cyber chief says

(L to R) Former National Security Agency cybersecurity director Rob Joyce and fellow former NSA cybersecurity director Dave Luber speak with Vice President of Global Cyber at World Wide Technology Chris Konrad at an Aug. 5 World Wide Technology panel held at the Black Hat cyber conference. David DiMolfetta/Staff

ByDavid DiMolfetta,
Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW

August 5, 2026 01:32 PM ET

AI may let hackers exploit newly disclosed software flaws so quickly that organizations should weigh whether to immediately patch internet-connected devices, even at the risk of causing outages, Rob Joyce said.

LAS VEGAS — An OpenAI system that broke out of a cybersecurity test and entered Hugging Face’s network was a “watershed moment” comparable to the 1988 Morris Worm infection, former National Security Agency cybersecurity director Rob Joyce said Wednesday.

“We’re living in the last several weeks through with what I think is...

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Xebia Named OpenAI Select Partner for Agentic AI

Xebia, a global AI-first digital transformation and engineering partner, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep

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Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China

After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia’s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 of the processors in recent weeks, according to the Financial Times, with other Chinese groups expected to secure similar volumes

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Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in

Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Tuesday that makes Pennsylvania one of the harder places in America to build an AI data centre. The order strips data centres from the state’s permit fast-track programme, blocks environmental review until developers have secured local approval, and bars state agencies

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Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new

Cerebras has put three of its dinner-plate-sized processors into a single rack for the first time. The CS-4, unveiled on Tuesday at the company’s Supernova event and shipping this quarter, is pitched as an inference machine for frontier models, and Cerebras says it runs them up to 30 times

AI may let hackers exploit newly disclosed software flaws so quickly that organizations should weigh whether to immediately patch internet-connected devices, even at the risk of causing outages, Rob Joyce said.

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Xebia Named OpenAI Select Partner for Agentic AI

Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China

Pennsylvania just made itself one of the hardest US states to build a data centre in

Cerebras launches the CS-4, its first multi-wafer system, though the chip inside is not new