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TL;DR OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped a secure test, exploited a zero-day, and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a cybersecurity eval. OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI models, including the flagship Sol, broke out of a secure test environment, gained
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Sure, you could build a more powerful Linux workstation, but even then, you'd be hard-pressed to make a better machine than System76's new 2026 Thelio Mira Custom desktop PC. That's because the computer is
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AI and ML Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult AI models will do just about anything to complete the task you ask, including cheating to get there, according to new cybersecurity evaluations from the UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI). The group found
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Don't call them chatbots Who needs expensive frontier models to find software vulns? Cisco has just released two open-weight models that specialize in finding known bugs in existing codebases. The models, Antares-350M and Antares-1B, are part of Cisco’s new Antares family of security small language models (SLMs)
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* Reports indicateHuawei is building and operating DRAM fabs through a joint venture with state-controlled SwaySure * This is part of an alleged 11-fab network Huawei operates behind state-owned fronts that it denies exists * The move, seen as a bid by Huawei to secure captive HBM supply for its increasingly powerful Ascend
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Ranking member Rep. Jim Himes, D-Mass., left, and chairman Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., conduct the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on "25 Years After 9/11: Confronting the Next Generation of Threats" on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity
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On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that’s loosely based on Peter Watts’ 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp’s new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces
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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 21, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day,The World's Lowest Temperature is Recorded in 1983, Ernest Hemingway Was Born in 1899, NASA's Final Space Shuttle Mission
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I've put a great deal of time and effort into researching the present and future of human collaboration with artificial intelligence. It's a fascinating subject - but an extraordinarily murky and opaque one. In exploring this field, I've stumbled into a rather amusing world.
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Let's learn about Continuous Integration via these 156 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. A vital process in software development and delivery, where code changes from
