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ZDNET’s key takeaways * The disclosure of critical bugs in PHP leads to an urgent rush to patch. * Cybercriminals are likely to weaponize these vulnerabilities. * Organizations should act now to prevent exploitation. A flaw in PHP triggered a worldwide scramble to patch vulnerable websites, and now, further instructions have been
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Scientists can now talk to raw genetic code using ordinary English, and it doesn’t take a supercomputer to listen. AI platform Hugging Face on Thursday announced Carbon-X, an open-weight, 14.8-billion-parameter language model that lets researchers chat directly with DNA. Built in collaboration with Italy’s University of Naples
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President Donald Trump wants data center companies to make an offer residents may find harder to refuse: a financial benefit from hosting the infrastructure powering the AI boom. In an Oct. 21 Truth Social post, Trump urged data center operators to pay dividends to the communities hosting their facilities, arguing
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Google wants developers to build AI-powered applications on its new laptops, and it’s giving them something more useful than another chatbot: a Linux environment where AI agents can write code, install software, and execute commands. On Oct. 12, Google detailed its Linux Terminal Preview for Googlebook, a Debian-based development
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* Customers are increasingly enlisting AI agents to handle banking jobs for them * Banks are struggling to distinguish between human, legitimate AI and rogue activity * Many are now preparing for worst-case scenarios when AI does go rogue Several major US banks have detected third-party AI agents accessing their customers' bank
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Earlier this week, a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay a $25 billion fine for violating consumer protection laws dating back to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. $25 billion is a massive fine, the largest Meta has ever faced, but it still had us folks at WIRED wondering: Would Meta
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape
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The artificial intelligence and cybersecurity landscape has changed drastically in the past couple of weeks. On one hand we have seen major cybersecurity attacks threatening user data of organisations and people across the globe. On the other hand, we have seen India strengthen its AI regulation framework. These developments follow
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SecurityWeek’s weeklycybersecurity news roundupoffers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers stay
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My parents got a puppy a few months ago, and they decided to try out a smart dog doorbell to help with potty training. It didn’t go as planned, but it made me curious what else is out there. I went down a rabbit hole of puppy potty training
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The General Services Administration spent a number of months this year drafting a new clause to use in its contracts for the purchasing of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The original draft started too broadly, with the June version seemingly preventing ordinary services contractors from using AI tools in their work supporting
