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* NordVPN blocked over 5 million malware attempts in January alone * 99% of phishing attacks impersonate just 300 brands * AI tools and fraud kits mean attackers no longer need advanced skills We are well past the days when a cyberattack meant mass-mailing a poorly spelled virus. In 2026, cybercriminals are heavily
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Kevin Carter/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 9, 2026 11:25 AM ET The bureau wants more frequent disruption operations and quicker warnings to victims as the Justice Department works through rules for expanded private sector participation in hacking cybercrime groups. * FBI * Cyber Defense * Industry * Billington
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This Tuesday, OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 as a new state-of-the-art image model for ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex. The update delivers faster image generation and more advanced editing tools than Images 2.0, which came out in April. OpenAI also says the model produces images with more natural
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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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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Google has mapped the brain and central nervous system of a fruit fly, and the dataset is already being used in an unlikely way: to train a simulated fly brain to
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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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Save $300: Apple is expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone later today, but it’s also rumored to come with a staggering $2,000 price tag. Plus, it’ll be quite a while before it goes on sale, which is why you should check out this Galaxy Z Fold
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* CISA, NSA, FBI warn Chinese AI firms of industrial‑scale knowledge distillation * Companies like DeepSeek, Moonshot, Alibaba allegedly extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models * Advisory urges detection of malicious prompts, deceptive responses to distillation, and cross‑provider intelligence sharing Chinese AI companies’ core development strategy is to steal
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Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature that will allow it to do more on its users’ behalf: it’s giving everyone Instinct email addresses. The company’s founder Noah Shinn said on Tuesday that the new email addresses
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An Anthropic researcher has resigned over fears that unrestrained development of self-improving AI models will end up killing us all. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who said in a social media post Tuesday evening that he spent the last three years working on pre-training research at both OpenAI and Anthropic, accused
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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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In Brief 7:51 AM PDT · September 9, 2026 Shipt, the same-day delivery platform owned by Target, is the latest delivery app to join the AI cart race. The company announced on Wednesday that its new “Ask Shipt” tool will help customers shop more intuitively and turn prompts into customized
