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A senior cybersecurity staffer from a Fortune 500 organization learned something alarming and unexpected during a recent training session at Black Hat USA: Because his company's MCP server wasn't secured properly, anyone on the conference's public network could have gained write-access to its EDR
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OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s history—which spans across its AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment divisions. The ChatGPT-maker says it has slowed down research, spent millions of dollars, and told several teams to drop everything to focus
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Apple has sent out a new batch of notifications to customers who it suspects have been targeted with spyware capable of hacking into their devices. The tech giant sends out these notifications on occasion to alert its customers that their iPhones, iPads, or Macs might have been compromised with spyware
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Today on Uncanny Valley, Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger break down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word AI manifesto and why it ultimately rings hollow. Plus, why are job seekers scheduling bot-run interviews at 1 am? WIRED's Andy Greenberg also joins to unpack the best
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* China launched a fully autonomous vulnerability hunting attack against Taiwan * The attack leveraged eight open-source AI models to hunt for new attack vectors * The attack hit Taiwan government accounts, personnel records, the nuclear safety agency, and more A first-of-its-kind cyberattack using autonomous AI has been spotted attacking Taiwan, and it
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There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They often have to sell more shares than they want or risk offending some of their existing VCs. This scenario recently played out with AI big-data company Databricks and its latest $5
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The attacker is already inside. Not hypothetically – statistically. Nearly half of organizations that experienced a production security incident last year were breached through a vulnerability their own team had already identified. They knew it was there. They just didn’t get to it in time. On June 10, CISA decided
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IBM on Thursday announced its partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise customers, opening another avenue for OpenAI to connect with some of the world’s largest companies through IBM’s global consulting business as competition for corporate AI spending intensifies. The
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Google delivered its excellent Pixel Buds 2a and Pixel Buds Pro 2 last year, and the company is continuing to put in the work to make these earbuds even better. An upcoming software update will bring a bevy of new features that will have something for just about every user,
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The Bold Bureau/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW August 13, 2026 03:09 PM ET Nick Marinos, the managing director of IT and cybersecurity issues at GAO, said leveraging existing avenues for cybersecurity information sharing can expedite getting AI safety policies into law. * Artificial Intelligence * GAO * Congress
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The Trump administration is launching a new program that will allow private firms to perform cyberattacks against foreign criminals, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The private firms would operate “under the control and oversight” of the federal government, giving them permission to surveil and disrupt criminal networks, according to a
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What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research examining how groups of AI agents behave when they encounter each other in the wild. The findings provide a glimpse into
