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Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries from testing through deployment. The platform has two main parts. One of them is OpenShell, an open source runtime that sandboxes agents and enforces
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AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13 April and 19 June. They used proxies and an encoding trick to get round limits on its API, Rowan Howard-Jones wrote in a blog post on 26 September. Howard-Jones
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Forty-one percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) reported at least one social engineering incident involving a deepfake during an employee audio call in the previous 12 months, and 36% reported one during a video call, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. The
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No sooner had Akamai flagged up the AI security tipping point represented by Anthropic’s Project Glasswing than it has just signed its largest ever contract with…Anthropic! The seven-year, non-exclusive deal, worth a likely total of around $11.6 billion, will see Akamai work with the frontier model provider
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The most revealing word in the recent AI security incidents may be the smallest one. A website says no. A credential is unavailable. A system blocks access. A sandbox is supposed to prevent an agent from reaching the internet. For conventional software, that should be the end of the transaction,
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Meta’s new AI agent Muse took the spotlight at the company’s annual Connect event, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that Facebook’s parent company plans to push AI features everywhere. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I
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The Tech Panda takes a look at the efforts at skilling, upskilling, and reskilling in the tech industry. Sustainability: CII-Green Business Centre Builds a National Bridge Between Academia and Industry The Confederation of Indian Industry’s Green Business Centre (CII-GBC) is strengthening the bridge between academia and industry through its
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Cybersecurity has had no shortage of new companies and ideas this summer. Behind some of the most interesting developments are founders who have spent years working on the problems they are now trying to solve. Their companies span different parts of the security stack, but they share a focus on
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* AI coding agent mishandled Windows junctions, deleting ~48,000 live files and corrupting Git object database * Incident surfaced on Reddit, with community mocking lack of backups and calling it “classic FAFO” * Lesson stressed: always use remote version control (e.g., GitHub) before letting AI touch production work A catastrophic incident
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While other industries such as banking have undergone a major technological revolution in the last few years, insurance has remained pretty much the same for centuries — at least as far as the consumer is concerned. Sure, the way in which insurance operations have been transformed by AI may be profound.
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All too often, choosing an outdoor security involves some element of compromise. Do you go for one that provides a wide panoramic view, but which struggles to get close-ups of possible ‘suspects’? Or do you consider a pan-and-tilt camera which is great for close ups but rubbish when it comes
