TECH NEWS
Autonomous agentic AI has a habit of going destructively rogue. It is unlikely we can stop this. Outerlimit has a solution focused on preventing any harm from rogue agents. New York-based Outerlimit has emerged from stealth with $16 million pre-seed funding raised from AlbionVC, Evolution Equity Partners, Crane Venture Partners
TECH NEWS
* ESET finds nearly half (49%) of UK SMBs have experienced an incident in the past year * Phishing, unpatched vulnerabilities, weak passwords, and alack of monitoring often to blame * AI-powered tools will prove a much bigger challenge for SMBs British small businesses are being hit by more cyberattacks than ever before,
TECH NEWS
Editorial independence is core to our work. Some links may earn us a commission, without influencing our opinions. Snapdragon, Intel and AMD laptops can look similar on paper, but their strengths differ. Here’s what to consider before choosing your next laptop. Prefer HTon Google Our Picks B0F8P844W2 B0F8P844W2 B0F8P844W2
TECH NEWS
Palo Alto Networks today announced Unit 42® Continuous Frontier AI Defense, an agentic offensive security service designed for enterprises that want to leverage gated capability models, including Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT, to perpetually find, validate, and remediate enterprise exposures before attackers can weaponize them. Threat actors
TECH NEWS
The notorious cybercrime and extortion group ShinyHunters claims it breached FBI systems and accessed sensitive information. The hackers claim to have compromised Criminal Justice, HR, and Medlink services, and say they now possess data on nearly all FBI agents and job applicants. To demonstrate their claims, they defaced a subdomain
TECH NEWS
AI is changing the cybersecurity battlefield—not by rewriting the rules of the game, but by dramatically accelerating the speed, scale and sophistication of attacks. For organisations, the challenge is no longer simply having more security tools; it is building teams with the skills, experience and operational readiness to respond
TECH NEWS
Check Point on Tuesday announced urgent patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in Management Server that has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Tracked as CVE-2026-93616 (CVSS score of 9.8), the security defect is described as a directory traversal and file upload issue that could allow unauthenticated attackers
TECH NEWS
Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launching a VPN built for AI agents rather than
TECH NEWS
What it found instead says more about the bounty market than about the agent. Last week, I ran an experiment. I gave an OpenAI Codex agent a single goal: earn the first real payment from an open-source bounty, using a local orchestrator I am building (CodeGraph Studio) to dispatch worker
TECH NEWS
AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process. As that work gets longer, raw intelligence is only part of what matters.
TECH NEWS
ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for compromising systems belonging to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with the group defacing an official FBI job application portal and claiming it obtained sensitive information belonging to FBI personnel and people who applied for jobs at the agency. Hackread.com observed the
TECH NEWS
That access should enable assessors to challenge our assumptions, identify risks we may have missed, and reach their own conclusions about the effectiveness of our safeguards. OpenAI published that on Tuesday, in a document setting out what it wants outside safety assessors to do. Lama Ahmad wrote it. She leads
