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Google disclosed this week that an unknown group of attackers actively weaponized a zero-day security flaw inside the cellular modem of its Pixel smartphones before engineers could fix it. Tracked as CVE-2026-58704, the high-severity defect allows unauthorized actors to allow an adjacent attacker to escalate privileges without requiring the victim
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New York, NY, September 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire As bipartisan legislation demands verifiable agent controls, the Advanced AI Society releases the Proof-of-Control v1.0 draft for public comment and hosts “Who’s Watching the Machines?” event with Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust As bipartisan Congressional proposals demand continuous agent verification and third-party
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New York, NY, September 17th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--As bipartisan legislation demands verifiable agent controls, the Advanced AI Society releases the Proof-of-Control v1.0 draft for public comment and hosts "Who's Watching the Machines?" event with Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust As bipartisan Congressional proposals demand continuous agent
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As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: agents can act faster, longer and at greater volume than humans can realistically review. That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating
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ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology September 17, 2026 04:11 PM ET The Homeland Security Department is working against a compressed timeline to make awards for this contract to centralize IT operations at headquarters and across components. * Contracts The Homeland Security Department has released the procurement schedule for what could
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How should the tech industry approach the topic of AI safety? Increasingly, high-level executives are weighing in on this question, as a debate rages over whether incidents like the Hugging Face incident — in which an OpenAI agent hacked several different companies — suggest that AI is on the verge of throwing
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An article from The prioritization comes at a time of relatively modest growth in overall security investments, according to IANS and Artico Search. Published Sept. 17, 2026 First published on This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. AI is now the leading driver behind new
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Highlights * Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety * Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse * What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development * Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI Inside the suddenly explosive
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Grand Theft Auto VI is arguably the most anticipated video game of all time, commanding enough attention to showcase a gameplay video that debuted exclusively on Netflix. Although its upcoming release is a bittersweet one for fans of physical media, since Rockstar announced there will be no disc version of
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AI has altered enterprise risk dynamics, although that transformation hasn't resulted in the uniformly threatening direction many security professionals assume. Like any new technology, AI introduces new risks. It also helps mitigate existing ones. Consider a firm using a customer support chatbot. This can result in new dangers
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* US law enforcement seized Nightmare Stresser domains, a long‑running DDoS‑for‑hire platform * Service enabled hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022; FBI banner now replaces sites * Part of Operation PowerOFF, which has seized 100+ domains and charged 12 people so far US law enforcement agencies disrupted yet another
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The Boox Palma 3 (left) combines a pocket-sized E Ink screen with Android apps, while the Kindle Paperwhite (right) offers a larger display built primarily for reading. Image generated via ChatGPT Boox Palma 3 vs Kindle Paperwhite: compare price, apps, storage, battery life, waterproofing, and whether Android flexibility is worth
