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This seems to be the year of AI agents, and Meta is diving into the game. The company on Tuesday announced a new agent program called Muse, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes as a “personal agent” that understands your habits and goals. It’s available now in the US. Agentic
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akinbostanci/Getty Images ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW September 8, 2026 05:52 PM ET Three agencies issued a joint statement warning that Chinese companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI have used the tactics to extract billions of tokens from U.S. models. * Cyber Threats
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GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI brings greater depth and judgment to your most demanding tasks and runs on the Amazon Bedrock inference engine built for high performance, security, and scale. Organizations are already running AI agents that write code, analyze data, and automate complex workflows at production scale on Amazon Bedrock.
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Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a Federal courthouse in Manhattan on January 5, 2026 in New York City. XNY/Star
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* Kinryū Labs found misconfigured APIS database in Vietnam exposing 220M passenger and crew records * Data included PII, travel details, seat assignments, and baggage references from 2017–2026 * Archive locked and there is no evidence yet of dark web sale Millions of travellers have had their sensitive information exposed on the
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Keyword smuggling, which is the practice of obfuscating spam keywords to bypass detection filters, has been common practice for quite some time. Microsoft is warning that this traditional tactic has been enhanced by a new-school method of ASCII smuggling, which was originally used for AI prompt injection attacks. Now, ASCII
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Australia’s proposed “My Feed, My Way” plan would let users choose whether algorithms personalize their social media feeds. Image generated via ChatGPT Australia plans to let social media users choose algorithmic or follow-only feeds under new digital safety rules targeting platform design and control. Sep 8, 2026 Australians may
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LG drew the ire of customers when it was discovered that the software designed to accompany its monitors was installing itself and offering unwanted third-party offers on users’ systems. The company is facing a new, more furious round of backlash now that it has been revealed that its televisions are
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Adobe has released patches for more than 170 vulnerabilities across its products, including urgent hotfixes for a critical-severity flaw in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Tracked as CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS score of 10/10), the flaw is a code injection
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Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 8, 2026 02:05 PM ET The tools can speed up work that takes days or weeks, the agency’s cybersecurity chief said. * NSA * Data Governance * Billington CyberSecurity Summit 2026 The National Security Agency is leaning into
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The global technology market is speeding toward a multi-trillion-dollar valuation, driven heavily by aggressive enterprise cloud migration and hyper-scale AI adoption. Yet, a massive disconnect persists. Women-led startups and upskilled female professionals continue to face invisible, systemic barriers that keep them from capturing major enterprise contracts or securing executive seats.
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* Liquid Network hack exploited a bug in SideSwap, releasing 3,998 BTC (~$313M) to attackers * Hackers claimed “white‑hat” intent, returning 3,400 BTC after fixes, leaving 598 BTC missing * Network remains paused as Blockstream and Federation patch vulnerabilities and prepare safe restart The latest twist in the Liquid Network
