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On Thursday OpenAI announced a new feature called Trusted Contact, designed to alert a trusted third-party if ideations of self-harm are expressed within a conversation. The feature allows an adult ChatGPT user to designate another person as a trusted contact within their account, such as a friend or family member.
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At the heart of the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a moment when they found common cause on an ever more pressing question: how to protect humanity from the risks of artificial intelligence. It turned sour, and the jury is charged with settling the ensuing
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When Anthropic announced its latest large language model, Claude Mythos, the news hit with a jolt. Anthropic wasn't putting out word that it was about to release Mythos -- it wanted the world to know that it would not release the frontier LLM. The unreleased Mythos preview showed
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Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael attends a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency event at DARPA Headquarters, Arlington, Va., April 29, 2026. Staff Sgt. Milton Hamilton/Air Force ByAlexandra Kelley, Staff Correspondent, Nextgov/FCW May 7, 2026 02:41 PM ET Defense Under Secretary for Research and
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Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked. That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. Once the hackers broke
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When Apple Intelligence debuted back at the 2024 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, the company claimed it would provide a vastly more useful Siri digital assistant, which was something Apple pushed hard to promote the iPhone at the time. However, these AI efforts simply haven’t come close to matching the
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National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross speaks on stage during Semafor World Economy 2026 on April 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Semafor World Economy May 7, 2026 01:21 PM ET The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act got a temporary revival as part of a funding package
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Happy World Password Day! Maybe it's finally time to kill this holiday in favor of World No-More-Passwords Day? It’s World Password Day, and there’s really no better way to celebrate than with news that a majority of supposedly secure password hashes can be cracked with a
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* A fake photo tool ranked high in search results tricks users into running malware via ClickFix tactics * Victims first get infected with CastleLoader, which then deploys NetSupport RAT and a custom CastleStealer * The campaign highlights how SEO poisoning and social engineering can turn simple tasks into credential theft and remote
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When Anthropic unveiled its new Mythos model in April, it also delivered a stern warning to anyone developing software. The model was so powerful at sniffing out software vulnerabilities, the lab claimed, that it had discovered thousands of high-severity bugs that would need to be fixed before it could be
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* Iranian APT MuddyWater posed as IT staff via Microsoft Teams, tricking victims into granting remote access * They deployed infostealers, altered MFA, exfiltrated data, and staged a Chaos ransomware infection as cover * Researchers concluded the true motive was espionage, not profit, highlighting state‑sponsored tradecraft overlap with criminal tactics Iranian state-sponsored
