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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. AI labs are shipping new models nonstop. Besides being better and faster than their predecessors, however, every new model isn't guaranteed to be a major step change, despite how the company's PR may wax poetic about
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Data security is a non-negotiable strategic imperative cloaked with business implications for risk management and competitive advantage. Organizations today face ever-increasing cybersecurity risks -- both internal and external. Safeguarding data against financial losses, regulatory penalties and reputational damage is not merely a technical issue; it is an enterprise priority. To
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* Check Point’s 2026 Cloud Security Report warns AI is overwhelming cloud defenses * While 77% updated cloud strategies, only 26% have architectures capable of enforcing them * Researchers urge a unified, prevention‑first architecture Artificial Intelligence is cracking cloud security at high speeds and security teams just can’t keep up.
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* Researchers at Graz University of Technology unveiled FROST, a browser side‑channel attack * The method can reveal visited websites and opened desktop apps, but requires large file creation * Limitations exist, yet the study highlights how modern browser features expand the attack surface for surveillance Security researchers have come up with
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Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers pretend to be the app’s
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Anthropic has snagged another $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup’s last private round before debuting on the public markets. The Series H round was co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners
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Attackers use AI to increase velocity, scale and sophistication. Just as AI is improving, so will attackers’ use of it. GreyVibe is one to watch. GreyVibe, a previously undocumented threat actor, is described by WithSecure as a Russia-nexus group. The researchers are confident in their attribution of GreyVibe to Russian-speaking
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Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale work. The model is
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TL;DR Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship AI model that is four times less likely to let code flaws pass unremarked. The company also teased Mythos-class models, which have already found more than 10,000 critical software vulnerabilities through Project Glasswing, and announced
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Prison calling service Pay Tel has secured a publicly exposed cloud server storing hundreds of thousands of driver’s licenses and other sensitive information about people who used its services, according to a cybersecurity firm that alerted the company to the security lapse. Security researchers with UpGuard said in a
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Artificial Intelligence Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s most advanced Opus model, Claude Opus 4.8, on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Opus 4.8 represents a meaningful step forward, delivering improvements across the workflows teams run in production, from agentic
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DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s frontier labs. The reduction on DeepSeek V4 Pro directly undercuts comparable Western models used as workhorses
