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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its
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President Donald Trump’s new plan to enlist private companies to help disrupt cybercriminals abroad may face a fundamental problem when it comes to Russia: distinguishing criminal hackers and state-backed operatives. Russian intelligence services have long tolerated, protected or intermittently recruited financially-motivated hackers without exercising full control over them. That
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OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements new procedures meant to address cybersecurity risks. The ChatGPT maker says it is introducing a number of new monitoring, security, and alignment requirements
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China is removing a government version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked entities to uninstall the customised software, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The instruction stemmed from data security concerns, they said. They
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Developers and beta testers have started to receive a release candidate for macOS Tahoe 26.7, and this upcoming version’s code base holds a lot of juicy tidbits regarding unannounced Apple products, including camera equipped AirPods. However, it’s not just snippets of code that point to the existence
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On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a new batch of new security policies focused on containing security incidents while models are being tested. The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process. “As models become
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By Venkat Lakshminarasimha – Executive Director, DISC, Solutions and Sales- India & Middle East at Dexian Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are entering a new era. While previously set up to lower costs in fields like technology, finance, operations, and back-office services, GCCs have become sources of innovation. Now we are witnessing
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Gettyimages.com / Fotograzia ByRoss Wilkers, Senior Staff Reporter August 18, 2026 12:56 PM ET The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a sources sought notice that describes its desire to bring in a company that can help manage enterprise license and materials purchases. * Contracts * CISA The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
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Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are expanding their offerings and adding AI agents. Common considerations for organizations when adding agentic workloads include security, scalability, time to market, and cost tracking. ISVs have another dimension, they provide services to other organizations and need to manage agentic workloads for each customer. As such,
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Apple has released an emergency macOS update that patches a critical flaw in its built-in Screen Sharing tool. The vulnerability (CVE-2026-65400) lets a remote attacker bypass authentication, log in without a password, and gain full control of a Mac, including root access. Government security agencies have already caught attackers abusing
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OREM, Utah, Aug. 18, 2026 – SecurityMetrics has won the ‘Cybersecurity Audit Team of the Year’ award from the Hacker News Award 2026. AI has made it easier for criminals to spread ransomware, find weaknesses in supply chains, and attack businesses. Cybersecurity tools and services have never needed to be more
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Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks | August 18, 2026 at 1PM ET- Register to Attend Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing cybersecurity. As patch-to-exploit timelines shrink and attackers move at machine speed, long-standing security models are being put to the test. Can detection-first security operations keep pace, or is it time
