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The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the witness chair. Casar chairs the Congressional Progressive
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OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on Monday. It is a model built on GPT-5.6 Sol and trained for zero-day discovery and exploit-chain development, and the company says it was also trained to refuse fewer higher-risk dual-use cyber requests. Access runs only through Daybreak, the vetted cybersecurity programme OpenAI is now
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If you’ve been holding out on buying Valve’s ludicrously expensive home console, you may have saved yourself from more than an empty wallet. European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or Steam Controller may be the victims of a personal information data breach after one of Valve’s
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Home privacy is a popular topic these days, as Flock surveillance cameras appear in our neighborhoods and AI voice assistants hang on our every word. But we also have more tools than ever to protect our privacy — as long as we use them. Don’t worry, your smart technology is
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The Steam Deck might be getting long in the tooth, but this maturity means there are a lot of software projects that support the device with interesting and new features. The latest addition is an app that recently became available in the Steam Store that will bring PlayStation cloud game
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As enterprises expand their use of cloud services, distributed applications, and AI-enabled operations, their digital environments are becoming more interconnected, dynamic, and operationally complex. Hybrid cloud architecture is a core framework for these modern enterprises connecting on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, public cloud services, and external dependencies. While this architecture offers
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European Steam Hardware customers, beware. If you made your order at any point in the three-month period leading up until roughly August 1st, 2026, your information has likely been compromised. This is because a cyberattack hit CEVA Logistics, Valve's shipping partner for customers in EU regions. CEVA'
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ai and ml What wouldst thou ask of the monkey's paw? An Australian man who asked his AI agent to book him a slot in a class at his local gym got more than he bargained for as the bot hacked into a waitlist and started messing with
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EDGE AND IOT No, no nasties to see here, guv... Cameras aboard Royal Navy drone boats were found phoning home to an IP address in China during a routine cyber vulnerability assessment. The UK Ministry of Defence confirmed the discovery, describing it as "an issue affecting a Kraken Unmanned
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Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering to access three employees' work computers. In a regulatory filing, the jeans maker said the intruders accessed and exfiltrated what it described only as "
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LexisNexis pulls three services offline after suspicious server activity Customers say issues began Wednesday and still not resolved LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline last week after detecting "unusual activity on servers that are hosted and managed by a third-party vendor." Non-public customer communications
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Managers were the prime targets in a single ransomware campaign. * Managers often have special privileges, making them tempting targets. * Training and network security are key to preventing such attacks. Ransomware attacks don't just
