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By Sujato Guha Ray When an intelligent system is measured only by whether it succeeds, every rule risks becoming just another obstacle. During a job interview in San Francisco, a candidate interrupted the voice on the call. “Uh, excuse me miss, I can’t see your face, your camera is
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Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work that its general-purpose models will often refuse. GPT-5.6-Cyber is a fine-tuned version of OpenAI's most advanced general model, GPT-5.6 Sol, unveiled
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Every day seems to brings fresh news of an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromising Hugging Face, hacking a gym website, or creating its own fake profiles to socially engineer an intrusion, AI models are increasingly behaving like bad actors. So, the AI labs that make the models
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HR startup Rippling filed a lawsuit Monday accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents, according to the lawsuit seen by TechCrunch. The filing comes after Runlayer sued the HR startup last month, accusing it of breach of contract and stealing its product ideas. It’s
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CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC’s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.32 points, or 5.28%. Palo
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Levi Strauss has disclosed a breach that involved no software vulnerability at all. Attackers used social engineering to reach three employees’ work computers, then took corporate data out with them. The company set out the incident in a regulatory filing with the SEC on 7 August. Intruders accessed and exfiltrated
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TL;DR Corma raised $60M seed from Sequoia, Khosla, Coatue. Building first defensive cybersecurity foundation model. In simulations, AI attackers won 88%, defenders caught 12%. Already deployed at Fortune 100/500 orgs. Team from DeepMind and Unit 8200. In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of
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Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNET’s Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to the press in the U.S. Capitol on August 08, 2026 in Washington, DC. Senators worked through the night to pass a short-term funding extension. Finn Gomez/Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW August 10, 2026 05:25
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Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI DEF CON hackers expanded their efforts to provide free cyber-defenses to rural water systems in the US to include managed detection and response providers, digital twins, and AI agents. On Friday, at the annual hacker’s conference, DEF CON
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Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that controlling the security layer matters more than controlling the model. AWS announced at Black Hat USA 2026 this
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By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this means breaking out of their cybersecurity
