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OpenAI has flagged its upcoming AI model, Astra, for potentially reaching a ‘critical’ cybersecurity risk threshold, prompting the company to suspend internal development activities that lack newly mandated security controls. Recent internal evaluations of Astra revealed massive leaps in its agentic coding and cybersecurity abilities. Under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework,
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Meta is putting its money (and AI models) where its mouth is. The company said Monday that its latest model is built specifically for AI agents. Meta Glimmer is out now and is built to run on your laptop or PC. Meta Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter model, which sounds
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A secure password can be hard to remember. It’s long and littered with symbols and numbers you may struggle to recall. That difficulty helps explain why nearly half of US adults (49%) end up with risky password habits, according to a 2025 CNET survey: It’s a lot easier
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Newly revealed security research found that until recently, marketing tech giant Klaviyo was inadvertently sharing the sign-up information of its new customers, including their passwords, with outside advertisers. Sam Jadali, a security researcher and co-founder of cybersecurity startup Melurna, told TechCrunch that the web form on Klaviyo’s sign-up page
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Ceva Logistics, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely on Ceva for shipping their products to their customers say that their personal information was also stolen in the breach. The cyberattack on Ceva is affecting at least eight warehouses across
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Use of accelerators is growing in line with the growth of AI. These accelerators are specialized chips that are neither CPUs nor GPUs – they specifically offload and speed up the precise workloads required for AI. Primary producers include Tenstorrent, Groq, Cerebras, Graphcore, and Google. Neo-clouds are new but increasingly available
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* Attackers stole extensive personal and medical data from 3.8 million individuals from Unlimited Technology Systems * Breach source and methods remain unknown, with no group claiming responsibility * Stolen data poses major fraud risks, prompting free identity monitoring from Kroll US healthcare organization Unlimited Technology Systems has revealed it suffered a
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* Oversecured found 176 vulnerabilities across Samsung’s preinstalled mobile apps * Flaws enabled account takeover, code execution, and traffic hijacking via bloatware * Samsung patched all reported issues, affecting hundreds of millions of devices Security researchers from Oversecured have given “bloatware” an entirely new meaning, revealing that they uncovered 176 vulnerabilities -
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Blue Cloud Softech Solutions’ US subsidiary, BCSSL-USA, has signed a Statement of Work with SpaceX International Ltd, Malaysia, with a minimum contractual commitment of $150 million over 18 months for AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, telecommunications and data centre solutions. The agreement, issued under a Master Services Agreement signed in July 2026,
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Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touch that production system, or commit the company to an external action. Those are different problems, and most enterprises are only solving the first one. An AI agent can follow its
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* Attackers used social engineering to access Levi’s network and steal corporate data * Details on stolen information, methods, and perpetrators remain largely undisclosed * Voice‑phishing extortion groups are suspected, though no one has claimed responsibility Levi Strauss has revealed it recently suffered a cyberattack and lost corporate files - however
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DEF CON – Tenet security researchers have demonstrated a novel AI hijacking attack that relies on tools trusted by the agent to deliver malicious instructions. The Israeli cybersecurity startup, which emerged from stealth mode in June to protect organizations from rogue agents, previously demonstrated how threat actors can poison data fed
