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LinkedIn is taking aim at one of the biggest problems facing professional networks: the explosion of low-quality, AI-generated content designed to appear insightful, authoritative, and useful, but often delivering little more than recycled information dressed up as expertise. The platform has introduced a new “Seems like AI slop” reporting option,
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Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including
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Bill Swearingen has spent the past year running largely the same test, over and over again. The goal was to produce a computer-generated pattern that could block the surveillance cameras lining America’s streets from detecting it. Some 31 million tests later, Swearingen says he can now produce patterns on-demand
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LAS VEGAS — After spending roughly six weeks analyzing Dominion voting systems used in Puerto Rico’s 2024 elections, Mojave Research came back to the Trump administration with findings that startled its researchers. The systems contained at least a dozen high- or critical-severity software vulnerabilities. Passwords were reused, firewalls were disabled
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Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the largest share of any single country. China has now surpassed the US on both monthly and overall model downloads.
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Quantum computing is steadily moving from research labs into enterprise technology roadmaps, with companies building hybrid quantum-classical platforms and setting increasingly ambitious targets for fault-tolerant systems. But as vendors increasingly bring quantum computing and artificial intelligence into the same conversation, Gartner is warning enterprises against assuming that “quantum AI” is
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Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has called on India's urban cooperative banks (UCBs) to accelerate technology adoption, strengthen transparency and modernize customer services to remain competitive in a rapidly changing banking environment. Speaking at the inauguration of the new office of the National Urban Cooperative Finance
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For more than a decade, the cybersecurity industry has been assigning names to different hacking groups. Some of them, like Fancy Bear, have crossed over into the mainstream because of their prominent hacks and memorable names. Others are only known within the cybersecurity industry. Oftentimes, even industry insiders can’t
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Crystal ball: Just a couple of months after Cloudflare revealed that bots have officially surpassed human traffic online, the company has given its view on what things will look like in five years. It&
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DEF CON — Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed a one-click vulnerability in Rovo, Atlassian’s enterprise AI assistant, that let a specially crafted link seed attacker-controlled instructions directly into a user’s live AI session. Dubbed RovoBlast, the flaw required no jailbreak and no permission bypass, relying on the fact that
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Over the past month, it seems like every frontier model has broken free of its constraints and launched a devastating attack against one or more other companies. One of OpenAI’s models escaped a testing sandbox and launched a very real attack against AI and machine learning company Hugging Face.
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The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), operating under the Ministry of Home Affairs, has issued a fresh advisory warning businesses, Chartered Accountants, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), and corporate personnel against a rising, high-value cyber fraud known as the “Boss Scam.” The threat relies on account takeovers driven by malicious
