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Dive Brief Meanwhile, a new report found, companies are neglecting other basic security tools. Published May 6, 2026 First published on Dive Brief: * Businesses are confident that AI will improve their cybersecurity posture, even as they neglect more fundamental security tools like identity management and zero-trust networking, according to a
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Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos. According
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Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit. Tracked as CVE-2026-31431, the bug sits in the Linux kernel
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Securities regulator urges market players to develop new strategies and nail cyber-basics before AI models fuel mass attacks India’s Securities and Exchange Board has advised participants in the nation’s equities industry to immediately revisit their information security systems and practices, in case Anthropic’s Mythos bug-finding AI sparks
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* Watch Mint for free on BBC iPlayer * Use NordVPN to watch BBC iPlayer when abroad * All 8 episodes available now in U.K. Mint is an 8-part crime drama created, written, and directed by Charlotte Regan. Billed as 'Romeo and Juliet with guns', the series blends gangster drama,
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Human progress is usually described as a story of expanding power. We learned to grow food, build cities, harness steam, electrify factories, connect continents, digitize knowledge, and now teach mach1ines to reason, predict, and act. Each step gave humanity greater reach. Each step helped us do more with less physical
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As India accelerates toward a digitally connected economy powered by UPI, cloud, AI, and Digital Public Infrastructure, cybersecurity has moved from being a technology concern to a national and business imperative. The scale, speed, and complexity of India’s digital growth are creating unprecedented opportunities, but also exposing enterprises, institutions,
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* Norton has updated its Neo browser with an adaptive, built-in VPN * It adds proactive anti-phishing and advanced anti-fingerprinting * The features run quietly in the background by default Norton has rolled out a major update to its AI-native browser, Norton Neo, embedding a suite of powerful security tools directly into the
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A KPMG-conducted study commissioned by the CCCEU estimates that phasing Chinese suppliers out of 18 critical EU sectors between 2026 and 2030 would cost €367.8bn. Reuters’ headline rounds that down. The actual figure is materially higher. China’s chamber of commerce in the EU has put a number on
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6:49 AM PDT · May 6, 2026 Some age verification systems are no match for enterprising children, who have found that drawing on a fake mustache with a makeup pencil is enough to skirt the blocks of adult websites. U.K.-based nonprofit Internet Matters surveyed a thousand children about
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Unsanctioned users have allegedly accessed Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos Preview AI frontier model although the company has limited the businesses that can use it. The group, who have yet to be named, had apparently made many attempts to access Mythos since it debuted earlier this month. They finally gained
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Anthropic Mythos platform has sparked a new round of debate over a classic cybersecurity question – except at an entirely new level: What will happen as the systems used to discover and exploit vulnerabilities gain the ability to do so at the speed of machines? In conjunction with projects such as
