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The US government’s message at the G20 Innovation Ministerial is clear: Nothing should slow down AI innovation – not regulation, not power shortages, not even serious safety concerns. The forum, hosted this week in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, brings together government leaders from the G20 countries, including India, China, Russia
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Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI — after it lost control of its own AI tools — or by a succession of AI “civilizations.” Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from
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The US Coast Guard has established a dedicated Office of Maritime Cybersecurity Policy as the maritime industry’s growing reliance on information and operational technology expands the cyber risks facing ports, vessels, and other critical infrastructure. The Office of Maritime Cybersecurity Policy (CG-MCP) will serve as the Coast Guard’s
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The Google Pixel 11 Pro, which launched alongside a new lineup of Pixel devices last month, has proven to be another popular entry for fans of Google’s hardware. However, early adopters have started reporting an issue when using one of the Pro’s exclusive features, Video Boost. The community
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Happiest Minds Technologies Limited has announced the signing of definitive agreements to combine its business with ITC Infotech India Limited through a proposed merger. Under the transaction, ITC Infotech will acquire an aggregate minority stake of approximately 22.1% in Happiest Minds from its promoter and promoter entities in two
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence has discovered a new variant of the ClickFix malware campaign we covered last year, and it's been dubbed "TerminalFix." The fundamental nature of the attack is similar in the sense that it also relies on false CAPTCHAs that impersonate Cloudflare or other reputable
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Urupong/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW September 1, 2026 01:37 PM ET Some deals offering federal agencies significantly discounted access to software are set to expire at the end of the month. * GSA * Contracts The Trump administration should publish a consolidated inventory of discounted software offerings
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Do you know exactly what software you're running? Sometimes, the answer can sit somewhere between "most of it" and "let me get back to you on that." Now that frontier AI models such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and OpenAI's
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* Huntress reports DPRK job seekers expanding beyond tech into healthcare, sales, and marketing * North Koreans use stolen identities, forged documents, AI tools, and proxies to bypass detection * Campaign dubbed “IT worker scheme” continues, posing sanctions risks and unique detection challenges North Koreans looking to get hired by western companies are
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NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on August 11, 2026, a 30B parameter open model that only activates 3B parameters per token. It scores 51.56% on SWE-bench Verified, completes 10,000 tasks 30% faster than comparable models, has a 1 million token context window, and you can run it
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As companies start giving AI agents access to an increasing portion of their systems, a nascent software supply chain seems to be forming around the new tooling AI agents are using: skills, plugins, MCP servers, and add-ons that let them interact with the internet. AI security startup AIR believes companies
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* Proofpoint observed PackClient RAT sold on Telegram, used by group TA4922 * Attack spoofed tax authority emails in China and India, delivering PackClient installer * RAT offers advanced features; researchers warn broader adoption likely beyond Asia For almost three months, Chinese hackers have been distributing an advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) called
