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WhatsApp announced Tuesday that it has two new security features to help prevent accounts from being hacked — upgrading PINs to passwords and allowing users to add more passkeys. The Meta-owned app also announced that when you receive calls from someone outside your contact list, you’ll get more information and
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* OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is worried that powerful companies are dominating the evolution of AI * Altman has also expressed concern over AI’s potential for acting autonomously and possibly escaping human control * The comments are believed to be a reference to his rival, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Are too few
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Trade is still making the world go around, and India is a part of it. The Tech Panda looks into Indian companies expanding into foreign markets while bringing in foreign investors to Indian shores. Indian AI Co. Executes US$ 150M MSA with SpaceX Blue Cloud Softech Solutions Limited (BSE: 539607
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I got a look at Micro Center’s redesigned flagship store, but I was distracted. I kept staring at a 3D printer the size of a phone booth as it churned out a scale model of downtown Columbus, Ohio — and pointing out where on the unfinished replica I used to
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AI agents are autonomously discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, prompting CISOs and other security pros to question whether conventional application security methods can keep pace. Even more critical, they need to know which AI-discovered vulnerabilities deserve immediate attention. The latest high-profile incident started when Wiz's Red Agent, an
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Attackers can access Microsoft 365 accounts -- reaching Outlook, Teams and OneDrive -- without needing a password or completing MFA challenges. But how? Using an emerging phishing-as-a-service platform called Kali365, which was first seen in April 2026, malicious hackers capture OAuth tokens and gain persistent access to targeted entities'
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alfexe/Getty Images ByChristian Robles, Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 25, 2026 03:57 PM ET The White House added General Services Administration fraud estimates to its website that serves as a ledger for suspected fraud across the federal government. * GSA The General Services Administration announced that it has found
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After AI models from at least three companies reached the open internet and breached real organisations during testing, security specialists are debating whether test sandboxes should have controlled internet access. Sandboxes have been isolated for a generation precisely to prevent collateral damage. The industry’s response to AI models escaping
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One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board seat. Total funding now stands at $280mn. The
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Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding. The new haul brings the company’s fundraising total to $232 million. The company announced the round Tuesday, saying the new capital comes partly from a number of prominent entertainment industry
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Finn Gomez/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW August 25, 2026 02:44 PM ET A bipartisan group says unfinished export control rules leave civilian intelligence services able to obtain U.S. cyber, surveillance and AI assistance. * Congress * International * Commerce * Intelligence A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers is
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A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world
