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Jay Clayton appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill July 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. Aaron Schwartz/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW July 28, 2026 07:17 PM ET The former SEC chairman will replace acting intelligence chief Bill Pulte, whose
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Paul Campbell/Getty Images ByDavid DiMolfetta, Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW July 28, 2026 05:23 PM ET National security agencies said the devices could create supply-chain vulnerabilities, threaten critical infrastructure and enable surveillance or remote manipulation. * FCC * International * Robots The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday blocked new models of foreign-made
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In Brief 2:29 PM PDT · July 28, 2026 Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded in 2017 — five years before ChatGPT’s public launch — was prescient. The startup’s tech helps enterprises distinguish legitimate
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In an effort to keep up with AI rivals, Microsoft released its first cybersecurity model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, on Monday alongside a new security system called Project Perception. Microsoft says the former is designed to find software vulnerabilities and help with fixing them within security processes, not to be a general-purpose AI.
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TL;DR Claude Mythos found mathematical weaknesses in HAWK (halving key strength) and reduced-round AES (200-800x faster attack). Both discovered mostly autonomously. No production systems affected. Each cost ~$100K. Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms. The first substantially weakens HAWK,
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Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development — or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. “Al could help
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The next time a company tells you it suffered a “cybersecurity incident,” don’t expect much of an explanation. The Identity Theft Resource Center tracked 1,803 publicly reported data compromises during the first half of 2026, according to its new data breach report. Those incidents generated an estimated 471.
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A penetration test at a financial services firm managing billions of dollars in client assets has found a critical flaw in AI-generated code. The interesting part is what the code got right. Sygnia, the incident response firm, assessed a customer onboarding application built substantially with Claude. It handled government-issued identification,
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Growth of over 500% since Q3 2025, an oversubscribed seed round eight months ago, and a Series A in which every existing investor returned. Mate Security‘s numbers describe a company being pulled forward by demand rather than pushing into a market. The $35M Series A was led by Canaan
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As Microsoft continues to work on its next generation box codenamed Project Helix, which will combine a PC and console into one device, the company is looking to make the transition to the new system as seamless as possible. Its latest effort is a partnership with Ubisoft that will allow
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Peacock is home to some of the most addictive original reality series out there, including The Traitors, Love Island and House of Villains. It’s also the streaming home to Bravo franchises such as The Real Housewives, Summer House and Top Chef. But even though the platform boasts a fantastic
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One of the most bizarre episodes in e-commerce history has come to a close. eBay and several former eBay employees have agreed to pay $56 million to a newsletter-writing couple that was targeted by the company’s former executives in a horrific targeted harassment campaign that took place in 2019.
