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Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.
The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.
Attackers rarely stop after gaining initial access. Huntress analyzes a real-world intrusion to show how threat actors establish persistence, disable defenses, and reshape compromised systems, and why defenders must investigate the original entry point rather than simply remove the malware. [...]
Peter Parker’s isolation lands especially hard in the age of AI, a loneliness crisis, and endless scrolling.
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is exploiting an Exchange Outlook Web Access vulnerability in email campaigns to deliver a sophisticated backdoor called OWAReaper. [...]
Claude is down for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a "529 Overloaded" message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. [...]
Cisco is warning that a high-severity Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) static credential vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20316, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable devices. [...]
I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.
Google’s latest music model boosts lyrics, vocals, and creative control.