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"The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before creating a directory and exporting out a number of files, and finally creating AD Report.html to measure the success of…
Each read gets pinned to the moment it happened: the time, your location, what you were doing, even how you were using your phone. Some versions in the filing would listen all day; others would check in only at set…
On the flight home, I picked up a book I had not touched in a few years. Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman is one of the rare people who genuinely changed how we understand human decisionmaking. He…
Distributed via Telegram and costing $400 a month (or $3,800 per year), attack chains leverage phishing lures that make use of legitimate email delivery infrastructure, such as Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)…
When it works, the person reads an ordinarylooking reply and never learns their assistant was tampered with.
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"At Balochistan Police, the compromised assets included servers hosting web applications that manage police and citizen data, such as criminal and biometric records," Aleksandar Milenkoski, principal threat researcher at…
More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is ...
No old password. No backup card. Once it is reset, whoever did it controls the wallet and can move the coins out.
Four of the bugs can crash a device. The other two could let an attacker who slips a malicious image in front of the bootloader run their own code, before the device has confirmed that the software is genuine.
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The company has temporarily disabled access to the affected accounts, a step it says it took "out of an abundance of caution" while it works with internal and external security experts.
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Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub fo...
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. SK Hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant, said Friday it has raised $26....
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub fo...
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI over allegations of trade secret theft and breach of contract.The iPhone maker alleges t...
Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature, which was rolled out earlier this week along with a batch of other AI to...
"They're like a fancy paper weight," one creator told Engadge...
I know a lot of people want to celebrate any stumble OpenAI makes, and rightfully so, but the imminent "death" of its Atlas browser isn't a sign of a company retreating from a competitive market. If you didn't catch the…
The threat actor, tracked by Okta under the moniker O-UNC-066 , has deployed a panel-controlled phishing kit that's capable of targeting the passkey enrollment process. The activity has singled out food and beverage,…
The apps flagged with at least one problem have been installed more than 2.4 billion times.
FoxIO researcher Sébastien Féry disclosed the flaw on July 8 and nicknamed it XRING. He says it needs no login and no malformed packets: about 260 bytes of ordinary QPACK traffic takes the server process down.
Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware via counterfeit installers using SEO poisoning techniques, it…
A brief description of the high-severity vulnerabilities is as follows -
Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic.Spark 1.1, ...
Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on the implications of Silicon Valley’s titanic spend on AI infrastructure.In [2023](https://seq...
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? After users on X implied that Musk could wake up one day and simply boot the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to kneecap a rival, Musk [replie...
OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it [launched in October](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/openai-launches-an-ai-po...
OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings.GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered i...
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, [the Wall Street Journal reports](https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-top-executive-fidji-simo-to-step-down-c3daca47?st=sdYs...
If Google’s AI tools are used, it will automatically be note...
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they...
In the brief history of AI security, the prompt injection has quickly become the top threat. Large language models are inherently unable to distinguish between legitimate instructions provided by users and malicious ones…
The Microsoft-owned subsidiary noted that the following npm install behaviors that used to run automatically before have been made opt-in -
Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper . What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can…
Long the leading light of the industry, Nvidia has had a bad couple of months. Bloomberg [has the ugly details](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-08/nvidia-s-1-trillion-slide-sends-valua...
In a bid to lower its GPU costs amid an unprecedented component shortage, Meta is on track to start making the latest versions of its AI-specific chip in September, Reuters [reported](https://www.reut...
On Tuesday, Meta launched “Muse Image,” a new AI image-generation feature that allows users to create original images...
OpenAI is rolling out its latest advanced LLM, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) stressed out the W...
Posted:Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia, and has now raised $100 million total for the round, it [said Thursday](h...
Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they’re seeing was made using AI technology. AI makes it easier for businesses to create ads, place their brand’s prod...
The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training datasets for their copyrighted works. It’s the latest escalation ...
Microdramas are such a rage these days that nearly every kind of compan...
The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch. This round follows a previous $15...
We’ve talked before about the hot IPO summer, but with SpaceX just launched to public markets and Anthropic and (maybe) Op...
At a time when AI backlash and data center [protests](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/data-center-backlash-si...
It doesn't stack up well against its top competitors.
Zimperium's zLabs, which found the operation, says it looks like a new variant of Oblivion, a $300-a-month rent-a-malware tool documented earlier this year.
The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially every mainstream distribution since 2011. The flaw needs no special permission, no unusual settings, and no network access; ordinary threading calls from any…
The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused almost every harmful request when asked directly. Reframed as steps in a normal coding task, they produced the harmful…
Everything a reviewer would check matches. The commit's hash does not. That matters because so many systems treat a verified commit hash as a permanent, unique name for its contents.
The activity cluster, tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF6045 , involves infecting victims through fake CAPTCHA verification pages that deceive them into running a malicious command that installs a…
New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting , turns that habit into an attack: work out the fake names an AI reliably invents, register them first, and wait for the assistant to fetch your trap on a user's…
The agents are not malicious. They just do a lot of things that, to a behavioral engine, look exactly like an attack.
The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according to DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox. Once such campaign, observed earlier this year, involved the actor luring victims with a trojanized 7-Zip installer…
The affected tools are Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic's Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf. Wiz calls the pattern GhostApproval and published it on July 8.
That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls " Friendly Fire. " It works against Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex when either is running in an…
"You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your images," the social media giant said in a post.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine ("mpengine.dll"), which provides scanning, detection, and cleaning capabilities…
That is the gap, and it is not your fault. The tools and runbooks most teams run on were built for attackers who work at human speed. AI-driven attacks do not, and they run at scale. Save your seat for the free webinar,…
Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul, a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents...
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SponsoredIn partnership withElasticWith the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology ...
Meta on Tuesday unveiled Muse Image, its new AI image generator built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s dedicated AI un...
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup [endorsed](https://x.com/yl...
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup build...
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at und...
As companies old and new rush to capitalize on AI, many AI startups say that their revenue is not just growing, but also rapidly accelerating, hitting their next milestones in shorter timeframes.The f...
Prime Intellect, a startup that provides computing power and specialized software tools that help companies build AI agents, has raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation.The massive ro...
OpenAI today released new conversational models, called GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, claiming that they sound more natural and can handle turn-taking better. These are full-duplex models, meaning t...
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at und...
Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced on Wedne...
Before OpenAI’s GPT-3 ushered in the era of foundation models, companies built specialized natural language processing models from scratch, training each on large amounts of task-specific data. Today,...
SpaceXAI has released its latest model, Grok 4.5 — the first since the company went public several weeks ago.In a blog post published Wednesday, SpaceXAI characterized it...
Posted:Google’s SynthID system has been used to debunk a high-profile AI-generated hoax image, in a rare but significant win for the system.Earlier this week...
