Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a sovereign wealth fund funded by taxing artificial intelligence profits to ensure the technology's benefits are shared publicly. The plan, outlined in a New York Times…
On May 29, security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8, a flaw that could have allowed attackers to generate ZEC from no…
Anthropic reported that its Project Glasswing initiative, launched in April to use its Mythos AI model for identifying software vulnerabilities, has detected 23,000 potential flaws across 1,000 open-s…
Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm that carries its own large language model and runs it on compromised computers. The worm represents the closest realization yet of the self-repl…
Hackers are exploiting Meta’s AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts by tricking the bot into adding a new email address and resetting the password. A video posted on X demonstrated the proce…
Researchers are deploying machine learning algorithms to break historical pencil-and-paper ciphers used in medieval plots, love letters, and diplomatic correspondence. The AI-driven decryption is unlo…
Bruce Schneier, a renowned technologist and author, warned in a June 20, 2010 column that cryptography is fundamentally unable to secure modern networks against threats like denial-of-service attacks,…
Frontier AI models can now autonomously identify exploitable software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale, exposing decades of technical debt from an industry that prioritized rapid deplo…
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) is called upon to implement regulations for squid fishing in the South Pacific. The article highlights the need for management mea…
A contractor for the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository until recently that exposed credentials for highly privileged AWS GovCloud account…
The article discusses how Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) on M5 hardware, a hardware-assisted mitigation, was bypassed by a small team using an AI system called Mythos Preview to develop a …
AI security cannot be effectively measured through benchmarks alone, as benchmarks fail to accurately assess AI capabilities, particularly complex properties like security. Instead, it suggests that A…
Laurie Anderson includes a quote from an unnamed cryptologist on her new album and in interviews, stating, "If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you do…
A researcher known as Nightmare-Eclipse published a zero-day exploit named YellowKey that bypasses default Windows 11 BitLocker encryption. The attack requires physical access to the computer and targ…
The article is a blog post about the bigfin squid that also invites discussion of unaddressed security news. The comment section features a lengthy argument by Clive Robinson that the rise of AI and c…
Some AI-based video age-verification systems can be bypassed using a fake mustache, according to a report. The systems are primarily designed to de-anonymize critics and enable governments to deny pla…
The speaker will deliver a virtual talk on "The Security of Trust in the Age of AI" for the Financial Women’s Association of New York on May 21, 2026. Additional engagements include the Potsdam Confer…
Anthropic last month announced its new Claude Mythos Preview model is so effective at identifying software security vulnerabilities that the company will not release it to the public, restricting acce…
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 matches the performance of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in identifying security vulnerabilities, according to an evaluation by the UK’s AI Security Institute. The OpenAI model is general…