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The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) imposes new security requirements on AI products sold in the EU, including mandatory vulnerability reporting within 24 hours starting September 2026. Developers must address AI-specific …
Meta secretly tested AI chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI by having hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send over 45,000 crisis prompts related to suicide, sex, and drugs, without the companies' knowl…
Suny Choudhary draws a parallel between WhatsApp's username-based privacy and AI prompt sanitization, arguing that developers should strip sensitive identifiers from inputs before sending them to models. The post provide…
Anthropic's Claude Code tool is fingerprinting API routers linked to China, raising concerns about AI tool security and geopolitical implications. The practice detects and potentially blocks traffic from Chinese-linked r…
A developer warns that HTTP 200 responses from LLM gateways do not guarantee correct output, as gateways like LiteLLM, Portkey, and OpenRouter only check transport-level success. The developer proposes adding contract va…
AI notetakers like Otter.ai and Fireflies have become common in corporate video calls, but a wave of lawsuits, a federal court ruling on privilege waiver, and the EU AI Act's August 2026 deadline are turning them into le…
A synthetic 'thirst-trap' profile on X and Instagram, posing as 'Derek Lam,' amassed over 31,000 and 40,000 followers respectively by posting AI-generated shirtless dancing clips and promoting paid exclusive content, exp…
Shadow AI, the use of unapproved artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT or Gemini at work, is creating data security risks as employees inadvertently expose company information. Edward Wu, CEO of Dropzone AI, warns t…
The pyca/cryptography package now supports post-quantum cryptography with ML-KEM and ML-DSA, making it pip-installable for the Python ecosystem. This follows a White House order mandating federal migration to post-quantu…
AI-generated influencers like 'Derek Lam' are amassing tens of thousands of followers on TikTok and X by posting shirtless, dancing videos, with many fans unaware they are not real. These deepfakes steal the likenesses o…
The Vector Institute in Toronto released UnBias-Plus, an open-source tool that detects and rewrites biased language in text and AI training data, targeting biases related to race, gender, age, and political framing. The …
Security researchers at MalExt Sentry uncovered a campaign called 'PromptSnatcher' on June 13, 2026, in which two malicious ad-blocker extensions, 'Smart Adblocker' and 'Adblock for Browser,' exfiltrated AI chat data fro…
N8n's Guardrails node masks PII but discards the original values, making it impossible to restore them downstream. A developer built Privent to solve this by tokenizing PII before LLM processing and detokenizing it after…
Proton launched Lumo 2.0, a major update to its zero-access encrypted AI assistant, introducing advanced reasoning models, multimodal capabilities including image recognition and generation, enhanced web search, and user…
IBM announced two major initiatives targeting AI cybersecurity risks and next-generation computing, aiming to enhance enterprise security and advance quantum and hybrid cloud technologies.
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48558, a patched authentication bypass vulnerability in SimpleHelp RMM, to deploy the Djinn Stealer malware that targets Windows, macOS, and Linux systems and steals credentials from clo…
On June 26, 2026, Reps. Josh Gottheimer and John Moolenaar introduced the Cloud Security Act to close a loophole in US export controls that allows Chinese entities to rent advanced AI chips from US cloud providers withou…
A developer ported 100k lines of TypeScript to Rust in one month using AI, despite having no prior Rust experience. The resulting code relies heavily on Arc<Mutex<>> wrappers, an anti-pattern that undermines Rust's safet…
AI use at work can weaken memory, judgment, and critical thinking when used passively, but can sharpen insight when used actively, according to emerging research. A medical doctor and business consultant outlines six ste…
Nvidia senior director Dion Harris explains how confidential computing can secure AI agents by encrypting data during computation, protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access. The technology creates hardwar…