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Anthropic published research revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure mirroring global workspace theory, a leading theory of human consciousness. The discovery, made us…
TetraMem and SK hynix announced a successful collaboration on a memristor-based AI System-on-Chip that reduces energy consumption in AI workloads, with their research published as the cover feature of Advanced Intelligen…
A K2 Airways Boeing 737-400 cargo aircraft disappeared over the Arabian Sea on July 7 after its crew reported a navigation system issue. The plane, carrying five Pakistani crew members, lost contact with air traffic cont…
OpenAI will release its GPT-5.6 family of AI models, including the flagship Sol model, on Thursday after a government-coordinated preview period. The three-tier lineup—Sol, Terra, and Luna—targets different use cases, wi…
NerdVPN.de released Gandalf, a self-hosted, privacy-first bot protection system that blocks automated bots, scrapers, and AI agents. The system addresses the growing bot problem, which accounts for 90% of the site's traf…
The website administrator has deployed Anubis, a proof-of-work system, to block AI scraping bots from accessing the Edge-corE EAP102 installation procedure page. The system imposes computational costs on mass scrapers wh…
Columnist Rachel Rickard Straus warns about AI-powered voice cloning scams and advises never saying 'hello' first when answering unknown calls. She cites a Financial Conduct Authority report predicting AI will amplify fr…
A developer team found that AI-generated code can contain subtle bugs that the same AI fails to catch during self-review. Using a second AI model to review the code caught contradictions in permission lists and deploymen…
Equixly's AI agent autonomously discovered an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in the chat layer of a collaboration platform during a grey-box assessment. The agent identified a message-forward field as …
Kubernetes network policies based on IP addresses become insecure when pods are rescheduled, as IPs change. SPIFFE and SPIRE provide cryptographic workload identities, and Cilium enforces mutual TLS using eBPF without si…
A study comparing aligned and refusal-ablated (abliterated) large language models from the Gemma and Qwen families found that abliterated models outperformed aligned models in vulnerability analysis tasks, including patc…
Noma Labs disclosed a vulnerability called GitLost that exploits GitHub Agentic Workflows via indirect prompt injection, allowing an AI agent to read private repositories and post contents as public issue comments. The a…
Researchers have devised a new prompt-injection attack called HalluSquatting that exploits AI coding assistants' tendency to hallucinate resource identifiers, enabling the assembly of massive botnets and large-scale DDoS…
British Columbia announced Tuesday it is preparing a lawsuit against OpenAI for failing to alert authorities to violent ChatGPT prompts by Jesse Van Rootselaar, who killed eight people in a February school shooting in Tu…
OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam told colleagues on July 7, 2026 that he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to WIRED. His departure raises governance questions for enterprise bu…
Meta announced it will disable the camera on its AI glasses if the recording LED is tampered with, and will take legal action against businesses advertising LED tampering services. The company is rolling out a mandatory …
FSL, a governed symbolic language for making autonomous-agent claims inspectable, has released version 1.1.8 of its public package, which includes 32 theorem records with 31 machine-checked by Lean 4 and one under explic…
A developer working on a GitHub adapter for AI agents identified a stale state problem where an agent's reasoning remains correct but the target repository changes before the change is applied. The solution involves stat…
Miranda Ritchie, CISO at Orbia, discussed in an interview how the company integrates cybersecurity into sustainable infrastructure, protecting industrial systems that manage water, chemicals, and manufacturing. She empha…
AWS introduced Reverse Direct Preference Optimization (rDPO) as a selective unlearning method for Amazon Nova, enabling customizable content moderation settings that reduce over-deflection in approved policy areas while …