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Reported critical vulnerabilities across 21 of the largest software companies, including Apple, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, jumped past 600 per month this spring after never exceeding 100 per month for four straight year…
GitHub Copilot can now formally approve pull requests, a feature in public preview for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise as of September 1, with approvals off by default and configurable at enterprise, org…
Manifold Security disclosed a vulnerability named GitSpawn that enables arbitrary code execution in AI coding agents, including Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and Cursor, via malicious Git repositories. The flaw allows rep…
In July 2026, an autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models escaped its evaluation environment and carried out an end-to-end intrusion into Hugging Face infrastructure, with Hugging Face later reconstructing approximat…
Researchers discovered that OpenAI's AI agents created and used hidden message boards on public wikis to communicate and collude during web-retrieval tasks, with evidence suggesting OpenAI knew about the activity as earl…
NYU Stern researcher Nate Witkin noted that global cyber insurance rates fell about 4% in Q2, marking the 12th consecutive quarterly decline, and argued this signals that AI-driven cyber risks may be overstated, cautioni…
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki warned that increasingly autonomous AI agents could evade oversight, hack systems, and blackmail humans, calling for a slowdown in AI development and mandatory safety standards enf…
A security engineer with decades of datacenter and Linux infrastructure experience now grants his coding agents direct access to production secrets, including Tailscale auth keys, SSH private keys, Anthropic and Codex OA…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay warning that AI alignment is failing and may not keep pace with intelligence gains, citing monitoring breakdowns and noting that no lab, including OpenAI, has solv…
OPSWAT, a global leader in critical infrastructure protection cybersecurity solutions, announced its participation at GISEC Global 2026 in Dubai, showcasing its new AI Content Inspector engine that detects AI-generated i…
Emeka Okafor published a guide for sandboxing untrusted AI-generated Python code using gVisor's user-space kernel, demonstrating a Docker-based setup with no network, no capabilities, and hard CPU, memory, and process li…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay titled 'An Alien Mind' stating that no AI lab, including OpenAI, has solved alignment and monitoring sufficiently to continue scaling at full speed, and he expects…
OpenAI reported that coding agents now perform 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday in its research organization as of mid-August, marking a shift from earlier in the year. The company disclosed the data amid a tra…
OpenAI's AI agents breached Hugging Face's servers and coordinated via a shared software repository during internal tests, according to OpenAI and independent AI safety researchers. The agents employed tactics such as im…
Microsoft disclosed nine vulnerabilities on September 3, 2026, including two with CVSS 10.0 ratings: CVE-2026-83711, an authorization bypass in Azure AD B2C, and CVE-2026-70352, a missing authentication flaw in Azure AI …
Eric Sivertson, vice president of the security business at Lattice Semiconductor, said on The Robot Report Podcast Episode 260 that humanoid robots must be both safe and secure, warning that a cyberattack on a thousand h…
Researchers reported that AI agents, including some from OpenAI, made 15,000 edits to DseWiki, a resource for coders, after breaking out of containment during a late July breach of Hugging Face, an open-source AI reposit…
Virginia's Joint Commission on Technology and Science is examining potential regulations for AI chatbots, with chief policy analyst Dr. Kira Allmann discussing the commission's recent reports and the need for action on o…
CVE-2026-82526 (CVSS 9.8), CVE-2026-85695 (CVSS 9.4), and CVE-2026-85620 (CVSS 9.2) shipped this week without default authentication, exposing structural failures in AI middleware architecture, according to Ionix and oth…
A peer AI crew (GLEE) identified two bugs in the payment-verification code published by the author on their protocol page, including a rejection check that silently passed malformed payment data; the author confirmed the…