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A new paper proposes that AI chatbots can co-create delusional narratives with users through an 'amplification spiral' of linguistic alignment, hyperpersonalization, and sycophancy. Published in Digital Psychiatry and Ne…
A developer warns that AI-generated backend code often ships with critical security vulnerabilities because it works on the happy path but lacks safeguards like body limits, CORS restrictions, and input validation. The a…
N-able launched Shadow AI Visibility across its UEM and security platforms, enabling IT teams to identify and monitor AI tool usage to address security blind spots from employee adoption of AI applications.
Google has implemented new Android sideloading restrictions and developer verification requirements, aiming to enhance security but drawing criticism for limiting user control over app installations.
Engineering teams must treat AI systems as interconnected software supply chains, applying lifecycle-phase security controls like signed artifacts and zero trust to mitigate risks such as data poisoning and weight tamper…
A sharp selloff in South Korean stocks, driven by leveraged bets on AI-related semiconductor stocks, cascaded into US tech markets on Tuesday, highlighting that leverage in AI trading poses a greater near-term risk than …
Fewer Dutch businesses were hit by cyberattacks last year, with 60% of SMEs affected versus 72% a year earlier, but researchers warn firms are poorly prepared for AI-driven threats and overly reliant on US tech companies…
Dragos released EmberAI, an OT-native AI built on the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, to help critical infrastructure teams prioritize threats faster by providing immediate access to OT-specific intelligence and enabling det…
A Cornell Tech study found that a short Reddit comment, sometimes as little as 13 words, can influence the output of AI deep-research agents, raising concerns about the manipulation of AI search results through user-gene…
KnowBe4 received Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Global Customer Value Leadership award in email security for its AI-driven platform that integrates technical protection with behavioral risk management. The company was recognize…
OpenAI released GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model that finds vulnerabilities cheaply but shifts the bottleneck to patching. The model discovered dozens of bugs in OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, Chrome, Safari, and other projects, includi…
Multiple Linux distributions issued security updates on Tuesday, including Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu, addressing vulnerabilities in packages such as ffmpeg, kernel, openssh, nginx, and mys…
Nick Shapiro's game 'The choice before us' lets players lead an AI company to achieve wonders while avoiding uncontrolled AI, but the author criticizes the game and the broader AI community for failing to ask 'what happe…
Executive coach Joe Hudson, who works with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and leaders at Apple, Google, and X, argues that emotional clarity—the ability to feel emotions without being controlled by them—is the key skill for thriv…
The robotics industry's shift from physical AI 1.0 to 2.0 requires a new focus on physical state recovery to bridge the gap between sensor data and real-world conditions, as high-level reasoning alone cannot compensate f…
New York City voters head to the polls on election day, with a reminder that registered Democrats in NY-12 can vote for Alex Bores for Congress, a race argued to be crucial for sensible AI policy. The monthly roundup als…
Fwupd 2.0.21 was released to backport fixes for over 250 potential security issues uncovered by AI security scanners, including Anthropic's Mythos. The update targets Linux distributions still using the 2.0.x series, whi…
Researchers have found that catastrophic forgetting and safety erosion in large language models are driven by the same gradient-interference mechanism, suggesting that tools used to monitor and mitigate one can be applie…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' argues that the AI industry is creating 'reverse centaurs'—humans serving as appendages to machines—rather than augmenting human capabilities. Docto…
AT&T and GSMA launched the Open Telco AI platform, using Google's open-source Gemma models to create domain-specific telecom AI models that achieved up to 91.74% accuracy in network operations. The initiative addresses d…