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A developer built NPM Safety Guard, a free IDE extension that scans package.json and lockfiles for malicious npm packages across 22 detection layers. The tool catches typosquats, AI-hallucinated package names, suspicious…
Israeli AI and cybersecurity firm Dream raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation, nearly tripling its $1.1 billion valuation from 16 months ago. The round was led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11, with participation …
Microsoft's VS Code 1.123, released June 3, introduces a two-hour delay before newly published extension versions auto-update, aiming to mitigate supply chain attacks by providing a window to catch malicious updates. The…
Tinfoil (YC X25) proposes verifiable privacy for cloud AI inference pipelines using cryptographic proofs, but the implementation gap lies in inspecting model artifacts before deployment. Local model files like .gguf and …
A web developer nearly fell victim to a sophisticated phishing attack disguised as a Calendly booking link from a potential client, HitBox Games. The attacker used a fake browser window mimicking Google's login page to s…
A Hacker News user warns that the rapid pace of AI development, termed 'tokenmaxxing,' resembles mass hypomania, with ideas being churned and built at unprecedented speed, potentially leading to societal dissociation.
G7 leaders met in Évian-les-Bains to discuss AI regulation and cooperation amid competition with China, hosting tech executives including Demis Hassabis, Arthur Mensch, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei for a working lunch. T…
A financially motivated threat actor used a publicly exposed Ollama model server as the reasoning engine for an automated, multi-stage offensive framework, according to GBHackers reporting based on Sysdig telemetry. The …
A developer discovered that Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, secretly stored 43 MB of conversation data, including code snippets, file paths, and even password queries, in local directories without user notification.…
Anthropic opened its Seoul office on June 17, 2026, its third in Asia-Pacific, and announced enterprise partnerships with NAVER, Samsung SDS, LG CNS, Nexon, Hanwha Solutions, and Channel Corp. The office, led by KiYoung …
Anthropic Managing Director of International Chris Ciauri said during a press conference in Seoul that the company expects to restore access to its frontier AI models, including Fable 5, within days after blocking them f…
The EU cybersecurity agency ENISA is set to meet AI company Anthropic on Thursday, a meeting arranged before the US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its advanced models, including for foreign…
Anthropic suspended its Fable 5 AI model within three days after U.S. government concerns over security protocols, highlighting a growing rift between U.S. regulatory policies and East Asian market realities. Japan's Sof…
World leaders seek access to American AI technology but express concerns over the U.S. government's ability to unilaterally disable or restrict these systems, highlighting tensions between global demand for AI and fears …
The UK Home Office is using two AI tools, Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) and Asylum Policy Search (APS), both powered by GPT-4o, in asylum decision-making without informing applicants or publishing required impact asses…
A panel discussion published June 18, 2026 concluded that agentic AI is shifting the conversation in financial services from automation toward decision support, forcing credit unions to balance speed with trust and accou…
JPMorgan Chase has blocked its Hong Kong staff from using Anthropic's Claude AI model due to licensing terms, following a similar move by Goldman Sachs. The restriction highlights how geopolitical tensions and US export …
Dream, an Israeli AI cybersecurity startup co-founded by former NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio, raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation, nearly tripling its valuation in a year. The company uses AI for predictive threa…
A new study from the Wharton School at UPenn introduces 'cognitive surrender,' where AI users accept AI-generated answers without independent verification. In experiments with 1,372 participants, 73% accepted wrong answe…
AI models used for online hate speech detection vary widely in how they identify and classify hate speech, according to a 2025 University of Pennsylvania study. The study found significant inconsistencies across systems …