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Robert 'Grizzly' Hanson, a retired paramedic and founder of GrizzlyMedicine Research Institute, released an evidence packet challenging the AI industry's commitment to safety and ethics, claiming he documented theories a…
A developer spent a year researching how AI agents fail and discovered a single underlying failure mode: cross-layer incoherence. The agent's memory, authority, purpose, and action drift out of agreement while the agent …
GitHub updated its secret scanning system on June 17 with new partner integrations, expanded push protection defaults, and validity checks to identify active leaked credentials. The update adds push protection for Clouds…
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) is meeting with Anthropic in San Francisco on June 18 to negotiate access to Mythos, an AI model designed for vulnerability research, amid new US export controls that r…
Cybercrime now accounts for over 30% of all offenses across Asia and the South Pacific, according to Interpol's latest report, driven by organized scam gangs and AI-enabled attacks. Online scams and phishing dominate, wi…
The Linux kernel has removed support for the legacy AppleTalk protocol after a surge of AI-generated patches targeted the code, reducing the attack surface and improving security.
A developer released PII GUI, a free, open-source desktop app that detects and redacts personal information in PDFs, Markdown, and text files entirely on-device using regex or local ONNX models, with no data ever leaving…
A developer argues that the core challenge in AI agent memory is not capacity but governed recall—deciding what information an agent is allowed to use for a given task. Without recall policies, more memory can make agent…
The United States used Elon Musk's Grok AI to deploy 2,000 munitions during a conflict with Iran, according to Middle East Eye. The AI, part of Project Maven's targeting support system, processed data for Operation Epic …
NVIDIA released SkillSpector, a tool that scans AI skills for security risks using static analysis and SARIF reports. The tool evaluates skills through a LangGraph workflow, organizes findings with pandas, and supports L…
A non-engineer executive built a B2B SaaS to production in two days using AI, but when an engineer took over operations, they discovered the API key was initially hardcoded in the source code. After being told to fix it,…
Kristie Carrier of New Brunswick filed a lawsuit in California state court on June 11, 2026, naming OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter Alice Carrier to commit suicide. The complaint …
Armorer Labs is building Armorer, a local control plane for AI agents that provides a place to run, observe, and repair them during real workflows. The companion Armorer Guard adds an approval layer for high-impact agent…
President Donald Trump said negotiations with AI company Anthropic are progressing well, speaking at the G7 summit on June 17, 2026, amid a months-long standoff involving federal bans and export controls. The dispute cen…
Christian Pulisic trained apart from his U.S. teammates for the third straight day due to a calf injury, raising concerns about his availability for Friday's World Cup match against Australia. The AC Milan attacker, who …
WebKit has formally opposed the WebMCP standard, citing redundancy with the accessibility tree as a key concern. A developer argues that the opposition is constructive engineering feedback and that the right approach is …
Millions of people are confiding in AI therapy chatbots, but a KFF Health News investigation reveals that mental health data is dangerously exposed. Researchers found 1,575 vulnerabilities in popular Android mental healt…
The Pentagon disclosed in a legal filing that xAI's Grok chatbot was used to fire 2,000 munitions at 2,000 targets within 96 hours, marking the first formal acknowledgment of a commercial generative AI model in kinetic t…
The U.S. government ordered restrictions on access to frontier Anthropic models, prompting Anthropic to disable global access to its latest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, cutting off Indian developers and enterprises. The…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models by any foreign national, effectively redefining export controls to cover remote access to AI capabilities rather than j…