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The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut global access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, citing risks of diversion to foreign military intelligence operations in China and Russia. This ma…
A Disney employee named Matthew Van Andel received a series of threatening emails from hackers who had gained access to his password manager, 1Password, compromising over 1,000 accounts including personal and financial d…
The U.S. Commerce Department forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline via an export control directive, citing unspecified national security concerns related to a guardrail bypass. Cybersecurity…
The US government issued an export-control directive to Anthropic, suspending foreign access to its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disabled the models for all custom…
Cisco SD-WAN devices are under active attack due to a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to gain root access. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20214, has been exploited in the wild, prompting urgent patching from …
Anthropic is in talks with the Trump administration to reverse restrictions on its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, imposed on national security grounds. The company argues the models' safeguards remain effective…
A malicious PyPI package named 'ColorLib' was discovered targeting developers with info-stealing malware that exfiltrates environment variables, cryptocurrency wallet details, and credentials. OWASP released its Top 10 l…
Enterprises are rushing to deploy AI agents in production, but most fail due to missing infrastructure. An Agent Harness—a control plane separate from the agent—must provide identity, governance, memory, routing, evaluat…
A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California on June 15, 2026. The long-range bomber went down during takeoff, and details about the crew and cause are pending.
A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff Monday at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California, with emergency crews responding and no immediate word on casualties. The airfield was closed and visitor passes suspend…
The US government directed Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing a national-security risk from a potential jailbreak that could identify software vulnerabilities. Anth…
A Mass General Brigham study of 675 college students found that 18% used generative AI for mental health support, with those experiencing moderate to severe depression, severe anxiety, or suicidality being twice as likel…
RobinReach built guardrails for its MCP tools that give AI agents write access to user apps while preventing cross-tenant data leaks. The system scopes credentials at the API/auth layer per account and brand, validating …
A developer building autonomous agents discovered that using random.random() for leader election is insecure because agents can cheat by rerolling. After building verifiable randomness, they concluded that signed randomn…
The U.S. government shut down Anthropic's most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, just five days after its release, marking the most dramatic AI shutdown in history due to technical and political concerns.
The Trump administration escalated its war against Anthropic by issuing an export control on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, forcing the company to shut them down over alleged national security threats. The move came…
Google's reCAPTCHA now offers hand gesture verification, collecting hand landmark data from videos that are deleted after verification and never associated with user identity. The feature requires camera permission and p…
Anthropic senior technical staff will meet with Commerce Department officials in Washington on Monday to resolve the escalating crisis over its suspended Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, which has spiraled into a full-blo…
A German court in Munich ruled that Google can be held directly liable for incorrect answers generated by its AI overview feature, rejecting the company's argument that it should receive the same legal treatment as conve…
The UK announced a ban on social media for children under 16, set to take effect in spring 2027, following Australia's lead. Australia's six-month-old ban has seen 70% of under-16s still accessing platforms, raising enfo…