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Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a vulnerability chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search, dubbed SearchLeak, that could allow attackers to steal emails, calendar data, and files with a singl…
A senior backend tech lead and founder of HostingGuru warns that many developers have accidentally committed API keys to Git history, often through .env files or hardcoded keys in AI coding tools. He recommends using git…
A developer warns that AI agents with retry logic can double-charge customers when a network failure drops the response to a write operation like a payment. The agent, unable to distinguish between a failed request and a…
Watch Cortex, a threat-classification AI, runs on-agent in under 8ms without cloud calls or GPUs. The system uses a gradient-boosted decision tree ensemble for primary classification and a lightweight autoencoder for ano…
The White House imposed export controls on Anthropic's cybersecurity-focused AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5, citing national security concerns, leading Anthropic to suspend access. The move bolsters Mistral's argument fo…
Steven Spielberg's 2026 film 'Disclosure Day' imagines humanity uniting after the government reveals alien existence, but the premise is undermined by modern cynicism and AI-generated disinformation. The movie's core fan…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline, blocking access for foreign nationals including employees. The shutdown has intensified global calls for sovereign AI developm…
Cape Verde held Spain to a 0-0 draw in its World Cup debut, with 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha making several key saves. The result is the biggest shock of the tournament so far, as European champion Spain failed to bre…
AWS announced the Strands Evals SDK, which automatically detects AI agent failures in production and performs root cause analysis, reducing diagnosis time from hours to minutes. The tool categorizes failures, identifies …
The US government is pressuring AI company Anthropic to make its large language models unhackable, accusing the firm of ignoring a Trump-era cybersecurity directive and releasing its Fable 5 model without approval. Talks…
Anthropic shut down access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after the Trump administration imposed export controls, treating the models like weapons. Amazon, a major investor in Anthropic, tipped off the government …
Florida's facial recognition system FACESNXT has led to at least two documented wrongful arrests, with Jalil Richardson spending 93 days in jail and Robert Dillon losing his job after being falsely matched to crimes they…
The Seattle Fire Department has been using Corti AI to listen to all 911 medical calls since December 2023 without public disclosure or city council approval, routing callers to a nurse line in Texas. The department did …
UC Berkeley's computer science enrollment decline is driven by supply-side constraints, not AI or job market fears, as the university reduced admissions targets and restricted course access due to rising labor costs. Des…
Big Tech lobbyists are making a final push for a federal AI preemption law, but the White House's plan to combine it with child safety legislation has caused confusion and political backlash. The proposed deal, which wou…
The U.S. government ordered Anthropic to block foreign national access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on June 12, prompting the company to disable both models for all customers. The order, received at 5:21 p.m. ET…
A production Agentic RAG system encountered five failure modes—latency cliffs, memory drift, reflection loops, injection attempts, and evaluation overhead—that architecture diagrams failed to predict. Engineers mitigated…
A developer has released Synapse AI Gateway, an open-source governance-first AI gateway designed for regulated teams that need audit trails and policy enforcement without waiting for enterprise procurement. The gateway e…
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over military intelligence concerns, forcing the company to disable access globally. The directive bars foreign n…
Dozens of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, protesting the company's work with the US government on AI. The walkout reflects br…