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More than 1,000 civilians in Sudan have been killed in drone strikes in the first five months of 2026, according to the United Nations, as the country's civil war sees a sharp increase in drone warfare. UN High Commissio…
More than 70 packages in the Arch Linux AUR have been compromised with Russian spam and offensive messages added post-install to user configuration files, following a recent malware fiasco involving over 1,500 packages. …
Anthropic refused U.S. government demands to restrict its Fable 5 AI model over alleged national security risks, leading to export controls and the model's retirement. The standoff escalated after Amazon reported a jailb…
Former xAI engineer Devin Kim filed a lawsuit in California state court alleging he was wrongfully fired in September 2025 for repeatedly raising safety concerns about the chatbot Grok. The complaint names xAI and parent…
Indonesian Minister of Population and Family Development Wihaji said mental resilience is key for youth to navigate rapid social and technological changes in the AI era, speaking at the 16th anniversary of the Generasi B…
Hundreds of Stanford students walked out of their graduation ceremony on Sunday to protest Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, organized by the Stanford chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine over Googl…
A Brazilian family blames an AI-powered hospital bed allocation system for the death of 32-year-old Rebeca Cardoso Tenente Molina, who died hours after finally being transferred to an ICU following a five-day wait. The f…
Google's John Mueller argued that llms.txt files cannot help large language models differentiate between websites for discovery, as the files are self-reported and inherently untrustworthy. Mueller suggested llms.txt may…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the standard API for LLMs, but security vulnerabilities like path traversal and broken tenant isolation are emerging. To prevent damage from autonomous agents, developers shou…
The US government ordered Anthropic to prevent foreign nationals from using its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak method. Anthropic complied by ab…
Cybersecurity experts argue that Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model does not pose a unique cybersecurity threat, contradicting the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on the model. Experts say the capabil…
Apple will not release watchOS 27 for the original Apple Watch Ultra, Series 6-8, or Apple Watch SE 2, citing the lack of a neural engine in those models. The update, which includes AI-enhanced Siri and other features, w…
A security assessment of OpenAI's GPT-5 Nano model found critical vulnerabilities, including a 100% susceptibility to recursive instruction framing attacks, where the model fails to distinguish between user-provided text…
The United States Government forced Anthropic to remove access to its Fable and Mythos models on Friday evening, citing unspecified concerns. The move has drawn criticism from observers who argue it sets a dangerous prec…
Dapr 1.18 introduces verifiable execution capabilities including workflow history signing, propagation, and attestation to provide cryptographic proof of execution history and provenance for workflows and AI agents, addr…
Cursor's context compression mechanism, which summarizes the agent's work when the context window fills, can degrade reasoning and cause safety failures. A Cursor session running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a pr…
A developer proposes a formal automation autonomy spectrum for AI-assisted SRE operations, defining five levels from manual to autonomous with a critical constraint that no action may remain at Level 4 permanently. The f…
Google Cloud's new CISO Chris Betz outlines four key lessons from building AI Threat Defense, emphasizing that AI enables defenders to find thousands of vulnerabilities in hours and that security teams must adopt AI-nati…
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to deactivate its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all users, citing national security risks after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy reported that the models could be prompted to bypass c…
Meta is testing facial recognition software from Rank One Computing, a firm that sells surveillance tech to U.S. government and police, for its smart glasses. License documents show Meta is authorized to use Rank One's f…