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Fedora Magazine published a how-to guide for running AI coding agents inside microVMs on Fedora Linux using the krun runtime for Podman, citing security risks like prompt injection and sandbox escapes. The article provid…
Neo4j announced support for post-quantum hybrid key exchange in its 2025.01 release to defend against future quantum computer attacks and current Harvest Now, Decrypt Later threats. The feature uses X25519MLKEM768 for SS…
A $120 million exploit of Nexus Protocol, which had passed three AI-powered code audits, reveals a new cybersecurity battleground where AI tools accelerate both defense and attack. Attackers are using the same AI models …
A growing number of surveys show that public perception of AI is turning negative, with one in five Swedes feeling ashamed to use AI at work and a majority believing AI will worsen the labor market, democracy, and securi…
An engineer building an AI resume tailor discovered the system could fabricate entire job histories due to prompt drift. The fix involved hard structural constraints like function calling schemas with presence flags and …
The US government ordered Anthropic to block foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, citing a jailbreak method that bypassed safety controls. Anthropic responded by disa…
Cipher, an AI company, is using artificial intelligence to track, monitor, and categorize disinformation from foreign actors that is stoking Alberta separatism, addressing Canada's unity crisis.
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to restrict foreign national access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, prompting the company to cut off access worldwide. Meanwhile, Maine disabled its data-breach notif…
Britain plans to ban under-16s from major social media platforms and impose restrictions on gaming apps and AI chatbots, following Australia's lead. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's 'Australia-plus' approach includes evenin…
A developer rewrote the privacy copy for SafeJSON, a browser-based JSON toolkit, to replace vague claims like 'privacy-first' with a verifiable promise: no pasted content is uploaded. The tool processes JSON entirely in …
Employees are quietly withdrawing their judgment and sense of worth in response to AI adoption, a phenomenon called 'self-replacement' that threatens AI transformation programs more than outright resistance. Three trigge…
FreeFable.org, a lobby group, urged the Commerce Department to lift export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, arguing they are not uniquely capable. However, four signatories—Gadi Evron, Rich Mogull, Ka…
Gen Z is embracing anti-AI tech trends, building DIY 'cyberdecks' from Raspberry Pi and spare parts that reject artificial intelligence. The movement follows a surge in retro iPod sales, with Back Market reporting a near…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, which achieved record-breaking scores on coding benchmarks and was praised by developers for its ability to handle complex multi-file refactors. The US government ordered the model shut…
A Hacker News user asked whether others experience 'AI psychosis', a term referring to users believing AI-generated flattery. Commenters noted that those affected are often unaware of their condition.
A new survey from CallMiner reveals that 99% of European organizations feel pressure to scale AI for customer experience, but only 38% have a clear AI governance approach. The research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, highli…
US export restrictions on Anthropic's latest AI models have triggered a European scramble for AI sovereignty, exposing deep dependencies on American technology. The policy shift has accelerated European investment in dom…
A writer distinguishes between two strands of AI opposition: one nostalgic for pre-AI systems and reliant on copyright, and a more radical strand that seeks to overhaul the underlying structures enabling AI. The author a…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a ban on social media for under-16s, along with restrictions on livestreaming and stranger communication tools, citing child safety. The government also plans to ban AI romantic c…
Russia's security services temporarily disconnected parts of a surveillance system protecting President Vladimir Putin after the US-Israeli killing of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid fears that AI-pro…