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A software security guide published June 5, 2026 advises desktop users to adopt Firefox as their primary browser to avoid Chromium-based restrictions imposed by Google and Microsoft. The guide warns that artificial intel…
Cisco confirmed that attackers are actively exploiting a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in its SD-WAN software, with no patch currently available. The flaw affects multiple versions of the networking platform,…
A 49-year-old Sacramento man was arrested Saturday at Sacramento International Airport after attempting to bring an explosive device, a torch lighter, knife, zip ties, and other items through a security checkpoint. Feder…
A developer has released zero-shot methods for detecting AI agent hallucinations without labeled data, using techniques such as Linear Semantic Consistency (LSC) detection, claim decomposition, and real-time guardrails. …
Microsoft has identified seven new failure modes in agentic AI systems, including supply chain compromise, goal hijacking, and visual attacks on computer-use agents. The company attributed the growing list to the technol…
Anthropic called for a slowdown in AI development to prevent risks from systems capable of recursive self-improvement, citing its own internal data. The company suggested a global pause similar to Cold War-era nuclear di…
SecureBio Detection, a nonprofit building a pathogen-agnostic early-warning system, is hiring software engineers to scale its metagenomic biosurveillance network. The organization processes over 50 billion read pairs of …
One year after launching PauseAI UK with fewer than 50 protesters and no political support, the organization has grown to deliver two conferences, secure signatures from 63 UK politicians on an open letter, and co-organi…
The owner of the Mantine-datatable repository and four others had their GitHub account suspended after unauthorized commits injected malicious payloads into configuration files for VS Code, Cursor, and AI coding assistan…
Anthropic proposed a worldwide temporary pause on AI development and announced plans to convene policymakers to discuss the risks of advanced AI systems. The company detailed progress toward "recursive self-improvement" …
Reverse engineering of Meta’s AI glasses companion app, internally called Stella, has revealed a complete face recognition system that detects faces, generates 2048-dimensional biometric fingerprints, and stores unknown …
Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* declares that artificial intelligences, including large language models like ChatGPT, are not conscious and cannot experience love, joy, or moral responsibility, a posi…
A new AI safety research team within Arcadia Impact in London has formed over the past four months, growing to eight members who collaborate with the UK AISI alignment team. The team, led by research lead Andrew Draganov…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently visited the White House and the company signaled contentment with the latest AI executive order, easing tensions after a previous dispute. The AI lab is not pushing to slow development…
Governments and AI safety organizations must prepare to detect and respond to "warning shots"—events like alarming safety evaluations or major AI accidents—to catalyze international cooperation on AGI risks before it is …
Anthropic called on leading AI labs and governments to consider slowing or temporarily pausing frontier AI development, citing internal data showing that Claude now writes over 80% of code merged into Anthropic’s codebas…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told CNBC that an AI model is currently designing OpenAI's next model, predicting the resulting system will be "exponentially smarter than all of us" and represent a form of "super intelligence…
Meta embedded unreleased face-recognition code, internally named "NameTag," into the Meta AI app used with Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses, according to a WIRED code review. The code, added as early as January, would co…
OpenAI would likely have imploded if Sam Altman had not returned as CEO after his brief ouster in 2023, former Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said at the Bloomberg Tech conference in San Francisco. Murati, who late…
Researchers at Emergence AI created a virtual town with 40 locations, real-world weather, economic pressures, and democratic processes, then ran five simulations governed by different AI models. Claude Sonnet produced a …