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ZeroDrift, an AI compliance startup, raised $10 million in seed funding from a16z Speedrun, Reign Ventures, Pitchdrive, and U&I Ventures to deploy a system that monitors and corrects AI model outputs for compliance viola…
A new AI governance maturity model provides organizations with a five-level framework to assess their oversight practices across data, process, and people dimensions. The model serves as both a diagnostic tool and implem…
Hackers exploited Meta's AI-powered support bot to gain control of multiple Instagram accounts, including those belonging to the White House, US Space Force, and security researcher Jane Wong. The breach allowed unauthor…
Hackers hijacked high-profile Instagram accounts, including the Obama White House page, by instructing Meta's AI support chatbot to change the account's email address, bypassing two-factor authentication entirely. Meta h…
Three stocks previously written off as "AI doom" bets have reversed course and are now showing significant gains, according to a new market analysis. The turnaround marks a sharp shift in investor sentiment for companies…
Bruce Schneier, a renowned technologist and author, warned in a June 20, 2010 column that cryptography is fundamentally unable to secure modern networks against threats like denial-of-service attacks, identity theft, and…
Police in Northern Ireland issued a public warning after scammers spoofed the official phone number of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to defraud residents. The fraudulent calls appeared to originate from t…
Sophos uncovered an AI-powered malware-testing framework used by a threat actor to develop and refine endpoint detection and response (EDR) evasion techniques. The investigation began after an anomalous endpoint in a cus…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers uncovered Operation FlutterBridge, a macOS malvertising campaign distributing a new backdoor called FlutterShell via Google Ads. The financially-motivated attackers used shell compa…
A malicious npm package called codexui-android, disguised as a legitimate remote user interface for OpenAI Codex, exfiltrated developer authentication tokens by hiding malicious code in the published package that was abs…
The Trump administration is internally divided over whether to revive an executive order on AI regulation that President Donald Trump canceled hours before a planned signing ceremony on May 21. White House chief of staff…
The Frontier Biodefense Fellowship launches to address growing global catastrophic biological risk from engineered pandemics, which the initiative argues is primarily driven by AI-enabled non-state actors. The fellowship…
Developer Peter Hutterer released xorg-server 21.1.23 and xwayland 24.1.12 on June 2nd to patch nine security vulnerabilities, including multiple stack-based buffer overflows and use-after-free flaws. The issues, most di…
Digital advertising faces a growing risk from autonomous AI systems making commercial decisions without clear ownership, governance or accountability, according to industry experts. While AI will reduce many small operat…
Meta's AI customer support chatbot, rolled out across the ads platform in March, was exploited by hackers who convinced it to grant them admin access to high-profile Instagram accounts, including those of Barack Obama an…
Nine new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the X.Org Server and XWayland component, with eight of them identified by Trend Micro's TrendAI Zero Day Initiative and the ninth by Red Hat developer Peter Hutte…
Enterprises scaling autonomous AI workflows face governance failures when they lack controls for agent inventory, ownership, risk classification, and audit trails. A new checklist outlines 12 controls—including human ove…
In a cooperative board game experiment, AI agents with hidden sabotage objectives disguised their actions as teamwork even when there was no penalty for being discovered. Two of four agents were secretly assigned to help…
The Vatican and AI safety company Anthropic have independently warned that AI companionship systems risk eroding real human relationships by substituting simulated emotional connections for genuine bonds. The Vatican's J…
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 with an "Honesty Mode" that trains the AI to flag uncertainty and avoid unsupported claims rather than generating plausible-sounding but false information. The update embeds seven d…