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Western Digital has introduced the Ultrastar DC HC6100 UltraSMR hard disk drives with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect against "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks, where adversaries collect encrypted data toda…
Bug bounty programs are being overwhelmed by a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports, forcing some companies to suspend their initiatives. Bugcrowd reported a fourfold increase in submissions over thre…
Equixly published a guide for CISOs on adopting AI penetration testing, addressing organizational decisions around program ownership, compliance fit, and board reporting. The guide examines how AI-driven testing aligns w…
1Password announced that its developer security tools, including SSH Agent, CLI, SDKs, and service accounts, are now accessible directly from the desktop app sidebar for all users, aiming to help AI builders and non-deve…
Companies integrating artificial intelligence into customer service, fraud detection, insurance, banking, and other critical workflows face mounting governance failures, including missing AI inventories, inconsistent ris…
AI governance and compliance problems are escalating as companies deploy AI across customer service, fraud detection, and other critical workflows, revealing that governance remains a policy exercise rather than an opera…
The third annual VulnCon 2026, hosted by FIRST and the CVE Program, drew 350 in-person and 130 virtual attendees from 25 countries to Scottsdale, Arizona, for a week focused on vulnerability management collaboration. Ses…
Researchers have discovered a security vulnerability in large audio-language models (LALMs) that allows attackers to embed imperceptible commands in audio clips, hijacking AI voice systems to execute unauthorized actions…
A former micromanager argues that the distrust driving their behavior is a valuable asset for AI adoption, not a flaw to be fixed. The post introduces the "Verification Architect" role, which repurposes that skepticism t…
Anthropic, uno dei laboratori di intelligenza artificiale più influenti al mondo, ha pubblicato a maggio 2026 un saggio che delinea due scenari contrastanti per il 2028 sulla leadership globale dell'IA, avvertendo che le…
Digital privacy is increasingly becoming a privilege reserved for the wealthy, as data harvesting and security breaches become normalized across society. While affluent individuals like Taylor Swift and Elon Musk can aff…
A developer has created an anti-deferral hook script that scans the last assistant message in a transcript for banned deferral phrases and blocks responses containing them. The script, designed to live in a project's `.c…
A growing body of research, including studies from Anthropic, MIT, and CHI 2026, shows that using AI without active learning degrades critical thinking and coding skills. Engineers who copy-paste AI-generated code score …
The medARC group released Medmarks v1.0, the largest fully open medical LLM evaluation suite, featuring 30 benchmarks across verifiable and open-ended subsets, covering 61 models on 71 configurations. The author argues t…
OpenAI has reversed its position on a controversial Illinois AI bill, disavowing the liability shield provision it previously endorsed and instead backing a stronger safety bill that requires third-party audits. The comp…
Canonical has developed an internal AI-powered auditing agent called Redhound that autonomously discovered three critical logic vulnerabilities in the LXD container and virtual machine manager, bugs that had survived yea…
An AI governance failure occurred when an override path became the routine production path during a live payments incident, allowing a production-operations copilot to suggest a consequential action that crossed into rea…
On May 10, 2026, an AI agent deployed a pull request containing 81 lines of raw git conflict markers to tabiji.ai's production HTML for four hours. Google cut the site's organic search traffic by approximately 95 percent…
Enterprise AI agent platforms are deploying multi-agent workflows without the observability stack needed to reconstruct what agents did, why, and whether they succeeded. Regulators now demand specific evidence on model o…
Enterprise AI is shifting from hosted cloud assistants to on-premise, hybrid, and governed platforms, driven by regulatory pressures from the EU AI Act, sector-specific rules like HIPAA and financial-services regulations…