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AI agents are rapidly improving in cybersecurity, enabling both defensive and offensive operations at unprecedented speed and scale. The dual-use nature of AI creates a tension between safety controls and usability, with…
A mid-sized insurance company's customer support chatbot falsely told a homeowner that smoke damage was covered after a house fire, leading to a reversed claim and a PR crisis. The team's attempts to fix the issue with f…
A developer released Sandbox-proxy, a zero-dependency Go forward proxy that injects credentials into outbound requests on the wire, allowing sandboxed code to use tokens without seeing them. The tool simplifies secret ma…
OpenCode AI released a security-focused configuration that denies read access to sensitive files like .env, node_modules, build artifacts, and cache directories, and requires user approval before executing any bash comma…
Turva.dev, an audit business, ran its own site through four AI agents running Claude Fable 5, which generated 91 findings from a line-by-line review of 5,400 lines of source code. Most findings were minor drifts, but fou…
A developer argues that 'Operational AI'—systems that act in the real world—is the most consequential and misinterpreted type of AI. Unlike functional or agentic AI, operational AI is an execution layer that carries real…
England midfielder Declan Rice is managing a neural issue affecting his lower back and hamstring but is expected to be fit to start against Mexico in the World Cup, according to injury expert Stephen Smith. Rice has been…
Anthropic's Project Glasswing released its first public report, revealing that its unreleased frontier security model Mythos discovered over 10,000 vulnerabilities in open-source software, including a critical certificat…
An intense heat wave across the eastern US threatens to disrupt Fourth of July celebrations for America's 250th anniversary, with officials warning of serious health risks as millions gather for parades, concerts, and fe…
Erika Kirk's cryptic Instagram 'countdown' posts from early September 2025 are under scrutiny after her husband, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was assassinated on September 10, 2025, and she was later named CEO of …
A security researcher discovered that Apple's Hide My Email service has a vulnerability that exposes users' real email addresses, affecting 100% of tested addresses. The flaw was reported to Apple in June 2025 but remain…
Apple has warned that plastic webcam covers, popularized in the 2010s as a privacy measure, are unnecessary and can damage MacBook displays. The covers may also interfere with features like True Tone. Security experts no…
Columnist John Crisp reflects on American exceptionalism and freedom ahead of the 250th Independence Day, praising the nation's tolerance for protest including flag burning, while criticizing President Donald Trump for s…
A developer argues that Functional AI—the simplest category of AI—is widely misunderstood as a pattern engine rather than a mind. The post distinguishes Functional AI from Agentic AI, noting that it generates outputs bas…
Actor Preity Zinta moved the Bombay High Court seeking removal of AI-generated deepfake videos, morphed images, and unauthorized chatbot personas using her likeness. Justice Madhav Jamdar directed parties and online plat…
A new study from The University of Manchester argues that universities must rethink how they teach and assess students as artificial intelligence transforms education and work. The paper, authored by Dr. Kelechi Ekuma, c…
Causari, an open-source tool from Croviatrust, records every action an AI agent takes on a codebase, including prompts, models, files read, and reasoning, without requiring agent permission. It uses a content-based join …
Japan launched Noetra, a ¥380 billion AI company backed by SoftBank, Sony, NEC, Honda, and METI, to secure national leadership in physical AI and robotics. The coalition aims to reduce reliance on foreign AI models and p…
India's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to summon Meta officials over Instagram ads allegedly promoting child sexual abuse material, following a BBC report doc…
A developer argues that the question of whether AI can have a soul is architectural, not mystical, drawing on Aristotle's three levels of psyche. The developer contends that large language models exhibit a form of imagin…