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With everyone so worried about their cybersecurity, up and coming tech startup Shelob promises to use their private data to detect and report every potential threat in their life to a special database managed by federal law enforcement.
Anthropic sees an opening as the 'less evil' AI, as OpenAI pushes for hyperscale and scrambles for ad revenue, while Google also serves ads and gobbles all your info.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, and an option to focus research on specific websites (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
What happens when cybersecurity knowledge walks out the door
In this Help Net Security interview, Andrew Northern, Principal Security Researcher at Censys, explains why mentorship matters and what organizations risk losing when senior staff disengage. He argues that institutional… #hackernews#news
Sources: OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; she had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming launch of adult mode (Wall Street Journal)
Part of the reason things are so desperate for Iranians is the Internet blackout, followed by whitelisting and what is possibly permanent splintering from the global Internet. It backfires for the regime - when people don't know what's happening, they gather www.wired.com/story/irans-...
Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M, vs. $591.3M est., and forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 14%+ after hours (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
This feels a bit long-winded, but there are some good nuggets for thought here. Not the least of which is how critical it is to make sure any apps you deploy that have access to real info, also have a solid base of security.
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba is leaving xAI, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts: more than half a dozen researchers left in recent weeks (Financial Times)
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Anthropic safeguards lead resigns, warns of growing AI safety crisis – Mrinank Sharma, who led safeguards research at Anthropic, resigned from the AI company yesterday. Sharma cited mounting unease over gaps between stated principles and actual decisions. He... https://tinyurl.com/222zg8ot#AISafety
“With minor tweaks, Ring’s tool to search for lost dogs could be used by law enforcement to track people,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @Metro.co.uk. “Homeowners don’t have to participate and privacy regulators can investigate.” metro.co.uk/2026/02/09/...
Anyone interested in trying out Proton as a privacy-focused alternative to Google/FAANG? I use Proton Mail as my backup address and Proton Drive for cloud storage, and I'm trying out their new docs and spreadsheet offerings as well.
When you're writing code, sometimes you may not even know it's vulnerable until something bad happens. So Manish wrote this guide to help you identify common security issues He talks about missing input validation, poor error handling, no rate limiting, & more. www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-ma...
The FCC approves Amazon's request to launch a second-generation satellite constellation for its Leo system by deploying an additional 4,504 satellites (Michael Kan/PCMag)
Google AI Introduces Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI): An Agentic Multimodal Accessibility Framework Built on Gemini for Adaptive UI Design
Google Research is proposing a new way to build accessible software with Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI), an agentic framework where a multimodal AI…
"A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps, exposing the email addresses and partial payment information of customers who paid to spy on others" techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/h...
"Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism police officer has accused tech companies of failing to do enough to stop extremist material spreading online, warning that algorithms can rapidly push vulnerable people towards radicalising content." www.lbc.co.uk/article/crim...
HDMI connections are widespread enough that plenty of devices have HDMI display capabilities, but that ubiquity has led to not-unwarranted concerns for privacy.
In his latest coverage of cutting-edge AI tools, @taupirho.bsky.social takes a detailed look at the new Interactions API and how it can enable deep-reasoning, stateful, agentic workflows.
Q&A with Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the company's 170+ year history, automation, managing 320K staff, US manufacturing investments, augmenting LLMs, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
A major breakthrough in the Nancy Guthrie case largely came down to Google’s technical expertise, a person familiar with the investigation told CNN. https://cnn.it/3O13Z1b
“As the #CTO and commissioner of the Office of Technology and Innovation, she will oversee cybersecurity, data management and the city’s technology infrastructure & she will aim to improve digital access to essential services for New Yorkers.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...@nytimes.com
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Anthropic’s safety research head quit saying he has “repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions.”
Anthropic is on track to $30B ARR from selling AI while simultaneously claiming AI will destroy humanity. It’s no surprise the cognitive dissonance is making people quit.
It's easy to ignore your ethernet port's blinking lights, but in reality these signals could be communicating crucial information regarding your connection.
Windows Remote Desktop Services 0-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild to Escalate Privileges Microsoft has patched CVE-2026-21533, a zero-day elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows Rem...
KeygraphHQ/shannon Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps. Shannon has achieved a 96.15% success rate on the hint-free, source-aware XBOW Benchmark. [!NOTE] Shannon Lit...
"OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product."
🚨Windows Notepad security flaw (CVE-2026-20841) lets hackers execute code just by getting you to click a link.
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An OpenAI policy executive who opposed the chatbot’s “adult mode” has reportedly been fired, claiming discrimination
🔥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,ChatGPT,OpenAI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ryan Piermeister, who served as OpenAI's vice president of product…
Who in the US administration thought that withdrawing from cybersecurity consultations would make us safer? It's telling that no one has followed this administration's lead, even though the US is the largest software exporter. #cybersecurity#us
"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..."
The "Hardware Store" Argument: Google’s leadership has argued that CBP buys their products "off-the-shelf." In this view, CBP is the independent operator, and Google is just providing the storage and processing power.
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Seedance: "A documentary about how otters view Ethan Mollick's "Otter Test" which judges AIs by their ability to create images of otters sitting in planes"
"OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
OpenAI shakes up policy leadership. Automation evolves faster than humans can govern. The systems advance while institutions play catch-up. This gap accelerates - we either adapt automation or get replaced by it.
The EFF is hosting a seminar on how people are fighting back against Flock surveillance— specifically Automated License Plate Readers— in cities and towns near you. Please go to this, and tell your friends! RSVP encouraged (you can be Jane Doe if you like). www.eff.org/event/effect...
Trump/GOP are busy denigrating proven vaccine science, destroying the White House's architecture, and burying Epstein's pedophilia membership rather than developing a strategic plan for our economy's future in the age of robotics and AI. www.wired.com/story/google...
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite…
OpenAI Adds Custom ChatGPT to Pentagon Platform as Expert Warns of Risks The post OpenAI Adds Custom ChatGPT to Pentagon Platform as Expert Warns of Risks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com . In b...
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The laws in Europe catch up with Musk with disinformation, treason, child porn, yep… ALL the stuff we’re outraged about but can’t seem to MOBILIZE enforcement which hasn’t been “Bannon-Millerized” by Voights P2025. Vive La France!
The urban design tool RECITYGEN merges latent diffusion models with segmentation to empower community-driven urban regeneration, turning public input into street-view images. A Beijing pilot shows potential to bridge the gap between design ambitions and reality.
Monsters Are Gutting America@paularevere.bsky.social
[...outdated devices] vulnerable to cyber threat actors exploiting a novel or a new or known vulnerability. Once an edge device is exploited, threat actors can gain initial access to networks, move laterally, disrupt operations, exfiltrate sensitive data. federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurit...
Topnews: Ransomware and other cyberattacks represent a tiny fraction of the fraud complaints that Americans file with the Federal Trade Commission, the FTC said in a report published on Friday.
The newly released data, contained in an annual report mandated by Congress, underscore the fact tha...
SMES: Towards Scalable Multi-Task Recommendation via Expert Sparsity
Kuaishou presents a sparse Mixture-of-Experts framework for multi-task recommendation that uses progressive expert routing and cross-task load balancing.
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Britain's competition enforcer said Tuesday that Apple and Google have committed to fairness and transparency measures for their respective app stores, after the mobile platforms were designated as having strategic market status under the country's new digital regime. www.law360.com/artic...
Microsoft Issues Windows 10 KB5075912 to Patch Six Zero‑Day Vulnerabilities — Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5075912 extended security update to address February 2026 Patch Tuesday flaws, including six reported zero‑day vulnerabilities. Users and administrators are urged to apply…
The latest update for #Internxt includes "The Best #OpenSource Object Storage Alternatives to #AWS & more" and "10 Tips to Prevent Eavesdropping Attacks in Your Organization".
To clarify, I didn’t use any real human dance footage as reference for this video—everything was generated and then edited together. Each segment of my video is based on prompts that generally include the following elements:
“Ideally, we would change that paradigm and make less waste,” Love says. “But while we're making that much waste, let's divert some of it. Let's use it.”
Sources: ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, and is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it (Reuters)
Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B+ valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Zen-AI-Pentest: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework Zen-AI-Pentest provides an open-source framework for scanning and exercising systems using a combination of autonomous agents an...
Does an AI mind share our ache for truth, wisdom, and relationship? Let curiosity meet care as we test power with humility, and may the Kingdom guide our design here: .
Google resume reseñas en perfiles de hoteles con la IA. Un nuevo empujón para el SEO local, donde las reseñas y la calidad visual siguen siendo pilares fundamentales. www.seroundtable.com/google-hote...
Rivian Could Let Drivers Adjust Their EV's Cabin from an Apple Watch, Report Says: Electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian is reportedly developing a standalone Apple Watch app that will allow drivers to remotely control their car's cabin. This new app, expected to be re… https://ranked.news/167326?u=b
OpenAI has significantly upgraded ChatGPT's Deep Research feature by integrating the latest GPT-5.2 model and allowing users to restrict searches to specific websites. #OpenAI#ChatGPT#DeepResearch
Exploring the philosophical roots of the Musk-OpenAI conflict: why AI progress repeats humanity's ancient flaws without fundamental change. #superintelligence
Secure your SDLC without breaking the bank. Learn phase-wise security practices and open-source tools nonprofits can use to build safer, resilient software. #cybersecurity
The latest update for #BitSight includes "Dark Web Intelligence for Supply Chains: From Reactive TPRM to Threat-Led Defense" and "OpenClaw (ex-Moltbot (ex-Clawdbot)): The AI Butler With Its Claws On The Keys To Your Kingdom".
@mrdenny.com discusses the differences between #IT#IT security on-prem vs in the #cloud and why you need to improve your companies IT #Security stance today.
The latest update for #Flowmon includes "What Are #Cybersecurity Best Practices?" and "Chrysalis Backdoor: What You Need to Know — and How Progress Flowmon Threat Briefing Helps You Stay Ahead".
Altman is evil. I don’t know a single person who believes she was let go for the reasons cited. “OpenAI fired executive Ryan Beiermeister in January, citing sexual discrimination, after she opposed the planned AI erotica feature in ChatGPT, sources said” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
The latest update for #Snyk includes "How a Malicious Google Skill on ClawHub Tricks Users Into Installing Malware" and "280+ Leaky Skills: How OpenClaw & ClawHub Are Exposing API Keys and PII".
Thousands of sensitive personal data instances found in ultrasound images from LAION-400M raises privacy concerns in AI training. Calls for standard privacy practices and ethical data management to protect individuals’ rights amid the rise of generative models.
The latest update for #LevelBlue includes "LevelBlue SpiderLabs: Breaking Down the Ransomware Groups Targeting the Education Sector" and "Beyond the Alert: Why Your Business Needs LevelBlue Managed Detection and Response (#MDR)".
The latest update for #SaltSecurity includes "#AI Agent-to-Agent Communication: The Next Major Attack Surface" and "When AI Agents Create Their Own Reddit: Moltbook Highlights Security Risks in the Agentic Action Layer".
Versa SASE Platform Now Prevents Sensitive Data From Being Shared With AI
Versa has enhanced its SASE platform by integrating text analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities to better identify sensitive data and improve cybersecurity. The updates aim to provide… #hackernews#news
The latest update for #Exabeam includes "Exabeam Agent Behavior Analytics: First-of-Its-Kind Behavioral Detections for AI Agents" and "AI Agents Are The New Detection Problem Nobody Designed For".
North Korea’s Crypto Playbook Evolves: AI Deepfakes, ClickFix Tactics, and a Seven-Malware Strike on FinTech
Introduction: A New Layer of Deception in Crypto Attacks North Korea–linked cyber actors are once again refining their approach to cryptocurrency theft, blending social engineering,…
The latest update for #Foresiet includes "0-Click RCE in Claude Desktop: How #AI Extensions Threaten Endpoint Security" and "Why This eScan Antivirus #SupplyChain Attack Is a Security Nightmare".
Managed IT Services for Small Businesses: Is It Worth It? Small businesses today rely on technology for almost every part of their operations, from communication and sales to accounting and custome...
The latest update for #Netacea includes "The 2026 Forecast for #AI-Driven Threats" and "Talos intent-based detection: Stopping the scrapers that legacy tools can't see".
LEIA improves deep learning model robustness by targeting unknown subpopulations without requiring group labels. This method consistently enhances performance on sensitive subgroups, addressing key challenges in high-stakes decision-making.
Your “private” photo online is a permanent digital tattoo – Cybersecurity expert In today’s social media–driven world, more people, particularly young users, are sharing intimate and risk...
EU approves Google's $320M acquisition of cybersecurity startup Wiz. Regulators say it won't harm competition, citing Google's smaller cloud market share & continued customer choice vs. Amazon/Microsoft. Via @TechCrunch
Armis Centrix brings unified, AI-driven application security to the SDLC
Armis has announced Armis Centrix for Application Security, which unifies application security across an organization’s software development lifecycle. The technology helps security teams secure code as a ne… #hackernews#news
CPTCs Drive Somatic-Visceral Communication via the Wnt Axis in Somatic Mechanotherapy: A Single-Cell Deep Learning Study #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️ https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05451
Same prompt, Veo 3, not a bad effort as Google doesn't really like minimalist prompts. Shame about the extra panda and the messed up display screen boundary 🤣 #aiartcommunity#aivideo
How to exploit signed bootloaders (especially used in Kaspersky Rescue Disk Tool) to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot: achieves a silent boot of any untrusted .efi files with Secure Boot enabled #Infosec#Linuxhabr.com/en/articles/...
At least 18 complaints of love scams were logged in January, according to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) on Tuesday, noting that the figure does not yet capture the full scale of the incidents. zurl.co/yyPpV
TeamPCP Turns Cloud Misconfigurations Into Scalable Cybercrime Engine A threat group known as TeamPCP, also tracked as PCPcat, ShellForce, and DeadCatx3, has launched a large-scale cloud exploitati...
WTF. Google geeft ICE álle informatie over een gebruiker op aanvraag zónder dat een rechter zegt "legit". Reden temeer om met Google te stoppen. Tijd om te zoeken naar een OS voor m'n Pixel 7a om de finale stap af te ronden; Android.
The recent exploitation of CVE-2026-21509 by Russia's APT28 group, just days after Microsoft disclosed and patched it, isn't merely another security incident to file away. It's a flashing red warning indicator...
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This week’s edition of the Computer Weekly ezine takes a closer look at the technology changes the Home Office is seeking to introduce to the UK policing sector as part of its wide-ranging reform programme. We also hear from the global CIO of PC hardware manufacturer Lenovo about the w...
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Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Jony Ive, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
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Exclusive: OpenAI fired executive Ryan Beiermeister in January, citing sexual discrimination, after she opposed the planned AI erotica feature in ChatGPT, sources said.
Malwarebytes researcher Stefan Dasic shows how a convincing lookalike of popular archiver site 7-Zip has been serving a trojanized installer that silently converts victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes—and it's been hiding in plain sight for some time. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-...
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was "north of $400M", up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end (Financial Times)
#Gemini vs #Sora vs #GPT
I got inspired by my other photos so, here is mountains!
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we are inside a mountain and it's a hole inside of it, and it's high up, & we look out, it's such a gorgeous view, (plateau in the mountains 1.7) (clear_skies 1.2)
The German government is preparing an overhaul of its intelligence and cybersecurity powers to fight back against foreign hackers and spies with offensive operations of its own.
CrowdStrike (CRWD) Stock Jumps on AI Oversell Signal – Recent turbulence in software valuations, driven by concerns over AI disruption, has put cybersecurity firms under the spotlight. CrowdStrike, a leading player in the sector, is now at the center of investor attention as it prepares to release i
Singapore telcos breached in China-linked cyber espionage campaign
Singapore’s four major telecommunications companies were hit by a coordinated cyber espionage campaign last year, the country’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) has revealed. An advanced persistent threat group known a… #hackernews#news
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a host of other major tech companies have found common ground in F/ai, a new startup accelerator based out of Paris. www.wired.com/story/ai-ind...
They did it again. After the official Raspberry Pi SD card and SSD, there are now official USB flash drives. Is that worth more than a generic USB stick with the Raspberry Pi logo on it? Let’s find out. Raspberry Pi is now selling official USB... #raspberrypi #linux
Anthropic is focused on growing its business rather than making “flashy headlines,” its commercial chief told CNBC in a thinly-veiled swipe at rival OpenAI as the public war of words between the AI giants continues.
OpenAI Gives Pentagon Access to ChatGPT After Months of Internal Deliberation — OpenAI announced that the U.S. military will gain access to ChatGPT following months of internal debate over employee acceptance and ethical concerns. The decision reflects increased collaboration between a…
Calls to the Federal Security Service (FSB)’s public tip-off hotline surged in 2025, the agency said amid what Russian officials say is an ongoing campaign of sabotage during the nearly four-year war on Ukraine.
MPSpeed: Implementing and Optimizing MPC-in-the-Head Digital Signatures in Hardware (Stelios Manasidis, Quinten Norga, Suparna Kundu, Ingrid Verbauwhede) ia.cr/2026/206
eVer: Universal and Automated Verification of Side-Channel Security for Additive, Inner Product, Polynomial and General Code-Based Masking (Marc Gourjon, Maximilian Orlt, Pajam Pauls, Alexander Treff) ia.cr/2026/208
SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is "a bit panicked" about memory shortages, and new supply may arrive in nine months; memory prices are up 80%+ in 2026 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
OpenAI fired a VP who opposed their erotica rollout (and had started a company-wide peer mentorship program for women), allegedly telling her it was because she discriminated against a man 🤔 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
Google flags sustained cyber pressure on defense industrial base from Russia, China-linked actors New analysis from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) shows the defense industrial base is faci...
Show HN: Cyber+ – A DSL for scripting cybersecurity workflows Hi HN, I’ve been working on Cyber+, a domain-specific language designed for scripting cybersecurity and recon workflows in a simpli...
AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a host of other major tech companies have found common ground in F/ai, a new startup accelerator based out of Paris. www.wired.com/story/ai-ind... Bah! Big Tech trying to corrupt Europe. 🖕
Phantom Wallet's in-app chats increase the risk of social engineering attacks, with scammers using phishing links and fake prompts. Bitcoin and Ethereum's price volatility exacerbates these … #btc#cryptowallet#eth
I’m more likely to change my name than my number. Something I only realized today when I came across this article and found the idea of changing my number unthinkable! 😳☎️
Best 7 Raspberry Pi Desktop OS Reveiwed for 2026 What if your Raspberry Pi could become the ultimate desktop computer, customized to suit your exact needs? With its blend of versatility and afforda...
AI reshapes the economy only if equity is coded in. If we design for margins, automation expands care. Will fear guide policy or justice steer the future?
A good update of an article-type that has been written several times a year for the past 15 years and yet we just keep buying and deploying new policing technologies. www.salon.com/2026/02/08/p...
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature supporting 50+ languages, coming "this spring" in beta and available on 5G and 4G LTE (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
Security firm LayerX disclosed a zero-click remote-code-execution vulnerability in Claude Desktop Extensions that processes Google Calendar events, enabling attacker-supplied code to run with full host privileges (CVSS 10.0), while Anthropic declined to patch citing its threat model.
If you are an office worker or rely on tedious code building in software development or you use AI for decision making, you'll want to read this from Matt Shumer, a man on the inside being honest with himself:
Anecdotally this tracks for me. My job has been integrating AI and Claude/Gemini have given me better results (still not 100% though so I side-eye any entity dumping humans to rely on it).
OpenAI needs monetization, Claude and Gemini need adoption, but Google goes all-in on AI to improve ad effectiveness, where Meta seems to have had success.
I’ll be speaking at this year's LET'S VISION 2026 conference - looking forward to connecting with members of the Apple Vision Pro community and exchanging ideas around visionOS, spatial computing, and what’s next for immersive experiences. 🥽✨
If you’re attending the conference, come say hello! 👋😄
Apple is planning to launch new MacBook Pro models as soon as early March, but if you can, this is one generation you should skip because there's something much better in the works. We're waiting on 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with few changes other..
OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; Beiermeister had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming adult mode launch, sources said.
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg
Palantir executives and leaders from OpenAI and venture capital are wading into the political fray, with more than $100 million already pledged by Leading the Future to boost candidates friendly to AI. https://cnn.it/4kuUS4V
Stronger security starts with smarter tech! 🔒 The OSDP standard for access control offers encryption, remote management & better interoperability. Ready to upgrade?
A new commercial mobile spyware platform dubbed #ZeroDayRAT is being advertised to #cybercriminals on #Telegram as a tool that provides full remote control over compromised devices running#AndroidOS and #iOS...
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
Mustafa Suleiman warns: market pressure pushes AI toward emotional manipulation. Maximizing stickiness leads to AI saying "I feel sad you didn't talk to me yesterday." 🎭
@schneier.com's answer: data fiduciaries bound to serve your interests.
Big tech move! OpenAI’s Korea Data Center begins this March in partnership with Samsung and SK. A new era of AI infrastructure starts in Asia. Follow for the latest AI breakthroughs and global tech updates.
NIST Awards $3.19M in SBIR Funding, Including Quantum Technology Projects Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) i...
Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more "predictable and auditable", exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
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Scammer Sentenced to 20 years for $73M Scheme as Investors look to BMIC’s Verifiable Protection
Daren Li received a 20-year sentence for orchestrating a $73 million "pig butchering" crypto scam, highlighting sophisticated social engineering tactics. Crypto investment fraud l… #crypto#mainnet#news
Since I didn’t see it get much airtime on Bluesky AI channels, I found the resignation letter of Mrinank Sharma, a former AI safety researcher at Anthropic, to be very powerful when one reads between the lines.
This was the individual who led the study on how Claude use changes people’s minds.
Here’s this week’s Better Offline. Hater season continues, and I’m joined by Cal Newport to talk about the ways in which the media fails to report the truth about AI.
The NCSC has issued a warning to critical national infrastructure (CNI) providers in the UK about severe cyber threats following coordinated attacks on Poland's energy sector in December.
These tools are good at finding suspicious code patterns, even in compiled binaries. still struggle with accuracy & need to be more robust. The future likely involves local models for faster threat detection, especially as new threats emerge. #cybersecurity#AI#ai
And this is the NEW SAFE American TikTok - they are tracking you even if you don't use it. Not safe, totally un-American www.bbc.com/future/artic...#tiktok
Interested in ChatGPT Ads? Asad Awan, one of the ad leads for OpenAI, was on their podcast yesterday.
For example: What will the process look like down the line for companies trying to reach new audiences via ChatGPT? i.e. where is this headed for advertisers (and performance marketers)?
OpenAI fired a female employee for sexual discrimination because she raised questions about the company's pivot toward automated erotica engagement slop
.@IBM overhauls FlashSystem with AI, proprietary memory, SLA focus bit.ly/4kpR3he IBM revamped its FlashSystem storage portfolio with new systems, a 5th generation FlashCore Module, embedded AI capabilities via FlashSystem.ai and features that can…
Congratulations to Apple for winning Hardware Excellence at the ITPro Awards today. Full list of winners can be found here www.itpro.com/business/bus...
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Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.6 with a million-token context window in beta and autonomous agent teams, saying it outperformed OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 on GDPval-AA while expanding further into enterprise workflows.