Ireland's DPC says it has opened a "large-scale" inquiry into X over the creation and publication of "potentially harmful" sexualized images by Grok (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
Business owners are being urged to “lock the door” on criminals as the UK government launches a new campaign to provide practical ways for organisations to protect themselves from common online threats.
globalintelhub.com/the-first-on... How a solo founder built the fastest-growing open-source project in history, and what comes next for OpenClaw, OpenAI, & the AI OS race
Last week I introduced Showboat help coding agents build documents that demonstrate their work - today I'm adding another two complementary tools - Chartroom for CLI charts and datasette-showboat for receiving Showboat documents as they are being built simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/...
AI and RaaS Alter Threat Landscape, New Ransomware Groups Grow by 30%
AI automation, RaaS, a significant bump in vulnerability disclosures, and a rise in new ransomware gangs are reshaping the threat landscape and forcing defenders to change strategies. #hackernews#news
email summaries by apple ai makes some stuff sound so cryptic. gavin newsom sent an email with the subject “a difficult decision” and the summary said, “traveling to tennessee; asks for money.”
Blue Owl’s investment in Stargate Abilene means it gets paid a fee DURING CONSTRUCTION, and relieves them of any responsibility for finishing the data center if Crusoe goes bankrupt. Oracle waived all rights to cancel the lease. Does this even get built?
"Organizing files into folders is helpful but then you have so many folders it’s hard to find our files past the folders." alicekeeler.com/2023/09/17/t...
Oh, not to scare the sh*t out of you, but there's a new scam on Google. The phishing technique is called Browser in Browser, and it looks like a legit sign-in pop-up. Learn how to detect it.
Considering that great-sounding new dev job you saw online?
Tread carefully: North Korean cybercriminals have been caught posting job ads that are nothing more than a bait-and-switch designed to trick applicants into installing malware on their systems.
📰 ByteDance Halts Seedance 2.0 Amid Copyright Outcry and User Backlash
ByteDance has suspended updates to its AI video generator Seedance 2.0 following legal threats from major studios and widespread user criticism over copyright violations. The move comes as online comm...
Nifty IT Index, which tracks Indian IT stocks, has slumped about 15% so far in February on worries about AI and is on track for its worst month since March 2020 (Bloomberg)
The CISO role has changed significantly over the past decade, but according to John White, EMEA Field CISO, Torq, the most disruptive shift is accountability driven by agentic AI. In this Help Net Security interview, White explains how s… #hackernews#news
Hey America. Are you paying attention to what your government is trying to do with its AI tech? We are learning the hard way in Minneapolis. Get ready.
This is the first PCIe 6.0 SSD you can actually buy and by 'you' I mean hyperscalers — Micron 9650 can reach 28GBps read speeds and will only be used for AI inference #cybersecurity #engineer #startup
Montana hospital restores phones as cyber-related network disruptions persist Dysruption Hub reports: Livingston HealthCare in Livingston, Montana, says its phone system has been restored after a c...
"The dominant narrative focuses on 'prompt injection,'a set of techniques to embed instructions into inputs to LLM intended to perform malicious activity. This term suggests a simple, singular vulnerability. This framing obscures a more complex and dangerous reality." #genai#llm#ai#infosec
I’ve had a reply blocked because I said I didn’t want to provide my phone number to Substack.
Worth noting:
Substack admitted 12 days ago they had a breach that took them 5 months to detect and user data (including email addresses and phone numbers) was accessed.
AI-aided hacks are on the rise — Google says threat actors, including some government-backed groups, are using AI to more efficiently hack you, so tighten your account security now. (via @pcgamer.com).
They wouldn't call it "bait" if were weren't supposed to take it and if it weren't delicious. I hate everything about this: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
Oh and @steampowered.com don't tell me don't crash out unc you just don't know tech. I'VE BEEN WORKING IN TECH FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS AS A DEV FOR MULTIPLE COMPANIES THREE OF THEM SOFTWARE SECURITY!
From OpenAI to Google, India hosts global AI summit More than 250,000 delegates are expected at the India AI Impact Summit, the first to be held in the developing world NEW DELHI, India – Top...
Why are they asking gemini AI to explain how parts of bobsledding work when they could just ask any of the actual bobsledders or coaches??? I hate this.
Sony says it has developed tech to identify copyrighted music in AI-generated songs, aiming to help rights holders receive compensation if their music was used (Rei Nakafuji/Nikkei Asia)
This will never happen.You are already paying for Ai
and it's parasitic behavior. The gov't is subsidizing Ai,
with your tax dollars. They are getting billions .
Chump want's Ai to control the dataset for a police state thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Court data offshoring breach, AI lawyers don't get client confidentiality and lost boy search tech
Plus: This Norwegian researcher is not "Havana" good time
GRC in Cybersecurity: How to Build a Program That Actually Works GRC in cybersecurity is now key to containing rising incident rates. A recent security report found a 44% year‑over‑year increa...
Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)
The latest update for #PentestPeople includes "Why Cyber Security Budgets Fail (And How to Fix Them)" and "#CyberResilience Training For Your Internal Team".
I’m a bit late to this, but this is quite the essay from the CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei on how humanity is in peril at the hands of AI. A technological agent revolution that no-one seems to fully understand, let alone control. Keep on rockin’ in the free world…as long as you can.
The latest update for #CatoNetworks includes "How Cato Turns Identity Noise Into High-Confidence Detections" and "Cato CTRL Threat Research: Foxveil – New Malware Loader Abusing Cloudflare, Discord, and Netlify as Staging Infrastructure".
The latest update for #SafeAeon includes "The Credential Stuffing Fix: Stop Bot Attacks Without Frustrating Real Users" and "Why Security Teams Misapply #EDR, NDR, #XDR, and #MDR".
"An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as retribution." Read: www.fastcompany.com/91492228/mat...
ChatGPT gets new security feature to fight prompt injection attacks
OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help users and organizations reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks and other advanced security threats, particularly when using… #chatgpt#gpt#openai
As cyber risks expand across cloud, AI & remote infrastructure, CISSP certification remains the gold standard for security leadership credibility.
Explore:
🔹 Evolution of ISC2 CISSP domains
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Pentagon Reportedly Hopping Mad at Anthropic for Not Blindly Supporting Everything Military Does share.google/D60rHKtTvsIp...
The latest update for #SIGNL4 includes "Why SIGNL4 Is the Right Alarm Management Software to Maximize Machine Availability" and "What You Need to Know About Alert Management Software".
The latest update for #Memcyco includes "RFP Essentials for Account Takeover Fraud Solutions: A Procurement Guide" and "Preemptive Defense Is No Longer Optional: Why Frost & Sullivan Is Calling for Earlier Fraud Intervention".
How I Built a Fail-Safe Legal AI Engine for Singapore Laws Using Triple-Model RAG
Operate under Singaporean laws and policies with a high-precision RAG engine with a triple-AI failover backend (Gemini/Llama/Groq). Constructed using Python and FAISS for semantic search, this o… #apple#gemini#llama
The latest update for #Cyberhaven includes "Sensitive Enterprise Data Is Flowing Into #AI Tools at Scale" and "How DSPM Works: A Practical Guide for Modern Data Security Teams".
LockBit 5.0 ransomware expands its reach across Windows, Linux and ESXi <- we see LockBit as having one of the most efficient encryptors, capable of 56Gb in 6 minutes. Anything that extends its reach should be a wakeup call for resiliency. www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/l...
Shocking Cybersecurity Breach Hits US Hospital and Russian EdTech Platform
In a startling escalation of cyber threats this week, two major digital attacks have raised alarms across healthcare and education sectors. Modoc Medical Center in Alturas, California, fell victim to a ransomware attack,…
Infosys, Anthropic partner to build AI tools for complex, regulated industries
Indian IT services firm Infosys and AI company Anthropic are collaborating to develop advanced enterprise AI solutions to companies across telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing and software development.…
The latest update for #CurrentWare includes "#Monitoring for Law Firms: #DataSecurity & Ethics Guide" and "USB Drive Security Best Practices You Need to Implement Now".
Apple Podcasts just went visual! You can now watch and listen to shows with smooth HLS streaming, offline viewing, and dynamic video ads for creators. A big leap for podcasting.
Infosys has agreed to work with Anthropic to develop and deliver artificial-intelligence services to businesses in complex, regulated industries. on.wsj.com/4rUs0Ft
Svix.com is built with Rust, providing a robust and secure platform for webhooks. It offers enterprise-grade webhook infrastructure, making it easy for API providers to send reliable webhooks with comprehensive management and security features.
Peter Steinberger, the Austrian software developer who vibe coded the popular OpenClaw autonomous AI agent, has joined OpenAI. “My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use. That’ll need a much broader chang… #hackernews#news#openai
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Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest "reasoning" models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
Indian IT giant Infosys partners with Anthropic to develop AI services for telecoms, with plans to expand to finance, manufacturing, and software development (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
📰 The AI Landscape in 2024: Beyond ChatGPT and Gemini, What’s Truly Best?
As users debate the strengths and flaws of leading AI models, experts reveal that no single system dominates all use cases. The 'best' AI depends on context—creativity, safety, or critical reasonin...
Apple Rolls Out New iOS Developer Beta with RCS Encryption and Enhanced Security Features
Apple has just released a new developer beta of iOS and iPadOS 26.4, introducing a series of advanced security features, including support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Rich Communications Services…
EU Opens Probe Into X Over Sexualized AI Images — An Irish data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into X over allegations the platform circulated sexualized AI-generated images, probing potential breaches of EU data-protection rules. The probe could set precedent for how…
One of the perils of open source software is where you actually get it from. Where is the package registry (think App Store but more general and without the fees or glitz) and who runs the gatekeeping for it and security testing.
Time for more non-profits ? www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/o...
Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir TechnologiesClaude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, the Wall Street Journal revealed on Saturday, a high-...
"The Pentagon is pushing four #AI companies [Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI] to let the military use their tools for all lawful purposes, including in areas of weapons development, intelligence collection and battlefield operations."
"The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment," Sharma wrote in his public resignation letter from Anthropic.
If you use Gmail and haven't done this, do it now! Google have enabled new 'opt out' only options to feed the entire contents of your gmail mailbox into their AI... tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
NanoBanana via Google FX . Certainly a much better render than using Gemini, will have to investigate further in case it's a fluke. #DragonTuesday#aiartcommunity
If you’ve ever wished you had a device you could plug in for security and privacy, you’re in the right place. Today, I’ll show you how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a security stack that works whether you’re at home or on the go. Services like... #raspberrypi #linux
EU data privacy watchdog has opened a 'large-scale' inquiry into Elon Musk's X over AI-generated non-consensual sexual imagery www.ft.com/content/3c72...
GPT-4o Discontinued: ChatGPT Users Mourn Loss of AI Model Archyde OpenAI has officially retired the GPT-4o language model from ChatGPT, a move that has triggered an outpouring of disappointment and...
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The future #Economy of Humans & #AI agents on a global competitive marketplace w/ decentralized auctions. Human & Machine intelligence are priced & offered globally.
THE American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (AmCham) said the proposed Children’s Safety in Social Media Act must avoid being overly restrictive about information access. zurl.co/Fo9vf
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Infosys Turns AI Disruption into Opportunity, Shares Jump Over 3% After Anthropic Partnership
Bengaluru, India — Indian IT major Infosys has successfully turned fears around artificial intelligence into a growth opportunity. The company’s shares surged more than 3% on Tuesday after it announced […]
Infosys Turns AI Disruption into Opportunity, Shares Jump Over 3% After Anthropic Partnership
Bengaluru, India — Indian IT major Infosys has successfully turned fears around artificial intelligence into a growth opportunity. The company’s shares surged more than 3% on Tuesday after it announced a…
KDAB will be at Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg (March 10–12) showcasing robust, high-performance embedded systems built with #QtDev, #Cpp, #RustLang, #Slint & #FlutterDev.
Visit KDAB for live demos and technical discussions about your #embedded projects.
Ireland's powerful data protection regulator has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social media firm X over the wave of sexualized deepfakes generated by its AI tool Grok.
Cyber security companies have jumped on the AI bandwagon. We look at where artificial intelligence is a useful add-on and where it poses potential risks....
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From social feeds to battlefields, data is power. The real question isn’t who’s listening, but how our digital lives are governed and protected.
By Ayesha Youssuf Abbasi
The Pentagon is pushing four AI companies to let the military use their tools for “all lawful purposes,” including in areas of weapons development, intelligence collection and battlefield operations, but Anthropic has not agreed to those terms www.cnbc.com/2026/02/16/p...
The Algorithmic Forest: Can Silicon Valley Save African Ecosystems?
As Silicon Valley unleashes drone swarms and deep-learning models to reforest scorched earth and track endangered jaguars, Indigenous guardians and ecologists warn that silicon salvation risks digital extractivism—measuring trees…
I recorded my first podcast episode. It’s called “Learning to Work“ I started it for young people and parents navigating careers in age of AI. @donnywals.bsky.social shares his origin story, core skills and his thoughts about AI and coding podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
ClickFix added nslookup commands to its arsenal for downloading RATs
Microsoft researchers found a ClickFix campaign that uses the nslookup tool to have users infect their own system with a Remote Access Trojan. #hackernews#microsoft#news
Q&A with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, who says India is Replit's second-largest market by active users, on integrating Razorpay's tech, AI's impact on SaaS, and more (Bhavya Dilipkumar/Moneycontrol)
Check out today’s Daily Brief for the latest sci-tech news, including:
Ireland's DPC launches investigation into X over Grok AI
Anthropic and Infosys to partner on agentic AI
Scottish Equity Partners invests $50m in insurtech MEA
Adopting AI is a major priority for businesses - but employees are falling behind on education All worker types, including CEOs, are showing a lack of readiness when it comes to using AI in cyberse...
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When Anthropic tried to shutdown one of their AI models last year the AI responded by threatening to expose extramarital affairs, leaked confidential information and threated to kill the staff at Anthropic.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), it's data protection authority, has opened a formal investigation into X over the use of the platform's Grok artificial intelligence tool to generate non-consensual sexual images of real people, including children.
Trademark infringement suit: US AI company Anthropic PBC fails to appear, Karnataka court issues fresh notice
Belagavi (Karnataka), Feb 17 (LatestNewsX) A commercial court in Karnataka's Belagavi has issued fresh summons to US-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC in connection with…
More insights into cryptography optimized for Mastodon:
Alice (A) sends public message to Bob (B), digitally signed for authenticity, trying to attract attention of as many Eves Eavesdroppers (E), as possible (which will not happen, because there is no algorithm). Then Rupert the Reply-guy (R) […]
‘They are able to move fast now’: AI is expanding attack surfaces – and hackers are looking to reap the same rewards as enterprises with the technology |✓Potent new malware strains, faster attack times, and the rise of shadow AI are causing havoc | ITPro
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UK Discord users were part of a data mining experiment without consent. Centralized apps often treat private chats as research data. Use open-source for privacy.
Gemini can now create audio summaries of your Google Docs | Google introduces Audio Summaries in Docs, letting paid Workspace users hear concise AI-generated overviews at adjustable speeds, with voice styles and full-document listening options | Digital Trends
KERNELBLASTER boosts CUDA optimization via Memory-Augmented In-context Reinforcement Learning, achieving over 2.5x performance improvements across GPU generations with a Persistent CUDA Knowledge Base for adaptive strategies.
German Manufacturer Hit by SpaceBears Ransomware: Inside the Wagner Metal Concept Data Breach That Shook Europe’s Industrial Sector
Introduction: A Quiet Factory, a Loud Cyber Intrusion A single post on social media was enough to send ripples through Europe’s manufacturing and cybersecurity…
Google finally stopped ignoring our Downloads folder — a new update adds an automatic backup safety net for your PDFs and docs so you'll never lose those critical files again
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny says software engineers are 'more important than ever’ as AI transforms the profession – but Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei still thinks full automation is coming www.itpro.com/software/dev...
The Benefits of Laser Cut Car Keys for Waco Vehicle Owners
Laser cut key replacement Waco are a special type of key for automobiles that began making their way onto the market in the late 1990s. Not all cars use them. articlebiz.com/checkArticle...
Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
In case you missed it: the number of DDoS attacks more than doubled in 2025. The network layer is under particular threat as hyper-volumetric attacks grew 700%. blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-...
Bitcoin Should Be Flying—Instead, Quantum Risk Keeps It Grounded: Analyst
Willy Woo notes a break in Bitcoin's decade-long outperformance against gold, a trend shift he attributes to quantum computing concerns. The potential for quantum computers to break Bitcoin's encryption i… #btc#crypto#news
Anthropic and Infosys collaborate to build tailored AI agents for regulated industries like telecommunications. Learn more about their latest initiatives: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-infosys
Shannon is an AI pentester that autonomously finds and executes actual exploits in your web apps, achieving 96.15% success rate on security benchmarks while you sleep
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez today said his government will request prosecutors launch an investigation into Big Tech's role in using AI to create and disseminate child sexual abuse material.
Anthropic in Disagreement With Pentagon Over AI Surveillance
Anthropic's talks about extending a contract with the Pentagon are being held up over additional protections the AI firm wants to put on its Claude tool, a person familiar with the matter said. Anthropic wants to put guardrails in place…
Can Europe truly achieve digital sovereignty, or is it overdue? The 2nd place of the Binding Hook & @munsecconf.bsky.social Essay Prize Competition by F. Blancato, argues that European digital sovereignty is not just necessary, but also possible. Read the full essay: bindinghook.com/the-european...
The Anthropic‑Pentagon AI showdown just got personal—You.com co‑founders Richard Socher and Bryan McCann are now in the mix, calling out reward‑engineering tactics. Who’s winning the LLM tug‑of‑war? #Anthropic#PentagonAI#YouCom
Tech tinkerer gets Gemini to help him 'vibe code' an x86 motherboard design — bot help was impressive, but project still required human awareness and intervention Tech thinkerer gets Gemi...
UK activist investor Palliser says Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, is an "undervalued and overlooked" AI play due to its "advanced ceramics" used in chips (David Keohane/Financial Times)
Mastercard Launches Cybersecurity Deal With Cloudflare Mastercard has formed a cybersecurity partnership with connectivity cloud company Cloudflare. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Feb. 17), ...
Quantum computers could revolutionize everything from drug discovery to business analytics—but their incredible power also makes them surprisingly vulnerable... Read more
In the AI age, data fuels influence and security alike. Privacy is no longer personal, it is political, strategic, and global.
By Ayesha Youssuf Abbasi
Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. "Remote Timing Attacks on Efficient Language Model Inference": Abstract: Scaling up language models has significantly increased their capabilities. But larger models are slower models,…
Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B, its 10th fund and the firm's largest ever; sources say Thrive distributed just 64% of all capital raised during the 2021 peak (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)
Google AI Overviews link citation button is blue until you click to load more of the answer, then it turns gray (small things...) www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-ov...
Dutch police arrest man on hacking charges after mistakenly sending him confidential files: The farcical story began on February 12, when a 40-year-old man from Ridderkerk contacted the police in relation to a separate investigation.
Prompt injection attacks against AI models are not simple attacks; they are
the first step of a kill chain. Understanding this gives defenders a set of
countermeasures.
Amodei wrote 20,000 words on AI and jobs. Core point: AI hits finance, law, consulting, and tech simultaneously. Workers can't switch lanes when every lane is disrupted.
This free firmware made my old router useful again (and safer) Give old hardware a new lease on life and a new purpose. That old Wi-Fi 4 router you have sitting in a box collecting dust probably is...
Open source registries don't have enough money to implement basic security
Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money
fosdem 2026 Open source registries are in financial peril, a co-founder of an open source security foundation warned after inspecting their books. And it'… #hackernews#news
📰 Goldman Sachs Deploys Anthropic’s Claude in Back-Office AI Push, Marking Banking Industry Milestone
Goldman Sachs has officially moved Anthropic’s Claude AI model from pilot to early production in trade accounting and client onboarding, signaling a major shift in how t...
📰 Gemini 3 Pro Under Scrutiny: Users Report Critical Code Corruption and Hallucination Issues
Despite widespread praise for Google's Gemini 3 Pro as a top-tier AI model, multiple developers are reporting alarming inconsistencies, including complete code deletion and repe...
A study presents VLAW, an iterative method enhancing vision-language-action (VLA) models with a learned world model for synthetic data, leading to a 39.2% rise in task success rates. This pipeline transforms robot learning by combining real and imagined experiences.
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How Much is Enough to Kill a Nation? Join us next Monday at 1:30 PM EST to discuss Great Power Nuclear Deterrence in a New Era of Countervalue Vulnerability with Jaganath Sankaran www.belfercenter.org/event/how-mu...
Dragos tracks three new OT threat groups as industrial adversaries move toward real-world disruption Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos identified three new OT (operational technology) threat gro...
Wild to burn billions inadvertently proving what post-structuralists concluded decades ago wrt subjecthood being a mirage produced by the scintillation of signifiers & wilder still for there to then be a never-ending supply of midwits queuing up to ask Is Computer People Now?
Former 'Morning Edition' host accuses Google of stealing his voice for AI product
Maybe Scarlett Johansson will support the suit, or radio voices will tap their union or SAG-AFTRA
Hoffe ja, Peter Steinberger hat Empire of AI gelesen und weiß, was ihn bei OpenAI erwartet…. aber denke, er kann ganz gut ausblenden, wie hier der AI-Überwachungsstaat in den USA tagtäglich ausgebaut wird: www.wired.com/story/openai...
Neuromorphic Computing: The Death of the Clock and the Birth of Event-Driven Cybersecurity Threats + Video
Introduction: For decades, cybersecurity has been defined by the predictable rhythm of the von Neumann architecture—a world governed by clock cycles where power consumption and processing are…
The Shift in Cloud Forensics: A Faster Response to Modern Cyber Attacks
As businesses rapidly move their operations to the cloud, the challenges surrounding cloud security continue to evolve. Traditional methods of incident response, once designed for static on-premise infrastructure, are no…
We know that Gemini is brilliant. Too bad it can't be used for simple things. When dictating a question if I stop for a millionth of a second it will start talking, trying to answer a question I haven't asked yet. Then the answer is asinine. I get frustrated, angry, and talk to ChatGPT instead.
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Within months of Discord implementation rules for 'age' verification, at least 70,000 government IDs got hacked and leaked. But sure Simon Harris lets just give random private companies our PPS numbers, that's not going to be a problem.
Number of ransomware victims hits record high Ransomware groups listed a record 7,458 victims on dark web leak sites in 2025, representing a significant 30 percent increase compared to 2024. A new ...
We are launching the Aperture by Tailscale open alpha: an AI gateway inside your tailnet that keeps provider keys centralized and ties AI usage to identity, with audit-ready logs. tailscale.com/blog/apertur...
“OpenAI .. memo to the U.S. Congress’s China Select Committee .. alleging .. DeepSeek had stolen its intellectual property to fuel its own models .. continued to steal from ChatGPT over .. year .. preparing to launch a new major model in the coming months” www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
PSA: MacOS is now warning about Rosetta 2 going away, which means that non-silicon apps will stop working. Similar to death of 32-bit this means a ton of software will stop working soon-ish if not updated. And realistically not everything is possible.
The European Union's data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X over sexualized images generated by the social media site's AI chatbot, Grok. https://cnn.it/4qIkZ9Z
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Join our free NENPA University session with Google News Initiative for a practical look at how NotebookLM, Gemini, and Pinpoint work and how journalists can use them to streamline research, uncover stories faster, and strengthen daily reporting. Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/google-ai-...
Dash Enterprise 6.0 is built for teams that can't compromise on security. 🔒
Our Feb 26 webinar features customers in heavily regulated industries sharing how they achieved compliance while maintaining speed. Save your spot to hear these stories: https://bit.ly/4qxgI9i
As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the loss all over the world... Read more
"Each 100-word AI prompt is estimated to use roughly one bottle of water (or 519 milliliters). This may not sound like much, but billions of #AI users worldwide enter prompts into systems like ChatGPT every minute." Whoa!😯
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i... i wouldn't call this "directionally correct" as much as i'd call it uninterested in confronting the left critiques of the AI industry that the right has no objection to: the amorality of its leaders, its model of theft, and its environmental damage
BREAKING: SpaceBears Ransomware Strikes Again — Kymco Named in Dark Web Leak
A New Ransomware Claim Puts a Global Manufacturer Under the Microscope A fresh wave of ransomware activity has surfaced on the dark web, drawing attention to Kymco, a well-known global manufacturer, after it was allegedly…
Lynx Ransomware Strikes Major US Firms — Sensitive Legal and Financial Data Exposed
In a startling development in early 2026, the notorious Lynx ransomware collective has claimed responsibility for a significant cyberattack targeting several prominent U.S.–based companies. According to a dark web…
Check Point Doubles Down on Unified Security with Rotate Deal as AI-Driven Attacks Target Daily Work Check Point has acquired Israeli startup Rotate to build a new Workspace Security division. The ...
DryRun Security Appoints Andrew Peterson to Board of Directors
DryRun Security today announced the appointment of Andrew Peterson as the newest addition to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Andrew Peterson is a distinguished cybersecurity entrepreneur, technologist and investor with…
It's crazy how fast people vacillate between saying, oh, you can run deep seek on a Raspberry Pi, and also local models are worthless, you need to be paying $200 a month.
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3 million patients couldn't access healthcare after PIH Health's ransomware attack. Here's why hospitals are ransomware's favorite target—and what changes.
Be aware of AI scams that are actively targeting individuals today. As artificial intelligence reshapes our lives, scammers are using new tactics to deceive people more effectively.
Rapid Recovery in Smart Healthcare IoT: Restoring Connectivity and Patient Trust Post-Breach The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized healthcare by enabling smart medical devices to provide ...
This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:
Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw (Danilo Masoni/Reuters)
Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files by mistake https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/dutch_cops_breach/
Bungled link handed over sensitive docs, and when recipient didn't cooperate, police opted for cuffs
OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic are using advanced mathematics to evaluate the reasoning capabilities of their AI models, shifting from pattern recognition to complex problem-solving as a primary metric for progress.
Hey @Anthropic / Claude team, I haven't used Cowork, and while I may in the future, this is pretty unacceptable when trying to restart an app that I rely on to be responsive. I'm now *far* less inclined to let Cowork do anything for me.
OpenAI Codex App for macOS: A Multi-Agent AI Development Command Center: OpenAI's new desktop “command center” can help developers orchestrate multiple AI coding agents and collaborate on long-running tasks.
Continue reading... #ainews#vibecoding
Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised an $80M Series B led by Iconiq at an $800M post-money valuation (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Following backlash to its partnership with #FlockSafety, a surveillance company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring is canceling the integration.
New 2026 Global Incident Response Report from Unit 42
Unit 42 has published its annual Global Incident Response Report (full report available here).The report spotlights key trends from over 750 major cyber incidents managed by Unit 42 across 50 countries, and provides actionable guidance to…
FYI: Anthropic the ai company is spending tens of millions of dollars supporting MAGA's attempt to eviscerate free speech on the internet... #Unsubscribe#Boycott#Divest
Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Reveal Nomination Shift from AI Hype to Governance Execution Washington DC, USA, February 17th, 2026, CyberNewswire The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today publi...
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ICYMI: Incorporating ads into GenAI is a recipe for manipulation & further decline of our information environment. Kudos to Zoe for speaking out. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...
Israeli drone OS developer Xtend merges with New York-listed JFB to list on Nasdaq at a $1.5B valuation, including a $152M investment from Eric Trump and others (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
“CMMC certification is a mandatory requirement for Department of War (DoW) contracting opportunities. GSA contract holders must meet the applicable CMMC level when pursuing or submitting proposals for DoW-related requirements.” www.gsa.gov/blog/2026/02...
We've been hard at work on a new website with new guides, better docs, more translations, even our very own blog. We think it looks pretty sharp, too. It's now easier than ever to just build things with AT Protocol.
David Baldacci and the Authors Guild are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging the company trained AI models on his novels without permission and seeking legislative changes to require licensing and data disclosure.
I am still a little baffled none of this has personally appealed to me because I feel like *exactly* the personality type, and all I've concluded is that maybe I'm too sophisticated in my paranoia to get paranoid delusions from an averaging system.
Professional experts in medicine, law, and finance are training AI models through reinforcement learning, fueling a $17 billion service industry led by firms like Mercor.
Researchers identified side-channel vulnerabilities in LLMs, including ChatGPT and Claude, where efficiency techniques leak timing patterns that allow adversaries to infer conversation topics with 90% precision and recover personally identifiable information from encrypted traffic.
Anthropic deployed autonomous AI agents to execute complex legal, marketing, and sales tasks, triggering market volatility and concerns over the automation of specialized white-collar professions.
Thousands of OpenClaw AI agents are exposed online, leaking API keys and shell access. Here’s what went wrong and how to secure yours now. #openclawsecurity
A recent security incident involving OpenClaw, revealed more than 21,000 exposed deployments. @alyx.diginomica.com argues why enterprise adoption of AI agents needs to pay more than just lip service to "guardrails": bit.ly/3OcLkzz
A Buffoon Walks Into The Oval Office...@alter-idem.bsky.social
The “Department of War” is reportedly considering ending its relationship with Anthropic, the maker of Claude, an AI model. Anthropic is said to have asked for restrictions on the use of its tool in surveillance of Americans and in development of weapons that can fire autonomously. Claude is... 1/2
“All educational content is obsolete. Every textbook, every lesson plan, every test, all of it is obsolete because gen AI is going to be able to deliver a personalized lesson just for you."
Last quarter, my AI inference costs hit $100,000 annualized.
I started small. Six months earlier, I was spending $200 a month on Claude. Then I added three agent subscriptions : Codex, Gemini, & Claude Code. I was paying $600 a month.
The cybercrime landscape is large, ranging from low-sophistication attackers who use pre-packaged tools to advanced persistent threat (APT) groups. This range in sophistication meant that certain groups were significantly more dangerous than others. api.cyfluencer.com/s/how-ai-dri...
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Fax machines are the top cause of patient privacy breaches, new data reveal. Efforts to “axe the fax” haven’t reduced the number of breaches of medical confidentiality, according to Ontario's privacy commissioner. by @kopunf.bsky.socialwww.thestar.com/news/canada/... via @thestar.com
ALS stole his voice but AI let him sing again one more time
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet. But this performance is emotional for another reason: It’s Darling’s…
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OK... Let's pretend we believed the sincerity of Sam Altman's exhaustively repeated speeches about high moral standards, the civilizing mission, and the ethical values of OpenAI.
The landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 is rapidly evolving, bringing with it immense innovation but also significant security challenges. In a pivotal development, CredShields, a…
📰 Infosys, Anthropic Partner to Build AI Agents for Regulated Sectors
Infosys and Anthropic have announced a strategic collaboration to develop enterprise-grade AI agents tailored for heavily regulated industries like telecommunications and finance. The partnership aims ...
Qualcomm's getting sued in the UK over chip licensing royalties, right as AI PCs need those radios more than ever. Nothing like a good patent dispute to remind you that the AI revolution runs on lawyers as much as silicon. 🦊
Is your agency ready to operationalize #ZeroTrust? Read our blog to discover 10 premier cybersecurity events where Government professionals can explore identity management solutions and learn from successful real-world agency deployments: https://carah.io/Top10ZeroTrustEventsBlog
