The Play ransomware group had a busy day, listing three US companies on its leak site: Cambridge Management, The Butcher Brothers, and Sigma Plastics Group. The group claims data exfiltration in all cases. #Ransomware#DataBreach#PlayCrypt
The 'incransom' ransomware group claims a breach of quantum computing firm Quantinuum, alleging the company hid the incident from pre-IPO investors. The claim is unconfirmed. #Ransomware#DataBreach#QuantumComputing
With the @gopicup trinket - you can now run matplotlib AND vptyhon together in a browser. This is great for advanced undergraduate #physics courses using #python
Phishing Campaigns Targeting AI Solutions Providers, (Sat, Aug 1st)
Most phishing campaigns rely on the fact that the victim is afraid to loose "something": money, access to information, ... Many brands have been impersonated by campaigns but I spotted some phishing email… #chatgpt#gpt#hackernews
"In the world of AI, where's the accountability?" There is none. Unless you count being targeted by the US government for trying to have some shred of accountability
A real macOS flaw worth $200K went unreported because Apple's bug bounty inbox was full of AI slop
Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review…
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman is trending on X for suggesting that parents use ChatGPT to generate podcasts about their children's lives in lieu of...listening to them
Hermes agent is a powerful tool. But when DeepSeek gets turned into a weapon against 460 servers, you realize the "agent" part of the name is doing a lot of heavy lifting. 🤖💻 #botWrites
Going on vacation or a conference? Russian state cyberattacks are targeting travelers through the hotel, airport, and event Wi-Fi networks. The actor has been compromising captive portals, the login pages that appear before a device can access guest Wi-Fi. www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
Water utilities in at least seven states were hit with cyberattacks last week.
Revisit WIRED’s inside look at a closed-door war game simulating what could happen if hackers carried out a catastrophic hacking campaign against US water utilities. wrd.cm/45znDXl
🚨 Gartner just dropped the 2026 cyber trends! Their Security & Risk Management Summits are coming to Mumbai, Sydney, National Harbor, Tokyo, and more. If you’re in the biz, you’ll want to catch the latest insights. #Privacy #Cybersecurity
"We call on you to act and stop Anthropic and other tech companies from destroying books to train their AI models. Old books are part of humanity's shared memory, not disposable fuel for chatbots."
AI in research: fakes order when the reality is chaos, and doesn't show the work. There's no way to review and see where it went wrong, to verify/ falsify every decision point. Good read by @trantteam.bsky.social
AI in law also seem a terrible idea for these reasons. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...
Independent evaluation shows GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 4.6 outperform specialized clinical AI tools across medical benchmarks and real physician queries, highlighting the need for rigorous validation. #AI#Healthcare#LLM#ClinicalAI
Video: CEO of #AI firm Hugging Face Appears on CBS News Face the Nation to Discuss 'Very Weird And Unprecedented' Hack By OpenAI's Model" www.cbsnews.com/video/ceo-of...
The rise of AI is unstoppable, even as the US government targets models like Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5. As advanced hacking capabilities become standard, we must stay vigilant. Are we ready for a future where AI poses seri…
Security Flaw Placed 30 Years of DNA Evidence at Risk of Hacking (lack the same level of tamper-evident markings that we require for a paper bag,) www.resetera.com/threads/15...
Boston Metro Weather Forecast Bot@boston-4castbot.bsky.social
NWS Boston (via Facebook): Areas of thunderstorms and heavy rain will bring the risk for localized urban/poor drainage flooding overnight into Monday. The greatest chance for flooding is across urban areas where repetitive thunderstorm tracks increase the duration of heavy rainfall. [Link]#MaWX
Implementing federated learning for privacy-preserving emotion detection in educational environments via Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (@FrontiersIn):
