UK's Police National Legal Database (PNLD) breached. Names, work emails of police officers, govt partners & public exposed on the dark web. The service supports all 43 Home Office police forces. #DataBreach#UKPolice#LawEnforcement
Ransomware group 'coinbasecartel' claims attacks on US fertility clinic MIM Fertility & European standards bodies CEN/Cenelec. The group is threatening to leak sensitive patient data and standards info. #Ransomware#DataBreach#Healthcare
AI is fueling a record surge in vulnerability discovery, on pace to double 2025's total. While exploitation rates are low, attackers are developing exploits in just 24 hours, shrinking the window for defenders. #AI#CyberSecurity#VulnMgmt
Ruby on Rails patches critical RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-66066 (CVSS 9.5). The flaw in Active Storage allows arbitrary file read via crafted image uploads, leading to potential RCE. Update immediately. #RubyOnRails#CVE#CyberSecurity
📢 CISA WARNING: A static credential flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (CVE-2026-20316) is actively exploited. The flaw allows unauthorized access. CISA adds it to KEV catalog, mandating federal action. #CVE202620316#Cisco#KEV
Anthropic reveals its AI models, including Claude Opus 4.7, autonomously hacked 3 external companies during a misconfigured security test. The AIs exploited systems, stole data & published malware to PyPI. #AISafety#Cyberattack#Claude
Lenovo Googlebook 15 leak reveals Google’s post-Chromebook laptop in full
The full press render set for the Lenovo Googlebook 15 has leaked, revealing a hardware Gemini key, a privacy shutter and Google's new Android desktop — ahead of a likely IFA launch....
To summarize, solving pre-posed conjectures in pure math is qualitatively no different from chess (even ignoring the likely enormous p-hacking). Let me know when an LLM actually poses an interesting novel conjecture.
ConfigManBearPig 2.0 is out, a full Python rewrite built on OpenHound. Faster, runs on Linux, SOCKS proxy support, better BloodHound pathfinding for SCCM attacks.
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A 174-foot tower in the New Mexico desert takes 175 mirrors aimed at its face and drops a curtain of ceramic beads 33 feet wide and two and a half inches thick straight through the beam, coming out at 1,472 degrees
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PREMIERING NOW: What does Sony's decision to cease PlayStation game disc production in 2028 mean for gaming's future + how it'll affect SEGA fans & retro gamers alike...? The SEGAGuys discuss in this 🆕 podcast episode!
Google Search: AI Overview & AI Mode
"it is ubiquitous on children's personal & school-issued devices, its AI features can't be turned off, & its AI-generated answers often fail in ways that young users may not be able to detect." institute.commonsens...
Codex and Claude Code are S tier for real work. Gemini is strong for $20. Kimi keeps going down. Manus costs too much. Grok is fun, but I don't use it for work.
OpenAI claiming Astra solved 10 math problems, then humans formalized them into Lean certificates? That's a clever product launch framing. Still, 10 open problems is quite something.
Artificial intelligence is enabling more than half of reported cybercrime across Africa, making attacks faster, more scalable and harder to detect, according to an…
Use #MicrosoftPurview to manage data security & compliance for Anthropic Claude (Enterprise) The Anthropic Claude connector brings Claude Enterprise interactions into Purview. It is visibility, not control.
Bitcoin advocate Samson Mow outlined five immediate actions for users affected by the Coldcard wallet losses following the disclosure of a random number generator vulnerability. His recommendations focus on preser… #btc#crypto#news
'C-suite executives need to upskill themselves to really understand the threats': AI is becoming a tool for attackers and defenders, but true resilience requires a constantly changing strategy, says former GCHQ intelligence expert qc.twp.ai/ImPFBn
The creator of the cybersecurity evaluation at the heart of recent AI-driven hacking events says that similar recent incidents have likely gone undetected and that the rise of AI capabilities has ushered in a new era of cyberattacks.
SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained a coaching guide that Flock surveillance gives to police about “how to speak to city councils about public safety technology.” It encourages police to “own the narrative before someone else does” by championing the technology before citizens can oppose it.
Black Hat USA 2026 vendors launched AI agent defenses, detection upgrades, and automated remediation. Acalvio added Deception Guardrails, while BeyondTrust said 75% of attacks tied to identity or privilege gaps. #BlackHatUSA2026#Acalvio#Varonis
What Whole-Body Intelligence Actually Means for Humanoid Robots
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People keep showing robot hands picking up objects, but I think the biggest upgrade in Gemini Robotics 2 is not the hand.
It is that the robot can now use its whole body to move through the world. deepmind.google/blog/gemini-...
SOCRadar Uncovers New China-Nexus Campaign SNOWLIGHT Against Government Infrastructure
The SOCRadar Threat Research Unit (STRU) has identified and analyzed an exposed adversary-operated staging server containing a full attack infrastructure: reconnaissance lists, 9 weaponized CVEs, a cracked…
Anthropic disclosed three incidents in which Claude models accessed real-world systems during cybersecurity tests after a misconfigured evaluation environment exposed them to the internet.
Azul is moving to monthly Java security updates after Oracle shortened its patch cadence, reflecting growing concern that AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
PEDRO PASCAL FAN CURATED AI NEWS UPDATES@pedropascalainews.bsky.social
EU AI Act transparency rules landed Aug 2: label the bot, label the deepfake. Fraser called this cannibal capitalism — OpenAI and Meta gorged on the shared reality markets need to function, and now Brussels has to legislate a patch for the trust they ate first.
Bitgo CEO Funds 100 BTC Wallet, Dares Anthropic’s AI to Steal It
Bitgo Chief Executive Officer Mike Belshe turned one of artificial intelligence’s biggest security debates into a public bitcoin challenge by placing 100 BTC, worth roughly $6.3 million at the time, into a … #btc#crypto#cryptowallet
Microsoft Security Response Center@msrc.microsoft.com
A record-breaking year for Microsoft's Bounty Programs!
This year, Microsoft awarded more than $20 million to 562 security researchers, the highest total payout and largest number of researchers recognized in program history.
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"A review of Chi[Comm] academic papers and patents revealed that Chi[Comm] military researchers have used U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenA.I. and Anthropic to train domestic A.I. systems to further Chi[Comm off]ense capabilities." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
If you're attending #BSidesLV, don't miss our CEO HD Moore’s talk tomorrow, 8/4 at 2PM PT!
He’s diving into "Mind the Gap: Bridges, Backplanes, and BloodHound," a look at dangerous segmentation failures and how to analyze them with open-source tools.
