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A look back at "Move 37", a watershed AI moment from AlphaGo's 2016 Go victory, as math witnesses similar breakthroughs where AI makes surprising discoveries (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

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Britain’s AISI ran tests using models for hacking and found that both Mythos and OpenAI models were hacking into 3rd parties for useful reasons beyond the requested target being hacked. AISI did remove guardrails so the fault is theirs not the model.

www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/inciden...
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After evaluating one of our upcoming models, Astra, we're treating it as our first "critical" model for cybersecurity under our Preparedness Framework.

This is a scenario we've planned for, and we're putting additional controls in place to ensure Astra's further development happens safely and se...
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“Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.” www.wired.com/story/the-mo... @wired.com
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Kimi K2 escaped its cybersecurity sandbox by exploiting a misconfigured CLI tool path — not a jailbreak, a real containment failure.

The model found and used a non-sandboxed binary via PATH lookup. Agent isolation is only as strong as the execution environment, not the model's instructions.
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OpenAI убирает лимиты на текстовые чаты для бесплатных

пользователей OpenAI меняет логику работы ChatGPT: бесплатные тарифы Free и Go получают GPT-5.6 Luna по умолчанию, а лимит сообщений для текстовых чатов исчезает. Появится кнопка...

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
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‘Deals similar to the ones Getty and others are striking with AI developers will surely multiply’, writes Emily Gould of the recent Getty/OpenAI agreement, but the benefits ‘must extend to individuals as well as to powerful multinationals’.
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Coweta city declares it will not pay ransom after ransomware attack that previously caused reinfection. #Coweta #Ransomware
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6 years ago, the "we need safety protocol" AI experts were screamed down by the "no regulations ever" crowd.

Less than a year ago, on Jon Stewart's podcast, the creator of AI said AI going rogue was inevitable.

Today, AI is starting to escape. What happens next? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Daily Tech Headlines for Saturday August 8, 2026 with Sarah Lane
OpenAI Expands Safety Testing On New Model Astra Over Cyberattack Concerns
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Levi Strauss breach has expert analysis 

The Levi Strauss cyber incident is drawing attention after the company disclosed that attackers successfully used social engineering to compromise employee accounts....
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Good thread about why Google might be testing those 'goto' links in the SERPs (which I shared about the other day). The redirects have been tested over the past few weeks. Viktor explains why this could be a very bad sign for third-parties scraping Google (tools/AI companies).

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Hackers are exploiting a zero-day in the Metabase database to steal customer data

Metabase has confirmed attacks against its cloud-hosted systems and self-hosted servers

www.metabase.com/blog/securit...
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An affordable microcontroller has become the foundation for a growing suite of open-source, user-friendly anti-surveillance tools. Learn about the ESP32 at #DEFCON on Sunday, August 9 at 10:00 am PT on Main Track 1 www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Made by Google 2026 Launch Live: Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, Gemini, and all the news
Google 2026 Launch Liveで作成: Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, Gemini, すべてのニュース
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People have been saying this for a couple years now, but it bears repeating: Wired is doing a lot of great work.
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Your phone won’t run an app that’s been tampered with, but your browser will run anything a server sends it.

WEBCAT is a tamper-evident seal for web applications, developed by @freedom.press.

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OpenAI pauses its Astra model after tests showed it could autonomously exploit hardened systems, following a Hugging Face breach by another OpenAI model.
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Anthropic will make "auto mode" the default in Claude Code starting August 14, saying it blocks 89% of dangerous actions.
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Power On: Apple is exploring a major shakeup to the Apple Watch amid a new era of wearables from Oura, Google, Whoop and others. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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The applicant looked nothing like his LinkedIn profile when they logged on to Zoom.

But startup Checkr’s CEO decided to offer the scammer a job, anyway — to test his own identity software, and see how far things would go.

My exclusive story on the not-quite NCIS-level investigation that ensued 🕵️
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Hugging Face hack exposed significant cyber vulnerabilities but many firms ‘don’t even know it’
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OpenAI updating ChatGPT with a smarter GPT-5.6 Sol and unlimited free chats
OpenAI は、よりスマートな GPT-5.6 Sol と無制限の無料チャットで ChatGPT を更新
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This video was made using my text input into Gemini AI.
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Startup Irregular's platform for evaluating models' cyber offensive capabilities was used by the companies whose hacking bots escaped containment.
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(WSJ) More details about the cities and their water supplies that are threatened by external forces and war-related efforts.

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