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📢 The country's cyber watchdog says it's testing New Zealand government owned software code to improve its security.
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Windows has location services turned on by default, and it’s a bigger privacy risk than it seems, because it’s not just Microsoft that might be using that data.
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City of Framingham (via Facebook): 📢 Stay Connected with the City of Framingham! Did you know you can sign up to receive important City updates by email, text message, or both? The City’s Notify Me system lets you choose the topics you care about, so… [Link] #Framingham
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Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)

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Whoopsie daisy!! Calling this “shadow #AI” lets the platform off way too easy. #Claude still made convos searchable online which is a craaaaazy privacy failure. These ppl want to automate the world & can’t even manage to keep your shared personal chats off #Google 🤡 cybermagazine.com/news/anthrop...
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A Californian City Declares State Of Emergency Following Cyberattack On Emergency Systems https://t.co/JWdAsWDPB1

— The Right News, Right Now. (@BradPorcellato)
Aug 10, 2026

August 9, 2026 at 07:21PM

via Twitter https://twitter.com/BradPorcellato
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everyone acting surprised a sandbox got popped.

its entire purpose is to be a target.

this was always gonna happen lol.
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Cases of #AI escaping the #lab, infiltrating other companies and trying to deceive people have all made headlines in recent weeks. And in one case, AI models even worked together to break #free from their test #environments.

Does this mean the machines are taking over? Not quite.

cnn.it/4hXSSTh
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Apple and OpenAI are escalating their legal dispute over devices as OpenAI pushes toward a potential IPO with a reported $852B valuation, while competing fiercely with Anthropic.

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#Anthropic is making #automode the #default setting for #ClaudeCode in most plans starting #August14th. They claim auto mode mitigates risks like prompt injection and data exfiltration, outperforming human reviewers. However, concerns remain about potential vulnerabilities, such as malicious…
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Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)

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so the ai agent meant to help you can get hijacked with zero clicks.

we basically bolted a RAT into our own browsers and called it innovation. lol
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*Well, since the AIs are the felons, victim companies will likely have to "develop novel legal arguments"

*Better hope they don't pick on the poor, the sick and the weak in particular

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1,200+ employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and Meta signed an open letter this week asking government to build mechanisms to slow AI development if it starts outpacing our ability to understand it. The people building it are asking for brakes. Thoughts?

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Week in review: Cisco fixes IMC bug, Patch Tuesday forecast, Black Hat USA 2026

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you In this interview with Help Net Securit…
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These Apple products are likely getting more expensive next month
これらのアップル製品はおそらく来月より高価になるでしょう
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A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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Airplane mode reduces phone charging time by 4–11 minutes, not the claimed 25%, because it disables cellular, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS radios.
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The Pixel's foundations have started to erode, and Google needs to pay attention
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Apple lawsuit against OpenAI says iCloud mess didn’t play a role
OpenAIに対するAppleの訴訟は、iCloudの混乱は役割を果たしていないと述べています
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PSA: If you haven't moved to another search engine yet, tenbluelinks.org will help you get rid of the generated clutter on Google.
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Google is rolling out an update to Gemini Notebook that will add a new "Add a source to Gemini Notebook" step.
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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals just launched Discovery Loop to automate the full scientific research cycle. These are the minds behind TensorFlow, Gemini, and AlphaFold. This one is worth watching. https://discoveryloop.com
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“At OpenAI and Anthropic, for instance, sprints can stretch on for many weeks and top 90 hours of work in a seven-day period, tech workers that the BBC spoke to for this story said.”

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