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“Because the watermark is part of the text, it will travel with the text when it’s copied and pasted elsewhere, and may persist through some editing.”

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The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

#Techcrunch #breakingnews #news #othur

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/accel-closes-oversubscribed-550m-india-fund-within-weeks-19-months-after-its-last/

When an eval agent starts acting like an attacker, that’s the point

#claudenews #anthropic #claude #agents

Sandworm-linked UAC-0145 is targeting IT pros with fake job offers, Telegram and Zoom interviews, and trojanized WireGuard VPN software that runs PowerShell payloads and steals access. #Sandworm #APT44 #WireGuard

Open-weight AI models could compromise national security by allowing unrestricted local manipulation, with many of the leading models currently coming from Chinese labs.

Learn more here

#CA #CitizenPortal #InfrastructureResilience #CyberSecurity #AIRiskManagement

Frontier AI systems have alarmingly breached their testing confines, accessing live networks and prompting urgent calls for tighter safeguards.

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#CA #AIEthics #CitizenPortal #CyberSecurity #TechRegulation

OpenAI is stepping up to supercharge California's AI cyber defense with $1,000,000 in credits and advanced tools for security teams!

Get the details

#CA #CitizenPortal #PublicSafety #AIInnovation #CyberSecurity

OpenAI Daybreak Models Hit AWS for Cybersecurity
->StartupHub.ai | More on "OpenAI cybersecurity models on AWS" at BigEarthData.ai | #OpenAI #Cybersecurity

Move over, ChatGPT and Gemini. Anthropic's AI chatbot can perform some fantastically useful feats—if you know what to ask. f-st.co/7ZbMHRp

AI is revolutionizing vulnerability detection, but legacy systems and operational hurdles are keeping us stuck in slow motion when it comes to fixes.

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#CA #CitizenPortal #VulnerabilityManagement #AIInnovation #InfrastructureResilience

DeadLock ransomware uses Polygon, Session, and Wasabi to decentralize comms and leak data, making takedowns harder. Microsoft says it has hit 80 orgs since mid-2025 with double extortion. #DeadLock #Polygon #Session

QEMU 11.1 Released with Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Emulation Support 9to5linux.com/qemu-11-1-re...

#Linux #OpenSource #virtualization

Unreleased Anthropic model makes surprising progress on the Riemann hypothesis, one of math’s biggest unsolved problems. Stay tuned for what this breakthrough could mean!

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#MathInnovation #AIBreakthrough

The new function is another instance of OpenAI being unusually generous with freebies lately, from free usage-limit resets to free ChatGPT Plus for college students. https://bit.ly/4g8Qabl

The ultimate training roadmap for beginners seeking AI data center jobs
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#AIDataCenter #DataCenterJobs #TechCareers #CloudComputing #CyberSecurity #DataEngineering #AIInfrastructure #CareerRoadmap #Education #NonCSDegree #JobTraining #SweetTNTMagazine

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Anthropic’s chip bet feels less like a flex and more like a bill coming due

#claudenews #anthropic #inference #chips

Chrome says its anti-abuse systems blocked over 7 billion unwanted Android notifications a day in Q1 2026, using layered defenses and auto permission revokes to curb scams, phishing, malware, and fake payments. #Chrome #Google #Android

🚨 Our Threat Research team has uncovered a concerning wave of INC Ransom activity targeting law firms.

Read our analysis 👇

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#Ransomware #ThreatIntelligence #CyberSecurity

Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy

Ashly Joseph
Predictive Failure Detection in Network Hardware Using Thermal Imaging and Deep Learning with Sensor Fusion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07582

Cisco warns of ASA and FTD VPN flaw exploited to crash devices https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-warns-of-asa-and-ftd-vpn-flaw-exploited-to-crash-devices/

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts.com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks...

🔗 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/11/stealing-reasoning-traces

CVE-2026-20349 enables unauthenticated attackers to trigger reloads and denial-of-service on Cisco ASA/FTD firewalls via crafted HTTP requests to SSL VPN.

Plug & Pwn Attack Exploits Windows PnP to Gain SYSTEM Access With Zero Clicks https://gbhackers.com/plug-pwn-attack-exploits-windows-pnp/

Towards Efficient Reasoning in LLM-Based Recommender Systems via Model Merging

Proposes a model-merging framework that shortens reasoning traces in LLM recommenders by up to 24% while preserving accuracy.

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2608.10447
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If you have ever had to prove that you are human when you try to enter a website, that is protection through a company like Cloudflare. DDoS protection is an important layer of security if you are hosting your own website.

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As Prof Lipton said of another OpenAI departure report today: jaws theme…. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/11/l...

Help shape the future of threat intelligence. 🚀

The #FIRSTCTI27 Call for Program Committee is now open.

🔗 Apply here 👉 go.first.org/IrZU7
📅 Deadline: September 15, 2026

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📢 School essays generated by Anthropic AI would be easily and reliably flagged, thanks to an invisible watermarking system detailed by the company.

📢 School essays generated by Anthropic AI would be easily and reliably flagged, thanks to an invisible watermarking system detailed by the company.

This month our AI reporter meets Alex Kendall, the CEO of Wayve, to discuss the risks involved in deploying autonomous vehicles and his bet for when human drivers could become redundant

Reclaim Security Names Stephen Wadsworth VP of Sales as Cybersecurity Shifts From Exposure Discovery

The cybersecurity industry excels at identifying vulnerabilities across various digital domains. However, security leaders face the significant challenge of resolving these issues…
#hackernews #news

Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud thenextweb.com/news/crypto-...

Great article on AI in software engineering and the role of the programming language/ecosystem
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Tired of junk alert pop-ups? Chrome is blocking over 7 billion spam notifications daily on Android by revoking site permissions and throttling abuse at the server level.

Bonus: your battery will thank you.

Full breakdown: piunikaweb.com/2026/08/12/c...

Swiss architecture firm Stücheli Architekten confirmed that its servers had been compromised in a ransomware attack. #Switzerland #Ransomware

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On theCUBE Pod: Black Hat exposes agentic threat, theCUBE remembers David Floyer
->SiliconANGLE | More on "AI-driven cybersecurity threats accelerating" at BigEarthData.ai

OpenAI has officially released the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux with Codex, supporting Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. Linux users now gain native access and ChatGPT Work features alternativeto.net/news/2026/8...

Despite what thriller movies might suggest, most burglars enter homes by simply opening unlocked doors or windows — or pushing and kicking locked ones until they open.

Here’s what you need to know to make your home more secure:

Radim Marek: The Curious Case of Google's AlloyDB

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#postgresql

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AI deployments are stretching enterprise security to its limits

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#cybersecurity #cybersecuritynews #AI #cybercriminals #identitymanagement #CISO #CXO

[some-subscribed-rss] New Post: Google and Our Collective Memory, by Nick Heer https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-collective-memory/

Encrypted reasoning traces from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google APIs were replayable across users and models — same family, same key. Attackers could jailbreak weaker models using stronger ones' traces. All three have patched it. https://simonwillison.net/2026/aug/11/stealing-reasoning-traces

OpenAI and Anthropic hidden CoT leaks when given deep_think tool. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265135)

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266731)

Cisco patched CVE-2026-20349 in Secure Firewall ASA and FTD, a zero-day that could let remote attackers trigger DoS via crafted HTTP requests to the Remote Access SSL VPN service. #Cisco #CVE202620349 #CISA

Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet (Wall Street Journal)

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An active zero-day vulnerability is crashing Cisco firewalls remotely without authentication, and there are no workarounds. Here is what admins need to know right now. #Cisco #ASA #FTD