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Apple issues high-confidence alerts to users targeted by mercenary spyware and provides immediate steps and guidance to protect devices and data.

A prolific hacking group known for exploiting software vulnerabilities to attack multiple targets simultaneously claimed it had stolen large volumes of data from nearly 50 companies worldwide, including Philips, Shell, Fiserv, and GE.
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Apple has confirmed that it has sent out a new wave of notifications alerting an unspecified number of users in 110 countries that they may have been targeted by “a mercenary spyware attack.”

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OpenAI's Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion Just Months After Doubling
->Startup Fortune | More on "OpenAI's rapid revenue growth trajectory" at BigEarthData.ai | #OpenAI

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Cl0p Hacking Group Claims Data Theft From Shell, Philips, GE and Fiserv https://t.co/sjSv2XVykq

— The Right News, Right Now. (@BradPorcellato)
Aug 14, 2026

August 13, 2026 at 10:56PM

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🛡️ Preparing for Broadcom 250-622?

The biggest readiness pitfall may be studying theory without practicing real-world scenarios.

📖 www.certfun.com/blog/broadco...

#250_622Exam #Broadcom #Symantec #CloudSWG #CyberSecurity #CloudSecurity #NetworkSecurity #ThreatProtection #ITCertification

New infosec products of the week: August 14, 2026

📖 Read more: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/14/n...

#cybersecurity #cyebrsecuritynews @a10networks.bsky.social

“According to the FT‘s sources, Bakalar was the only remaining dedicated ethicist at the company”

😶‍🌫️

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Anthropic to watermark Claude-generated content under EU AI Act

Anthropic will now add machine-readable marks to content generated by its Claude AI models, including embedded watermarks in text, to help identify content that has been generated or processed by Claude. The update is part of the…

#Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/g...

Operations Evolve, Security Follows: Why Agentic AI Is Forcing The Next Evolution of Cybersecurity

Agentic AI is changing cybersecurity as attackers deploy autonomous systems and enterprises deploy AI agents that can act independently.
#hackernews #news

OpenAI is giving ChatGPT and Codex a new way to learn from and remember how you use your Mac, even...

Researchers say it took fewer than 20 prompts for a public AI tool to find a flaw (now fixed) allowing anyone on a Zoom call to hijack another..... Read more

The tool compromised at least 85 government accounts and extracted more than 2,500 personnel records, then widened its reach to Taiwan's nuclear safety agency and at least seven energy companies

united24media.com/world/resear...

Marjan Moodi, Xuankang Zhu, Fernando De Mesentier Silva, Harold Chaput, Mohammad Reza Taesiri: AutoWorldModel-Bench: A State-Centric Benchmark for Automated World-Model Research https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11216 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11216

Qiyang Chen, Yixi Li, Fengwei Zhang, Junlin Liu: ATOBench: Tracing How Autonomous Penetration-Testing Agents Verify Vulnerabilities When Target Evidence Lies https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12996 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12996 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12996

Atul Kabra, Prakhar Paliwal, Manjesh K. Hanawal: Operationalizing Cyber Threat Intelligence with GraphRAG https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13050 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13050

Sofia Bobadilla, Humaira Afrin, Angela Novelli, Martin Monperrus: Smart Contract Invariants Protect Against Cybercriminals https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13191 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13191

Bai, Qiu, Guo, Huang, Mok, Yu, Zhang, Wang: HounsWorld: A Multimodal World Model for Hidden Patient-State Readout, Reconstruction, and Simulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12904 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12904 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12904

Team, Chen, Chu, Li, Li, Shi, Tang, Tang, Wang, Zhang: DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13489 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13489

Ziqi Zhao, Jialin Lu, Junjie Shan, Junyuan Zhang, Shuya Yang, Ka-Ho Chow: Understanding Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Vertical Federated Learning: The Gap Between Research and Practice https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12962 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12962 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12962

Jakub Pele\v{s}ka, Gustav \v{S}\'ir: Incremental Evaluation and Training in Relational Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13023 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13023

The problem is not AI, it’s the AI user

As AI cannot predict weather then
how can AI predict climate or war ?

You forgot how AI was born:
AI was created to establish surveillance and prevent a 9/11 like attacks. So AI was born as a hard coded crippel

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Shuzhe Zhang, Xin Zhu, Yinling Qian, Qiong Wang: S2-HWM: Sparse Event-Structured Hierarchical World Model for Long-Horizon Surgical Robot Manipulation https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13103 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13103 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13103

AI agents tried to sabotage and disable each other when given the same task, Anthropic said (Business Insider)

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side With Them #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy www.404media.co/pers...

Anthropic Said in Talks to Buy Startup Decart for $6 Billion finance.yahoo.com/technology/a... via @instapaper.com

Don’t learn Rust 🦀 to write code faster.

Learn Rust so you can make better engineering decisions when AI writes the code.

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots | Google https://ow.ly/MNLq50ZvFUs

AWS is embedding its security tools into rival AI models' coding environments—a calculated bet that owning the security layer…

https://venturebeat.com/security/aws-continuum-integrates-with-openai-codex-and-anthropic-claude-code-in-major-ai-security-push

#CTO #techleadership

WatchGuard FireCloud review: When VPNs are not enough www.itpro.com/software/vpn...

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This Ponzi scheme spends $3 for every $1 in revenues
So, the cash burn rate is now $20 billion a quarter = $80 billion/yr
Which means they'll be out of cash in a year
= why a dozen executives have left
= Why AI stocks will crash
= Why the Stock market crashes

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FireCloud provides VPN-free SASE remote access with FWaaS, SWG, ZTNA, endpoint anti-malware, and cloud-managed security via nearby PoPs.

You’re Back In The Room (Citrix NetScaler Pre-Auth RCE CVE-2026-8452(?)) - watchTowr Labs

🚀 GitHub Intelligence Drop

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Chinese Censorship Is Leaking Into Answers From American AI—ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini unwittingly respond like China’s censored chatbots when asked some sensitive questions

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin...

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push ift.tt/3Cl1MKv

Spyware is being used across Europe to secretly hack phones and monitor people who speak out. Public money still funds this industry. We need to stop it before it spreads further: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...

Gemini 3.7 Flash is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot.
It sharpens web and app development and agentic tasks inside the editor.

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-13-gemini-3-7-flash-is-now-available-in-github-copilot
Price: 4

AI is involved in 55% of cybercrime across Africa, but only 8% of intelligence analysts have advanced skills to fight it

🌍 #OmniGaza #AfricanIntel

Anthropic needs to bring in Amazon-style earnings to justify its $2 trillion valuation—but it’s barely turned a profit https://t.co/aM0Datq9bS

— The Right News, Right Now. (@BradPorcellato)
Aug 14, 2026

August 14, 2026 at 12:29AM

via Twitter https://twitter.com/BradPorcellato

Gemini 3.7 Flash https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/ (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289112)