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FBI to ShinyHunters: ‘We know how to find you’
The FBI’s cyber chief has a message for the criminals that hacked the bureau’s jobs portal last week: “We know how to find you,” so turn yourself in. In a…
Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services
The public still doesn’t know who is abusing a critical Citrix vulnerability exploited as a zero-day weeks before disclosure, but we now know that the unknown digital intruders have used…
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Amid the growing concern about AI models escaping security simulations to hack websites comes word that these “superintelligent” blobs of code have no understanding of privacy or security. Researchers affiliated…
Meta’s ex launches agent rival to Meta’s Muse
Manus’s relationship with Meta It’s complicated. Just months after they called off their merger, they find themselves competing in the market for agentic AI platforms. Awkward! The company has just…
OpenAI pulls the plug on GPT 6.1 Astra as agents keep crossing lines
OpenAI has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model did not meet the company’s safety and alignment standards. GPT-6.1 Astra was being developed…
AMD agrees to buy World Labs to fill out its AI stack
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to buy World Labs, a developer of AI “world models” that incorporate knowledge of the physical world, to extend the AI ecosystem around its…
Apple patches CoreGraphics zero-day already exploited in targeted attacks
Apple has patched a CoreGraphics zero-day after warning that attackers may already have used the bug to compromise a small number of carefully chosen targets. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950,…
OpenAI benches GPT-6.1 Astra for overstepping the mark
OpenAI has killed off the planned release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model got better at doggedly pursuing tasks but worse at knowing when it should stop. The decision means…
What happens when the cloud blows up?
I’ve covered cloud computing for a long time, and one of the most persistent myths I encounter is that public clouds exist above the laws of physics that govern everything…
Why faster AI coding can mean harder engineering
We keep asking whether AI can make developers more productive, but that’s the wrong question. We should instead be asking what happens when it does. All those productivity gains can…