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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

  • techcrunch.com
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 23:40:52 UTC

Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recent…

Jury Duty Scams Mark Latest Evolution of Impersonation Fraud

  • PYMNTS
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 23:12:10 UTC

Impersonation scammers reportedly have a new target: people afraid of being punished for missing jury duty. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (Aug. 9), these scams have surged in the Tampa area. In just one county, authorities have gotten 44 re…

Why The New GM Needs To “Clean House”

  • Nico
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 23:07:46 UTC

The A’s have won an amazing two in a whole row so spirits are high and hopes higher with the team looking like an actual team for 18 consecutive innings. Realistically, though, David Forst was fired — I mean, mutually parted ways with the team — because of th…

Hackaday Links: August 9, 2026

  • Tom Nardi
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 23:00:40 UTC

Bad news for anyone who was hoping for some relief from the memory shortage — Digitimes is reporting that the production capacity of major players such as Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix has al…

HPE, EigenQ push practical path to post-quantum security

  • Ryan Stevens
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 22:53:41 UTC

As quantum computing advances and regulatory timelines tighten, organizations are under growing pressure to prepare their infrastructure for post-quantum cryptography. Rather than replacing entire technology estates, enterprises are looking to retrofit existi…

Joe Marshall: llambda.lisp on linux

  • Joe Marshall
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 22:33:42 UTC

A reader named Madhu sent me a patch for running llambda.lisp under linux. This patch uses mmap to pull the weights into the lisp address space outside the heap. In addition, he tried to use a hugging face model that needed some default values, so he added…

OpenAI Halts New Model Rollout Due to Security Worries

  • PYMNTS
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 22:17:04 UTC

OpenAI is pausing internal activity related to a new artificial intelligence model due to security concerns. The AI startup announced this decision on its blog Friday (Aug. 7) after an in-house evaluation of its Astra model caused the company to realize it co…

California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack

  • EditorDavid
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 22:15:00 UTC

NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council "declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down computer systems including 911 public safety operations." "Malici…

Senate moves to strengthen Nigeria’s financial system

  • Punch Newspapers
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 20:06:48 UTC

The Nigerian Senate is working to strengthen Nigeria’s financial system through legislative reforms and collaboration with regulators for economic stabilit Read More: https://punchng.com/senate-moves-to-strengthen-nigerias-financial-system/

Unveils Autonomous Security to Accelerate Growth

  • finance.yahoo.com
  • Published date: 2026-08-09 19:39:10 UTC

ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) has quietly built one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity businesses in the industry, and on August 4, it made that ambition explicit. The company rolled out six new Autonomous Security solutions built to catch and fix threats before th…