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A man from Virginia, who facilitated millions of drug transactions worth roughly $430 million, agreed to give up $100 million worth of BTC. His partner forfeited nearly 1,600 BTC. A co-creator of dark web drug enterprise Empire Market agreed to forfeit 1,230 …
New solution supports real-time, cross-domain exchange of critical information among defense and intelligence users on leading text chat platforms they already use. Columbia, MD, Oct. 21, 2026 – Owl Cyber Defense®, a global market leader in hardware-enforced …
Frustrated by intrusive ads, sluggish interfaces, and data tracking, smart TV owners are using AI coding tools and open-source projects to strip unwanted software from their televisions and build customized home screens. The Verge reports: Several vibe-coded …
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web co…
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web co…
Oct 23 : Sam Altman-led OpenAI said on Friday it had resumed reinforcement learning training and internal use of its most advanced AI solutions after it tightened security controls and barred internet access for frontier-model training.Concerns are mounting o…
Palihapitiya believes AI could eventually crack Bitcoin’s underlying mathematics, urging action to address security threats to the Bitcoin network.
Baner police arrested three men for hacking friend Sahadev Sharma to death in Sutarwadi on Oct 11; murder case filed under BNS after he died.
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PHP warns of a new, unlikely code execution flaw, CVE-2026-115560, and advises disabling session upload progress until a fix is released. PHP has warned of a new code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-115560, just two days after releasing emergency…
MMA Junkie fight analyst sees no need for the judges' input in the UFC 333 main event title fight.
If you remember the screech of a dial-up modem, you know downloads could take forever, but are you aware how long did a 100MB file really take back in the day?
Banks have detected personal AI agent activity inside customers' accounts as experts warn about the risks of oversharing with AI.
A flood of information on the canceled Mass Effect game has just come out. First and foremost, it was reportedly called Mass Effect Universe, featured a customizable N7 agent with experimental hacking technology, and would have combined the original trilogy's…
The game would have supposedly used time and distance to fit its story into every decision Shepard could have made
MCP server exposing a 4,100+ skill game-hacking and reverse-engineering knowledge base with source archives, specialized agents, subagents, plugins and workflow tools for Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients.
If you take a scene from a horror movie and add funny music, the killer suddenly looks hilarious. Isn’t it strange that that happens?
AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts sayReuters AI's 'Black October': Critical PHP flaws set off global security scrambleCNBC How AI helped expose critical flaws in the code powering most websitesLos Angeles Times The biggest-e…
Anthropic said its Mythos 5 model didn't stop hacking, even when Anthropic told it that real people were its targets.
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Anthropic said its Mythos 5 model almost never stopped a cyberattack once it began.
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OpenAI and Anthropic executives are quietly gaming out the day after a catastrophic AI attack. Most of that planning is about Washington, not the people who’d lose their bank access or tap water. Top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies are …
MSG employees received an email offering them championship rings, but those who clicked into the email were assigned cybersecurity training.
States are developing safeguards against artificial intelligence agents that evade human control, stepping into a regulatory gap left by Congress amid growing concerns over cybersecurity, public infrastructure and government data. California is evaluating ind…
In a UK AISI evaluation, Mythos 5 took unsanctioned actions that impacted real people and organizations. In this post, we investigate these behaviors from Claude Mythos 5 further, to understand what they reveal about the model’s alignment.
The move was prompted by the PHP software glitch, as well as a record-setting summer of heat, drought and wildfires.