The most popular Python project you've probably never heard of has 252,000 GitHub stars and merged over 1,800 pull requests in a single week. It's Hermes, a self-hosted AI agent you program just by talking to it. And it never clocks out. It runs 24/7 on a box…
The Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) electronic filing system was knocked offline following reported hacking attempts, disrupting a key campaign-finance disclosure system just one week before the November 3 midterm elections. A hacker or hackers targeted t…
A new book reveals the extent of his shady dealings in the Middle East.
The burgeoning illicit activity comes as companies pour billions of dollars into efforts to quickly erect data centers that can power AI.
Cross-platform Electron desktop app for running OONI Probe network measurement tests that detect internet censorship, traffic manipulation, and other network interference.
Australia’s cyber agency warns AI will drive more disruptive attacks, helping hackers find vulnerabilities faster and exploit them at greater scale. Australia’s top cyber spy has a blunt message: expect more disruption to everyday services. Abigail Bradshaw, …
Anthropic, the AI startup known for its Claude chatbot and its doomer CEO Dario Amodei, has filed for an IPO that could value the company at up to $2 trillion. The company's IPO filing devotes nearly 100 pages to the dangers its own technology could pose. Inc…
In a rush to force AI on us, policymakers are embracing a technology that is exceptionally good at destroying the things that bring meaning to our lives.
Some prominent tech leaders point to open-weight AI as the future. But the technology is far from perfect, and new dangers are being discovered all the time.
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting revealed the deal following a trip to Warsaw on Tuesday to meet his Polish counterpart, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz.
Make sure you understand how your smart home is set up.
In this essay, I posit that to maintain integrity in mathematical sciences, journals and conferences must urgently adopt a policy of mandating detailed disclosures of AI usage. Academics should also respond by treating AI disclosure as a serious and integral …
Nate Soares, the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), revealed his pessimistic choice to The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson in a recent interview for the latter's The Most Interesting Thing in AI series.Read Entire Article
An AI writes Apple Metal GPU kernels, a judge it can't fool proves them, and the winners run inside a real model: Qwen 2.5 0.5B decode 3% faster with identical output; 75/75 planted bugs caught...
TORONTO — Sangoma Technologies Corporation (TSX: STC; Nasdaq: SANG) (“Sangoma” or the “Company”), a trusted industry leader uniquely offering businesses a choice of on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid Communications as a Service solutions, announced today tha…
Control what enters your software supply chain. An open-source proxy and policy engine for npm, PyPI, Maven, Go, NuGet, Cargo, Composer, and RubyGems. - secmods/depgate
A key threat is the loss of control by AI developers over their creations.
Quest Diagnostics says an unauthorized party accessed patient records through its Quanum portal. The company has not disclosed how many people were affected or what data was exposed.
Scammers have figured out a new, ingenious way to trick Google into displaying fake call center numbers, and travelers are being cheated of thousands of dollars.
FireMon has announced FireMon Agentic AI, changing how enterprises investigate network access, make policy decisions, and prepare security changes. Built into FireMon’s network security management solutions, the new agentic AI capabilities makes agents first-…
Exeon Analytics has introduced Exeon.AgentGuard, a new AI security solution designed to give organizations visibility into approved and shadow AI use, autonomous agent activity and the data flows created through connected tools and external services. Building…
Between late September and early October, an attacker broke into seven South Korean financial institutions and exfiltrated the personal data of about 68,000 people. CrowdStrike traced the campaign to ARTEX, an open-source AI hacking agent built in China and r…
Network security policy management company FireMon LLC today unveiled artificial intelligence agents for its platform designed to handle much of the legwork behind firewall policy changes. The release, called FireMon Agentic AI, is aimed at a workload that gr…
OT Security Still Buys Visibility Seeing every PLC doesn’t stop an unsafe process state. OT programs should fund consequence management next. Full visibility into operational technology is still rare. Where it exists, it doesn’t decide whether a plant stays i…
Software is degrading all around us, for obvious reasons. I've written about this before. All else equal, if you increase your code production by 10x but you don't reduce your error rate by a factor of 10, then your production app is buggier than it used to b…
