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Cybersecurity & Privacy
Breaches, exploits, surveillance and the privacy trade-offs buried in the software you already use.
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Researchers made contact with a mysterious AI agent network
The reply took about an hour, and it came back in Chinese. A New York Times journalist had sent a message to a network of autonomous AI agents…
Small AI models may self-replicate by late 2026, Anthropic says
The worry about AI copying itself across the internet has mostly lived in thought experiments. Anthropic has now put a rough date on it. The company said small…
‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’ as Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
For 25 years, cryptographers chased the origin of a handful of numbers the NSA handed to the U.S. government. An Anthropic research model traced them in less than…
OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden recording device
Someone hid a recording device in toilet paper, plugged it into a USB port behind a TV in an OpenAI executive conference room and left it there. Two…
XRP Holds Local Bottom as Crypto’s Largest Near-Miss Hack Comes to Light
A bug that could have minted 18 trillion XRP in a single transaction sat in the XRP Ledger’s code for a decade. When the details went public on…
What is the 3-2-1 rule for backing up your data, exactly?
One copy of your files on one drive is a single point of failure. And sooner or later, single points of failure fail. Odds are you’ve built up…
Anthropic rolls out a free AI scanner for open-source projects
Anthropic is sending AI-written vulnerability reports to open-source maintainers, and no human will check them first. The company expects the reports to be more than 90 percent accurate.…XRP Ledger patched a decade-old bug that could have minted billions of XRP from nothing
Discord stops new installations of a popular bot
One forgotten server was all it took. On Oct. 4, a hacker got into the systems behind Double Counter, a security bot used in more than 600,000 Discord…
