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A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

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This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. Politico first reported its text. […]

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Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup

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Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led the round and both took board seats. The company plans to secure US government contracts for AI-driven offensive and defensive cyber operations against adversaries including […]

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Google now lets you sign in to your account with a selfie video

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Everyone has lost access to something. A phone, a password, a recovery code sent to a dead email. Google’s answer, announced on Thursday, is your face. The company is adding a selfie video as a way to sign in, it said in a blog post. Setting it up takes a short online process with a […]

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Meta hires Assaf Keren from Qualtrics and PayPal as its new chief information security officer

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Meta has hired Assaf Keren as its next chief information security officer, filling a vacancy created when Guy Rosen announced his departure in June after 13 years at the company. Keren joins this week from software platform Qualtrics, where he spent two years as chief security officer, and previously held the same title at PayPal. […]

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Cisco’s tiny open-weight AI hunts bugs, and it says it beats Gemini and GPT

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Cisco’s new Antares models are small enough to run on your own machines. And, it claims, they beat Google’s Gemini and rival GPT-class systems at finding bugs. It is releasing them open-weight, though it is vetting who gets access. The pitch from Cisco is a quiet rebuke to the frontier-model arms race. You do not […]

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The ex-Meta VP behind a notorious spy tool just raised $180M for AI security

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The founder now asking enterprises to trust AI with their laptops once built one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious surveillance tools. Roi Tiger co-created Onavo, the app Meta turned into a scheme to spy on its rivals. His new company, Glow, wants to do something close to the opposite. Glow has emerged from stealth with […]

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Jack Dorsey’s Block takes on Slack with Buzz, a workspace for humans and AI agents

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Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable identity. Block, the Dorsey-led fintech behind Square and Cash App, […]

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Meta’s AI is deleting accounts, and the only way to appeal is more AI

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Camille Hanson woke one night in March to a notification: Meta had flagged her Facebook and Instagram accounts for deletion. She and her husband ran an English-teaching business there with nearly a million followers. Meta said she had breached its rules on fraud and deception, the New York Times reported. She appealed. A week later […]

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Hackers stole Estée Lauder staff’s bank and health data. The company took nearly a year to say so.

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The cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying staff of a data breach after hackers slipped into the Oracle software it uses to run human resources. BleepingComputer first reported the disclosure. Nearly a year in the dark The timeline is the uncomfortable part. According to the company’s notification letter, an intruder reached its Oracle E-Business Suite […]

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Origin Energy investigates potential breach of customer data

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Australia’s largest energy retailer has told the ASX that some customer information may have been accessed without authorisation, though it says card and bank details appear untouched. Origin Energy, Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailer, told the Australian Securities Exchange on 22 July that it is investigating potential unauthorised access to some of its customers’ data. The […]

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