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China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported for The Information that the Cyberspace Administration of China is investigating both companies […]

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Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhipu, put the coding tool’s source code on GitHub the same day. It says it has removed […]

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Dragos closes its NetRise and runZero deals as Accenture takes control

“It’s about whether the lights stay on and the water stays safe when an adversary attacks,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, the CrowdStrike co-founder who is returning to the board of Dragos. The industrial cybersecurity company said on Monday it has closed its acquisitions of NetRise and runZero. The deals completed alongside the close of Accenture’s majority […]

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A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents

The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one reviewed version of its code. That lock is what just broke. Researchers at Air Security published a vulnerability on Thursday that they call Plugin4Shell. It affects the four most widely used AI coding agents. Those are […]

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ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site

On the night of Friday, September 18, the Tor leak site that the Cl0p ransomware gang used to name and pressure its victims was defaced. Another criminal group claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer. When people visited the site, they saw Pokémon artwork, an ASCII Umbreon, above the message “THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERS” […]

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Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.

A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South China Morning Post. The archive […]

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Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended regulation, and said the industry’s safety shift is responsible rather than self-interested. He spoke the same day four consumers filed an antitrust complaint alleging the pacing push is exactly that. Mark Zuckerberg declined to join the coordination […]

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We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution

Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that can watch processors execute instructions. The […]

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Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s […]

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Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.

Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by […]

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