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UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in jail for hacking London’s metropolitan transit system.

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Microsoft is rebuilding its security business around AI, and cutting hundreds

Microsoft is the biggest seller of cybersecurity software on the planet. Now it is tearing that business up and rebuilding it around AI. The overhaul means more AI security tools, fewer traditional products, and merged engineering teams. It has already cost several hundred jobs, The Information reported. The driver is fear, and money. Companies are […]

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Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research

One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was ‘squeaky clean,’ while another app was seen sharing users’ health data with an analytics company, underscoring vast differences in user privacy among these apps.

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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world’s most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.

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The UK won’t restrict VPNs after all, and its own research is why

The UK looked set to crack down on VPNs as it tightens the rules for children online. Instead it has backed off, and its own research is the reason why. Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan put it plainly on the BBC. “We decided not to limit VPNs,” he said. A VPN hides a user’s real […]

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Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system

Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its aim is an “identity operating […]

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Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday, and it says AI found the bugs

Microsoft has never shipped a bigger security update. Its July Patch Tuesday fixed a record haul of flaws, and the company says AI is why the count keeps climbing. The scale is hard to ignore. By Microsoft’s own count, the update patched 622 vulnerabilities. That more than tripled June’s tally, which had set a record […]

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Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud

Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking. Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault. Larry Ellison’s company has pulled ahead […]

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OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away

OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways […]

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