The threat actors were “fully evicted” on October 21, but over the course of their time in the system, they obtained and decrypted a “subset” of customer variables, roughly 100,000, or “at most” 1.85% of…
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In the last few days, you may have noticed something new inside Meta’s apps, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp: an artificially intelligent chatbot. Within those apps, you can chat with Meta AI and type in…
Federal inaction could result in states taking action in areas such as AI governance, data center development, energy infrastructure, and environmental regulation, the analysts wrote. AI vendors should “be prepared for increased requests for disclosure…
Google DeepMind researchers used agentic AI to mathematically prove, or “formally verify,” a number of the Signal protocol’s key cryptographic guarantees—a landmark development for the widely used cryptography and AI itself. Conducted as a sort…
A security researcher has found more than 100 serious vulnerabilities in publicly available UK government code, putting sensitive data at risk as a result of poor cyber hygiene. The UK government has defaulted to openly…
In a sign that the tech industry keeps getting weirder, Meta soon plans to release a big update that transforms the Ray-Ban Meta, its camera glasses that shoot videos, into a gadget seen only in…
Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative wing of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that normally takes on transnational crime, estimates it has sent out at least 185,000 administrative subpoenas since the start of the Trump administration, according…
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The marketing hype surrounding AI broadly — and generative AI (genAI) more specifically — is becoming tiresome. You can’t open an article or watch a news video without running into at least a reference to…
Open-weight artificial intelligence models are now almost as capable of hacking into computer networks as the best closed ones, according to new research that heralds a much-anticipated turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. Vals, a…
