OpenAI’s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate us…
A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Facebook deceived users about how it protected their data, including in its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Jurors found more than 43 million violations of the state’s consumer protectio…
AI is helping engineering teams ship more code, faster than ever. But that acceleration comes with a growing operational burden. More production incidents to respond to, more security vulnerabilities to remediate, and spiraling token costs to contain. …
Attackers began exploiting a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the fix. The bug, CVE-2026-87902, can let an attacker with no login run code on a website’s server. It only works under certain conditions. WordPress fixed the flaw in version 7.1.2 o…
An attacker used three open-source AI agent frameworks to break into at least 27 companies and steal more than 600,000 credit card records, security company Gambit says. The victims include a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline, a large…
Cybersecurity has had no shortage of new companies and ideas this summer. Behind some of the most interesting developments are founders who have spent years working on the problems they are now trying to solve. Their companies span different parts of t…
Oxford has let OpenAI use old texts from its Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal papers seen by the Guardian. Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo broke the story on Saturday. The papers say texts that OpenAI scanned at the library went…
For years, consumer VPNs were easy to explain: choose a server, create an encrypted tunnel, and route your traffic through it. The product category was built around a fairly simple idea, and the buying criteria followed the same logic, speed, server co…
OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in an incident report on Friday….
The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s 2027 budget request. Ins…