Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it
Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it

In short: Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it h…

Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos
Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos

In short: A former Meta engineer in London is under criminal investigation after allegedly building a program to extract around 30,000 private Facebook photos while bypassing the platform’s security checks, the latest in a series of privacy and securit…

Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal
Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal

In short: Uber has expanded its AWS contract to run real-time ride-matching infrastructure on Amazon’s Graviton4 processor and is piloting AI model training on Trainium3, joining Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple on a customer list that is becoming the clea…

Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security
Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security

In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic escalation that would reduce the country’s primary civilian…

Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos
Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos

In short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a six-month campaign to weave AI into every layer of Ma…

Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal
Netflix owes Italian subscribers up to €500 after court rules its price hikes were illegal

In short: The Court of Rome has ruled that Netflix’s repeated price increases between 2017 and 2024 violated Italian consumer law and EU Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms. The ruling voids the relevant contract clauses, orders current prices…

LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told
LinkedIn is secretly scanning your browser for 6,000 extensions, and you weren’t told

In short: Every time you visit LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, a hidden JavaScript routine silently probes your browser for more than 6,000 installed extensions, collects 48 hardware and software characteristics about your device, encrypts the resu…

Microsoft calls Copilot ‘entertainment only’ while charging $30 a month for it
Microsoft calls Copilot ‘entertainment only’ while charging $30 a month for it

In short: Microsoft has spent billions building Copilot into every corner of its product lineup, pitching it as an indispensable AI co-worker. Its own Terms of Use tell a different story. A clause quietly buried in the document labels Copilot “for ente…

Anthropic cuts Claude subscribers off from OpenClaw in cost crackdown
Anthropic cuts Claude subscribers off from OpenClaw in cost crackdown

In short: Anthropic has blocked Claude Pro and Max subscribers from using their flat-rate plans with third-party AI agent frameworks, starting with OpenClaw. The move, which took effect on 4 April 2026, shifts the cost of running autonomous agents onto…

Keeper Security brings zero-trust database access to its PAM platform with KeeperDB
Keeper Security brings zero-trust database access to its PAM platform with KeeperDB

Database credentials remain one of the most common attack vectors in enterprise breaches, yet most organisations still manage them through shared spreadsheets, hardcoded connection strings, or standalone credential vaults with no session oversight. Kee…