California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.

MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies
MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies

MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projec…

Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits
Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 nearly matches Mythos at cyber exploits

GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese lab Zhipu AI, can build working cyber exploits on its own almost as well as Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic said on Tuesday. Its safeguards can be bypassed with simple techniques in up to 100% of tests. A…

Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says
Suspected Chinese hackers posed as US AI insiders, Proofpoint says

A group of hackers believed to have been acting on behalf of China pretended to be well-known American AI experts to obtain the email accounts of people who specialize in AI policy. According to Reuters, the security firm Proofpoint released the findin…

The Secrets of the US Spyware King

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.

AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive
AI agents made failed hacking attempts on Canada’s national archive

On 28 May and again on 9 June, AI agents carried out several simple hacking attempts against a search tool operated by Library and Archives Canada. Transluce, a nonprofit AI research laboratory, states that none of these attempts appeared to be success…

Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A small group of cybersecurity defenders gets it first. Paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next, Google said on Wedn…