After Noel Pichardo called out his city’s embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. I…
Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. “I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in…
A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. Th…
OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibili…
The French tax agency says an attacker took data belonging to 678,000 individuals and businesses. The intrusions happened in June and July. The agency did not establish that anything had left its systems until the attacker said so in August. The Direct…
Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.
Russia’s websites lost their trusted certificates, and the fix Moscow is offering asks users to install a state root that can vouch for any site on the internet.
In a new attack, Akira disables EDR tools, but kills the encryptor, as well, as researchers still warn of a worrying practice.
Apple patched a critical-severity flaw in Screen Sharing which allowed crooks unabated access to vulnerable devices.