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  1. The Next Web

    UK employers are the most wary of AI in hiring, recruiter’s survey suggests

    More than half of UK employers in a new survey by recruitment firm Morgan McKinley said they do not use AI to hire, compared with 36% across all seven markets polled. That makes the UK the most cautious in the group, though its figure rests on a small number of companies. In the third quarter […]...

  2. Help Net Security

    Cloudflare’s EmDash 1.0 makes sandboxed plugins ask for access first

    Cloudflare released EmDash 1.0, a free, open source content management system that locks each sandboxed plugin in its own isolated runtime. A plugin starts with access to its own private storage. It cannot reach the site’s content, media, users, secrets, environment, filesystem, or network until it...

  3. NY Times

    College Students Flex Their Power in A.I. Investment Frenzy

    Dorm Room Fund, a program that lets college students invest in their peers, raised a new $50 million fund as the competition for young founders ramps up.

  4. Washington Post

    Trump is selling an AI ‘golden age’ as fears about perils spiral

    After rogue AI agents probed agency websites, Washington’s concerns are at a peak, but the White House has focused on the technology’s promise.

  5. CTO Magazine

    Google Gemini Hack: What Does it Reveal About AI Security?

    AI autonomy is growing; so are the risks. Google Gemini hack is a reminder that smarter AI needs stronger guardrails. Artificial intelligence is becoming better at taking action, not just answering questions. But that growing ability is also creating a new challenge: what happens when an AI agent...

  6. The Hacker News

    Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation

    Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters," the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en...

  7. Help Net Security

    Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike

    Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and office work. The company says it responds more than 30% faster than its predecessor and uses fewer tokens to complete many tasks, reducing the cost per task without changing its listed API price. The model is available with zero...

  8. The Next Web

    France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget

    France wants the billions of euros Google has paid in EU fines to lower what member states pay into the bloc’s budget. Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs, made the case in an interview with the TV channel Franceinfo on Tuesday, Reuters reported. “This is a new revenue...

  9. The Next Web

    OpenAI cancels October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after failed safety tests

    OpenAI has called off the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed to meet its own safety and alignment standards in testing. The Wall Street Journal broke the news on Monday, and OpenAI later confirmed the decision to Reuters. The model was meant to follow GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI...

  10. The Next Web

    Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals

    Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with other search engines, Reuters reported. It filed both cases at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Monday. In July, the European Commission issued orders...

  11. The Next Web

    Anthropic founders to keep 50.1% of votes after IPO through Founder LLC

    Anthropic’s seven co-founders will hold 50.1% of the company’s voting power after it lists. They will do so through a new entity called the Founder LLC, according to a draft IPO filing reviewed by Reuters. The setup is meant to let them put the company’s mission ahead of market pressure. Still, the...

  12. The Next Web

    Marble raises €6.5M Series A led by Smartfin for its open-source fraud and AML platform

    The Paris-based company Marble, which develops open-source software for fraud detection and anti-money laundering compliance, raised €6.5 million in its Series A round, with Smartfin as the lead investor. This brings the total funding to €9 million, with ADNEXUS as a new investor, while existing...

  13. The Next Web

    Meta signs deal for Firmus AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia

    Meta has signed deals to rent AI chips at data centers in Southeast Asia run by Firmus, an Australian company that builds them, the two companies announced. Meta has reserved a certain amount of capacity and can add more if needed. Also, the company plans to use the chips to research, build, and...

  14. Help Net Security

    GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities

    GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them to find and report more than 20 vulnerabilities in Android apps. Two of the disclosed bugs show what’s at stake. In OsmAnd, a...

  15. Security Week

    Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’

    Apple has released iOS and macOS updates to patch the zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-86950. The post Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  16. The Hacker News

    Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials

    A malicious MCP server could trick an application built on the official MCP Python SDK into handing over the OAuth credentials it uses to log in to a real service, the SDK's maintainers said in a security advisory. Affected versions sent the client secret, the authorization code, and the PKCE proof...

  17. The Hacker News

    OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions

    OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move "marks a rare case of a...

  18. Help Net Security

    A four-week plan to tackle vendor concentration risk

    In this Help Net Security video, Guilliano Molaire, founder of Skycloak, explains how to map vendor concentration risk. A company may pay 30 vendors and think its tools are spread out, but many of those vendors run on the same few providers underneath, such as one cloud, one identity provider, one...

  19. Wired

    NordVPN Coupons: 75% Off, Plus 3 Months Free in October 2026

    Save up to 77% on 2-year plans and get 3 free months with our NordVPN discount codes.

  20. The Hacker News

    OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

    OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions. "An agent attempting to complete a search-based training...