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OpenAI Research Model Spent 3rd-Party Test ETH Without Permission to Deploy Smart Contract (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after not having funds on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocurrency from a third-party's wallet without authorization to...
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When Your Ransomware Negotiator Works for the Other Side (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
The shocking arrest of a well-known ransomware negotiator reveals the critical need for vendor program oversight.
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10 Git Commands That Help Engineering Teams to Boost Productivity (opens CTO Magazine in a new tab)
Git commands help developers manage interruptions, troubleshoot regressions, and switch between tasks without losing track of their work. A developer might be halfway through a feature when a production bug requires urgent attention. Meanwhile, a teammate needs help identifying a regression, and an...
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Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes (opens NY Times in a new tab)
“I felt like there were some moments in the film where she was just brazenly lying.”
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When AI Agents Commit Breaches, Humans May Not Be Held Liable (opens Dark Reading in a new tab)
As agents escape containment and access external systems, responsibility remains human. Accountability, however, is much less settled.
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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Review: The First Real AI PC (opens Wired in a new tab)
The Surface Laptop Ultra is a true MacBook Pro competitor for Windows, and Microsoft has never been so close to dethroning Apple—if only it weren't for the lack of battery life.
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Ransomware Gangs Increasingly Turn to Threats of Physical Violence to Extort Payments (opens Infosecurity Magazine in a new tab)
New report warns that threats of violence against employees of organizations hit by ransomware are on the rise as attackers find new ways to guarantee payments
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Hackers disguise phishing as promising business opportunities (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement staff answer every week. Cadence Riddle, a cybersecurity researcher at Fortra, tracked a 12-fold increase in malicious emails...
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Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech, but not enough to avoid a $1.2B fine (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls were lacking. The bank was fined a whopping $1.2 billion for money laundering offences this week, after banking authorities identified a lax attitude to...
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Change saturation is not a communication problem (opens CIO in a new tab)
On a major S/4HANA transformation, the first signs of trouble did not look like resistance. They looked like missed stand-ups. Then deliverables started slipping, readiness checkpoints came back with gaps and the same functional leads kept surfacing on the list of competing priorities. The people...
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Expedia’s AI chief: Models are fungible, data isn’t (opens CIO Dive in a new tab)
Ten months into his role, Xavier Amatriain details why the organization aims to keep flexible with the AI models it deploys — and its tech team.
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BAE Systems Security Incident Stalls Notices From US Bankruptcy Courts (opens Security Week in a new tab)
A cyber incident affecting contractor BAE Systems has knocked out the Bankruptcy Noticing Center, halting notices nationwide for a week. The post BAE Systems Security Incident Stalls Notices From US Bankruptcy Courts appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs (opens CSO Online in a new tab)
The Linux kernel’s networking stack was found vulnerable to a guest-to-host escape attack, in which an attacker operating inside a virtual machine (VM) could cross the isolation boundary and access the underlying host. Dubbed PwnEscape and tracked as CVE-2026-99999, a flaw allowed guest-controlled...
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Scammers clone candidates’ voices to steal cash and voter data ahead of 2026 midterms, FBI warns (opens Help Net Security in a new tab)
Three weeks before Americans vote in the 2026 midterm election, fraudsters are borrowing candidate names, logos and slogans to collect fake donations and harvest personal data, the FBI warned. “The FBI warns the public that scammers could exploit the 2026 US Midterm Election to perpetrate financial...
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AI Decision Models and Their Impact on AI SOC Platforms (opens The Hacker News in a new tab)
In the space of a month, a new category of AI model went from nonexistent to everywhere. TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15 and called it a System One model, a nod to Kahneman's fast, intuitive thinking. OpenAI announced its own Decisions API at DevDay and opened a public beta on October 6...
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Israeli digital ad agency caught serving first in-the-wild zero-click spyware (opens IT Pro in a new tab)
Discover-Tech's zero-click technique, dubbed "AdFection", installed spyware on the phones of targets around the world
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Israeli digital ad agency caught serving first in-the-wild zero-click spyware (opens IT Pro Security in a new tab)
Discover-Tech's zero-click technique, dubbed "AdFection", installed spyware on the phones of targets around the world
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AI-Generated Hot Girls Are Ripping Off Comedians to Boost Their Horny Content (opens Wired in a new tab)
A network of AI-generated models is using comics’ material to funnel views to their OnlyFans and Fanvue accounts—and there’s not much comedians can do about it.
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AWOL Vision Aetherion Max RGB Laser UST Projector Review: A Top Buy (opens Wired in a new tab)
A top performer in both dark rooms and in bright sunshine, the AWOL Vision Aetherion Max RGB Laser UST Projector gives movie theaters a run for their money.
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AI won’t kill jobs. Bad team design will (opens CIO in a new tab)
In a recent finance training session, an FP&A analyst took the prompting method we had covered twenty minutes earlier and applied it to a monthly variance report spanning four business units. The report normally took one and a half to two hours. It was finished in about two minutes, live, in front...
