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US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs and solar inverters, citing national security risks
The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs and power converters, citing an “unacceptable” threat to national security. The move…
Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, as well as a new cyber security agency system
Microsoft on Monday unveiled its first cybersecurity-focused model along with a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, dealing a major blow…
Over the past few decades, a number of mysterious hackers have captured the public imagination, but none quite like Phineas Fisher. A decade after their most…
Hugging Face confirms breach of internal datasets and credentials, prompts users to take action
Hugging Face, a platform that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets, said its internal datasets and service credentials were compromised in a hack last week. The…
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a passcode ‘forcibly’ during border search
The US Department of Justice is prosecuting an American man for allegedly providing US border authorities with a password that wiped the contents of his phone,…
For months, the AI giants have devised specially vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limits…
The US government says hackers linked to Iran are disrupting US water and energy providers
The US government is warning that state-sponsored Iranian hackers are actively breaking into and disrupting industrial control systems at US water and energy providers. This new…
On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI data platform Hugging Face in a…
Hackers steal ‘significant’ amount of data from tech company that thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies rely on
UK-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware is responding to a cyberattack in which hackers stole a “significant amount” of customer data from its systems, the company…
Hackers are exploiting newly patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk
Hackers are breaking into websites running vulnerable versions of the popular blogging software WordPress, according to several cybersecurity firms. One estimate puts the number of vulnerable…