Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react. But the company’s Opus 4.6 model, already superseded by the release of Opus 4.7 on Thursday, is capable of developing functional exploit code. In a blog post on Wednesday,…
When the taxpayers are wondering whose side you are on… Britain’s government faces a public backlash against AI unless it can show ordinary people that they stand to benefit from its push to inject the technology into every area of the UK in the name of growth.… Source link
The IOWN Global Forum will likely focus on datacenter interconnect use cases in the, to help diverse providers of AI infrastructure ply their trade. The Forum develops and promotes Innovative Optical and Wireless Network technology, an effort to replace all wired networks with optical. IOWN’s backers hope to one day bring their tech all the…
Brussels has told Google to open up its search data and give rivals equal footing on its own platforms, sketching out how it expects the tech giant to comply with the bloc’s competition rulebook. In preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission outlined proposed measures that would force Google to hand over…
Two Americans have been jailed for a combined 200 months for helping North Korea generate $5 million through fraudulent IT worker schemes. Kejia “Tony” Wang, 42, and Zhenxing “Danny” Wang, 39, helped North Koreans defy international sanctions and secure tech jobs at more than 100 US companies between 2021 and 2024. Many of these companies…
More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates. The networking giant revealed the mess earlier this week in an advisory that warns “Certain Cisco Access Points (APs)…
North America has some of the world’s most expensive broadband, according to a new study, while Iran has the cheapest. The Global Broadband Price League 2026 compiled by price comparison site Broadband Genie shows that – big surprise – countries with a lower cost of living also tend to have less expensive internet access. Telco…
The team behind in-process OLAP database DuckDB has put forward a solution to the “small changes” problem that they say plagues lakehouse implementations of the kind based on technologies from Databricks, Snowflake, Google, and others. The consulting and support company behind the open source RDBMS has just released the first production-ready iteration of its DuckLake…
Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor it has picked is the same outfit that sparked controversy when Discord tested similar checks. Anthropic quietly updated its support page on identity verification for Claude users this week to indicate that it’s rolling the process out on a…
North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users’ credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft. Redmond’s threat intelligence team tracks the Pyongyang-backed crew as Sapphire Sleet (aka APT38). The Lazarus Group offshoot…