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Oct 29, 2026Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier AI model that, according to the company, beats rival models on benchmarks for detecting, exploiting and patching vulnerabilities. The model is not broadly available yet. This week, Google is ...
Oct 29, 2026Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI's Codex, Microsoft's VS Code and Anthropic's Claude Desktop. In all five, a web page or a local file reached the computer behind the...
Oct 29, 2026Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found. The researchers have been tracking the campaign, dubbed Yoba, for the past t...
Oct 29, 2026The company's new frontier model tops Claude Opus 5.5 in several key benchmarks. OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier models have been trading blows of late, with each claiming bragging rights in different categories. Now, Google has barged in with its l...
Oct 29, 2026"EA executives cannot fail, only be failed." EA took the axe to BioWare last week after a long, slow death partially born of mandates to either work on live service games that didn't work (Anthem) or pivot from live service games in messy, chaotic d...
Oct 29, 2026'It's like stealing pure gold bars.' AI data centers are springing up across the US at an unprecedented rate, and with them comes a number of problems. Aside from the noise, disruption, and environmental concerns, the vast infrastructure projects al...
Oct 29, 2026AI continues to be big business, and the impetus behind big crime. Malaysian customs have shared this week that $12.11 million worth of AI chips were discovered during an inspection. A total of 30 server units, each featuring cutting edge AI chips, ...
Oct 29, 2026Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through we...
Oct 29, 202626,400 credentials that developers left in public code on Gitee, a Chinese code-hosting service, still worked when a researcher tested them. Anyone who copied one from that code could have used it. Independent researcher Ben Zimmermann found them by...
Oct 29, 2026AI is beginning to take over much of the work that has traditionally defined the security analyst's job. Investigating alerts, collecting evidence, correlating activity across tools, and executing response actions are becoming tasks that AI systems c...
Oct 29, 2026The enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with key security features turned off. A mysterious relay service is installing ...
Oct 29, 2026Linköping University professor Peter Jonsson is set to have his work presented in two weeks' time at one of the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science. As of Monday, much of that work is "dead," he says, after AI showed that a 2...