Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear weapon. According to Anthropic, it…
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What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet
A massive cloud outage stemming from Amazon Web Services’s key US-EAST-1 region, its hub near the United States capitol in northern Virginia, caused widespread disruptions…
Hackers Dox ICE, DHS, DOJ, and FBI Officials
In a stunning new study, researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed this week that satellites are leaking a wealth of…
Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of Networks
Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group…
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure
The news last week that Dominion Voting Systems was purchased by the founder and CEO of Knowink, a Missouri-based maker of electronic poll books, has…
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
“If you don’t include people with disabilities or people with facial differences in the development of these processes, no one’s going to think of these…
A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones
Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds.…
Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire
“Chen Zhi was directly involved in managing the scam compounds and maintained records associated with each one, including records tracking profits from the scams that…
3 Best VPN for iPhone (2025), Tested and Reviewed
Other iPhone VPNs We Tested Surfshark: Surfshark was a strong contender for the main list. Even its Starter plan comes with extra features like a…
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
That suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own collection of sensitive information. After all, the…
‘Happy Gilmore’ Producer Buys Spyware Maker NSO Group
Research published this week indicates that North Korean scammers are trying to trick US companies into hiring them for architectural design work, using fake profiles,…
North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now
“The plans are being used and being built,” says Michael “Barni” Barnhart, a leading authority in North Korean hacking and cyber threats, who works for…