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Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican

Today is Claude Fable (and Mythos) 5.1 day. Anthropic say that Fable 5.1 "sets a new standard for coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks". Their announcement spends a notable amount of time on scientific research…

Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet by poisoning the network and diverting into sinkholes

23-year-old botnet down

Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory…

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are…

Weekly Update 519: Breaches & Data Integrity

Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSiteIt does feel like I've bitten off too much and am now chewing like crazy this week. The 3D…

Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console

The cybersecurity giant announced the acquisition alongside quarterly results showing a 34% increase in revenue and strong growth in next-generation security ARR. The post Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console appeared…

Firefox helps iPhone users bypass ads on web sites while making money showing its own ads

Baked-in Firefox ad blocking on iOS begins rolling out slowly today, and is off by default

Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control, asks partners to chip in

Security ... this time it will be different

Codex bundles LibreOffice

I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder called codex-primary-runtime…

Building an Adaptive Agentic Cybersecurity System with NVIDIA Nemotron

AI is changing the pace of cybersecurity. Agentic systems can coordinate work and pursue complex objectives over long horizons. Security teams are beginning to...

Cybersecurity IR Workshop: The workshop you shouldn’t miss

Cyber resilience starts before a crisis. Gain practical insights from DART to strengthen readiness and response. The post Cybersecurity IR Workshop: The workshop you shouldn’t miss appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

GeoJSON Map Viewer

Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council) and found a need to display some GeoJSON files on a map and…

What’s the Scam?

To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscribing addresses other than their own…

Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

Quoting Tarn Adams

They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior, and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress Tags: ai, game-design

How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.

Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials

This is interesting: The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications…

Fake GTA 6 leaked copy drains your crypto wallet

A fake GTA 6 leak is using wallet-draining code to steal cryptocurrency, tokens, and NFTs from eager fans.

Healthcare facilities operator Nutex says patient, employee data stolen in August incident

Cybercriminals breached company data and made an extortion attempt with it, Houston-based Nutex Health said in a filing with federal regulators.

datasette-mcp 0.2

Release: datasette-mcp 0.2 "rows" from execute_sql is now an array of objects. Previously it was an array of arrays. This should help weaker models avoid losing track of which positional array element maps to which column. #1 Now depends…

Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!

Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! Hugo van Kemenade (release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15) announces the final release candidate for Python 3.15, scheduled for release in October: Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed…

65% of Enterprises Have Seen AI Agents Act Out of Scope

EMA survey finds 65% of enterprises have seen AI agents act beyond intended scope

How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.

33-hour BGP hijack of Softaculous traffic prompts security scramble

Hosting software vendor tells customers to reset credentials and hunt for malicious packages

Rockwell Automation ControlLogix, CompactLogix, CompactLogix 5480, GuardLogix, Compact GuardLogix

View CSAF Summary The following versions of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix, CompactLogix, CompactLogix 5480, GuardLogix, Compact GuardLogix are affected: ControlLogix 5580

Rockwell Automation Logix Platform

View CSAF Summary The following versions of Rockwell Automation Logix Platform are affected: ControlLogix 5580

Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT

ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.

Using High-Energy Laser, US Shoots Down Drones Near Mexico Border

The US Army’s laser system is part of a new generation of directed-energy weapons capable of detecting, tracking, and destroying drones with a concentrated beam of light.

Infostealers are hijacking Claude accounts at users’ expense

Anthropic has warned that infostealers are stealing Claude session cookies to access users’ accounts and consume usage at their expense.

Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator

Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links. Part 1 is about…