Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Mousso
TIL: Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall > Custom rules > Managed Challenge" these days) to prevent crawlers from aggresively spidering my faceted search engine on this site, but
But continued Israeli strikes on Lebanon could derail the agreement before it takes effect.
Getting Iran to concede on key issues will be a struggle.
The president will feel criticisms from this group most keenly.
It’s complicated but not this month, most likely.
Release: datasette-agent 0.3a0 New tool, execute_write_sql , which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user approval in datasette agent 0.2a0 . The new execute_write_sq
Key issues, like Iran’s nuclear program, remain unresolved.
Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios piece, which is the best collection of behind-the-scenes gossip I've seen abo
OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.
The US vice-president says the agreement is "about a page and a half" and "very general", meaning many details will be worked out later.
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export contro
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Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they’re still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents.
The claims also prompted a response from UK media regulator Ofcom, who called them "deeply concerning".
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has seized the CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com websites, which allegedly hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in what appears to be the first publicly announced domain seizure unde
In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale.
Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is
Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer. The closure comes as "several" Xbox studios at Micr
Swap out your creaky old box fan for a new model that lights up, mists, or even follows you around the room.
A vulnerability in the SimpleHelp remote management software allows unauthenticated attackers to create privileged technician accounts on servers using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication protocol. [...]
Fox is about to take over the TVs in more than 100 million homes worldwide. On Monday, Fox announced that it's acquiring Roku, the streaming middleman that serves as a portal for viewers to hop into services like Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, and more. The $22 b
Don’t be fooled by the compact size of this soundbar. It’s a solid option for smaller TVs or spaces without having to sacrifice sound quality.
If your electricity bill climbs every summer, a smart thermostat could help keep cooling costs in check. The Amazon Smart Thermostat is an excellent option for its price, especially today. It's down to just $57.99 at Amazon as a part of Amazon’s early Prime Da
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from San Francisco, I walked through an unmanned immigration checkp
Mark Carney says Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise office hasn’t been ‘effective’ since its 2019 setup Canada is eliminating a watchdog that investigates alleged human rights violations committed by Canadian companies operating abroad, after Mar
Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.
AMD's stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.
WordPress plugins OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage have been compromised in a supply-chain attack impacting Awesome Motive-s content distribution network (CDN). [...]
Ibrahim helped define a genre of South African jazz music in a career that spanned eight decades.
Instructors hurled Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas into 40-metre abyss without attaching safety equipment A 21-year-old woman who died when two rope-jumping instructors threw her from a bridge without first harnessing her to security equipment has been buri
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering in
Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, that was exploited in attacks to escalate to root privileges. [...]
The accomplished musician, who recorded over 70 albums in his career, died peacefully in Germany after a short illness The South African jazz composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has died at the age of 91. His family announced his death in a statement release
The Council of Europe, the continent's oldest intergovernmental body, is probing claims of a data breach made by the ShinyHunters extortion group over the weekend. [...]
Some victims said they chose not to speak out because they feared staff would cut off access to aid.
Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost three years. Harrell, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is paralyzed, first used his brain-computer interface (BCI) to “speak” sentences with the help of a research team i
Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Operating since 2019 on a repurposed former…
Outpouring of public grief for Lidia ‘Taty’ Almeida, leader of group of mothers that has marched every week since 1977 The human rights activist Lidia “Taty” Almeida – who spent more than half a century searching for her son after he was forcibly disappeared b
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. These new solid-state ACs promise a cool future. Scientists aren’t so sure. After three years of record-breaking heat and
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20262 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Directory or Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2026-54420 LiteSpeed cPanel Plugi
Washington will come to regret its stalemate with Beijing.
The real lessons of Orban’s defeat.
This fluid pump was inspired by the way squids propel themselves through the water. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.
Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.
At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. The post Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked : "Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic
This week's Java roundup for June 8th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of A2A Java SDK 1.0; an update on Jakarta EE 12; point releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; maintenance releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools and OpenXav
a quiet day lets us report on Satya's hit essay
Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an open-house event, E
AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.
Isar Aerospace is not hurting for money, but it is sorely lacking in the currency of flight experience.
Attackers can move from access to exfiltration in 72 minutes. Learn how modern SOC teams close the speed gap with Unit 42's AI-driven automation, threat hunting, MDR and Managed XSIAM. The post Inside the Modern SOC: The 72-Minute Race appeared first on Unit 4
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how NATO is set up to deter conventional conflict, and how that approach is fundamentally unsuited for ongoing, everyday cyber operations that are intended to confound adversaries. This epi
Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.
At WWDC 2026, Apple introduced Xcode 27, which makes it easy to kick off tasks with coding agents, iterate on new project ideas, and customize the workspace. It also introduces DeviceHub for unified simulator and device management, along with enhancements to O
Anthropic has published additional details about the orchestration system behind Claude Code's recently introduced Dynamic Workflows, highlighting how the feature generates custom execution harnesses designed to coordinate teams of AI agents for complex tasks.
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AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that access, a
GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent. The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Critics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.
The revelation mirrors an alarming pattern of Chinese espionage groups dropping backdoors into critical infrastructure to intercept research and steal data with national security implications. The post Google exposes China espionage group that’s been lurking i
A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email. The way in was a backdoor on their REDCap research servers that stole login
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi). According to a report publishe
The critical, three-stage attack is now patched, but it's part of a new group of AI prompt-injection issues that use hidden URLs and other variables.
A new repository-level dataset, published on GitHub under CC0-1.0, helps researchers and developers discover multilingual developer content across READMEs, issues, and pull requests. The post Accelerating researchers and developers building multilingual AI wit
Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.
The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population of supernova remnants,
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside i
Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and will
Scientists await a big splash in the Pacific Ocean as one of the most research-packed Dragon spacecraft to date returns, completing the 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Biological and materials samples, along
Google discovered and disrupted the sprawling campaign, which stole RedCAP credentials to target numerous institutions and exfiltrate sensitive data.
Executive leaders may not be saying it aloud, but business objectives and priorities don't always promote timely disclosures.
Voices Shaping the Future of Space Members of the public are invited to join some of NASA’s brightest minds as they discuss agency missions and current topics in aerospace technology, science, and innovation. Each event will feature NASA experts, and the serie
The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding of how life works, and how it got started
IVF could be done inside the body using sperm that have been magnetised, allowing them to be directed to an egg while getting around the need for invasive egg retrievals and embryo transfers
Scientists have long grappled with how to measure the effect of social media on children. Now, the UK government has announced a total ban for everyone under 16, and researchers are rushing to design rigorous studies before it comes into effect
Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots understand instructions and learn to carry out any task independently
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 8th, 2026, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP and Spring Vault; and GA releases of Spring
Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to users through the cloud in 2028, which will require a real leap in engineering
AWS Hero Vadym Kazulkin explains how to overcome Java’s enterprise hurdle on AWS Lambda: cold starts and memory footprints. He shares a technical deep dive into performance tuning, comparing fully managed AWS SnapStart (with pre-snapshot priming hooks) against
Scientists have found that staple-shaped particles can tangle together to create a material that is both strong and flexible. Unlike conventional materials, these particles can be locked into a sturdy structure or rapidly unraveled using vibrations. The unusua
Researchers used genome editing to block the production of red pigments in lettuce, causing other beneficial plant compounds to build up instead. The lettuce continued to grow normally, pointing toward a new way to create crops with customized nutritional prof
In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking techno
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The rise of AI agents is fundamentally disrupting applications and analytical systems. Generic AI platforms don't usually have access to the context stored within enterprise databases. This is because traditional data architectures often lack context for agent
Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. The post Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen appeared first on Micros
As enterprises adopt agentic AI, they need to shift from reactive systems of intelligence to proactive systems of action to equip the agents they’re building with the context and performance they need, plus regulator-grade accountability, where every decision
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we introduce Chris Betz as the new CISO of Google Cloud. For his first Cloud CISO Perspectives, Chris shares four key lessons we learned about using AI to the defender’s advantage while buildin
Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling
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Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their software and
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