The real valuable capability MCP offers over skills/CLI is isolating the auth flow outside of the agent’s context window, and potentially out of the harness completely. [...] Maybe the idealized form of MCP is just an auth gateway for the API and nothing else.
Dolphins, sharks, turtles, and human workers are all victims of unregulated squid fishing fleets. Another news article . 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.
Brazil wants regulation. Argentina rejects it.
The government can execute war criminals or get full international support—but not both.
On June 9th, Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model. Three days later, the US government classified it as a dangerous munition, and used its export-control authority to prohibit any foreign nationals from accessing it. Unable to differentiate between
How other countries and their citizens helped the United States live up to its ideals.
Panicking strongmen will turn to more extreme measures.
More than eight million South Africans are living with HIV – the highest number of any country in the world.
Market intelligence platform Klue has publicly confirmed a recent security incident that allowed threat actors to steal OAuth tokens used to connect to customers' Salesforce environments, as the new "Icarus" extortion group publicly claims the attack. [...]
Ukraine has denounced the move, calling it a "strategic mistake" and "disrespectful".
Nothing's next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won't be coming this year: We were working on a successor but with memor
Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Gravity SMTP, active on 100,000 sites. [...]
The highly public exchange is an indication that their earlier close ties have frayed since Trump's decision to go to war with Iran.
The agreement followed concerns that continued clashes would undermine the deal to end the war between the US and Iran.
Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA's Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the "spacecra
The man was allegedly struck by his 81-year-old opponent, who has since been arrested, the public prosecutor says.
Ensuring fair compensation for those affected by legacies of enslavement and measures to address debt burdens, part of 18-point strategic roadmap More than money: the logic of slavery reparations A global framework for reparatory justice has been adopted at a
Smart lighting company Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules. Installed behind existing wall switches, the new devices bring non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem for the first time. Hue also announced new Play table and floor lamps that are
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) disclosed a data breach at its license system vendor that exposed personal information for more than three million individuals. [...]
NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS's genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup. And, like Atonemo's existing Streamplayer, you can also listen to your favorite
Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.
Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman's termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in
AI agents can access data, trigger workflows, deploy code, and interact with critical business systems, often with little oversight. Token Security breaks down why AI agents are becoming a new identity and governance challenge. [...]
This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
Modern phishing attacks, including Device Code phishing, can undermine MFA protections and grant attackers access to corporate accounts without stealing passwords. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help security teams detect compromised accounts fast
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. A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth last m
We break down the current iPad lineup to help you figure out which of Apple’s tablets is best for you.
Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested multiroom mesh systems will get you online in no time.
For young people, the trend removes the stigma of being unmarried and alone, and recasts it as something to aim for, not avoid.
Even after your movies end, these art televisions look stunning on any wall.
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade. The details were thin, and many people we
This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first power user” of a brain implant, according to the researchers who worked with him. Harrell is paralyzed and unable to speak coherently without the device. He has now spent almost t
There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate this duality, which probably reveals something about both me
The Trump administration has not been kind to India. Nevertheless, India has responded with far greater equanimity than most observers expected. Predictions that President Donald Trump's behavior will hurt U.S.-Indian relations have not come to pass, with the
Equilibrium with Iran is the best America can do.
How to counter an insidious global threat.
UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.
There are over a dozen cases around the country where police officers are using the Flock surveillance camera system to obsessively and illegally stalk people . Alternate link .
War is a brutal driver of medical innovation. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has forced clinicians and commanders alike to confront a hard truth: Survival depends not only on tactics and technology, but on the ability to deliver advanced care under fi
Criticism surrounding the breaks has been aimed at the commercial benefits for the three-minute pauses in action.
One person is dead and almost 90 injured, after two trains collided near Bedford, about 100km north of London.
We provide guidance for preparing for and mitigating large-scale credential attacks, focusing on recent campaigns targeting security vendors' devices. The post Threat Brief: Mitigating Large-Scale Credential Attacks appeared first on Unit 42 .
French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.
For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.
Go's IPO — Japan's biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country's languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan's shortage of d
What's the most cliche possible gift you can give a relative? A digital photo frame, displaying a rotating slideshow of family photos. Now Aura has completely refreshed this product space with its gorgeous Aura Ink frame, which uses e-ink to create a display t
Security researchers at Paradigm Shift have published a working exploit, dubbed usbliter8, that achieves arbitrary code execution inside the SecureROM of Apple's A12 and A13 chips. That code is burned into the silicon at manufacture. No software
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers that it hands out to affiliates for impairing system defenses before deploying the encryptor. This mature por
MIT researchers’ approach captures subtle atomic patterns, improving predictions of material properties.
Older mice that received a faecal microbiome transplant from younger animals went on to have improved brain plasticity, which suggests their brains could overcome a neurological condition that is typically successfully treated only in childhood
Something is absorbing light on the surfaces of Pluto and Saturn’s moon Titan, and figuring out what it is could be crucial to understanding Titan’s complex chemistry
Efficiency ratings on portable air conditioners don’t give consumers the full picture, and one type of aircon unit is so inefficient that it should be banned, says Michael Le Page
Qubot, our internal Copilot-powered analytics agent, allows any GitHub employee to ask questions about our data in plain language. Here's what we learned as we built it. The post How we built an internal data analytics agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Microsoft researchers have detailed an exploit chain, named AutoJack, that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. Steer the agent to load an attacker's web page, and that page's JavaScript can reach a privileged loca
Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. "With these actions we deprive cybercri
Block, Inc. describes migrating ~450 JVM repositories into a monorepo across Cash App and Square engineering to reduce dependency drift and coordination overhead. The system supports ~8,800 weekly builds with ~10 min p90 CI time. The approach improves cross-se
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices. The sweeping campaign,
A French launch startup is scrapping the name of its rocket, apparently due to a trademark issue.
Carbon monoxide in Uranus's deep atmosphere indicates that the planet contains more ice than rock, suggesting it formed more like Neptune than we thought
A distant galaxy nicknamed Shadow Blaster may have revealed a surprising source of cosmic neutrinos: extreme star formation instead of a supermassive black hole. The discovery suggests that hidden, dust-filled starburst galaxies could account for a significant
As threats proliferate and AI complicates cybersecurity, CISOs say the job is getting harder, but more companies still want cybersecurity expertise, if even on a part-time basis.
Researchers developed a Wordle-solving strategy that succeeds 99% of the time by focusing on information gain rather than likely answers. The method uses Shannon entropy to identify guesses that reveal the most about the hidden word. Each guess is designed to
OpenAI’s Bonnie Xu discusses Kepler, an internal AI data analyst agent built to query 600+ petabytes of data. She explains how they overcome context window limits using MCP, automated code crawling, and RAG. Xu also shares how their team leverages scoped seman
CircleCI has launched Chunk Sidecars, a new capability designed to bring CI-style validation directly into an AI coding agent's inner development loop By Craig Risi
TSRX is a TypeScript language extension developed by Dominic Gannaway, designed to build declarative user interfaces in a framework-agnostic manner. It compiles single .tsrx files to various runtime targets and supports scoped styles and declarative error hand
A newly identified molecule called OLE helped restore the brain’s immune cells to a more protective state in Alzheimer’s models. The treatment reduced toxic plaque buildup and improved memory, raising hopes for a new therapeutic approach.
Researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs.
Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between quantum gravity and an exotic quantum state of matter that could explain why the universe isn’t expanding wildly fast. The study suggests that the very shape of space-time may protect the cosmological c
The disruption of your gut microbiome is a major consequence, and possible cause, of ageing. Columnist Graham Lawton looks into recent trials examining whether it can be replenished through diet and prebiotics, probiotics or postbiotics
Most cloud systems make one authorization decision at login. Everything after runs on trust established at authentication time. For systems handling regulated data, that gap is where breaches happen. This article presents a continuous authorization architectur
A new biomaterial made from jackfruit latex, pomegranate peel, and simvastatin could transform the treatment of severe gum disease. Early tests suggest it not only combats infection and inflammation but may also help rebuild lost bone and tissue around teeth.
With GLM-5.2 passing everyone's vibe check, the open models story finally becomes a real frontier story.
A LOT of Fortinet creds have leaked online, Canada’s spy agency allowed to remove a botnet from Canadian devices, a supply chain attack hits the Mastra AI framework, and Europol disrupts SocGolish. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Canada’s spy agency allowed to remo
The first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season brought intense rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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A hacker could have "Rickrolled" the World Cup — or worse — thanks to FIFA's unenforced Entra access controls.
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More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too
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One of the most powerful environmental cleaning technologies in recent years is too small to see with the naked eye. Nanobubbles—tiny gaseous bubbles with diameters of around 100 nanometers—can clean up a range of harmful pollutants in water, from oil spills t
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More than half of France's population was dealing with scorching temperatures on Friday, according to AFP's calculations, with hundreds of schools adapting their timetables to keep students out of broiling classrooms.
The Australian government has agreed to invest almost $53 million in a north Tasmanian company that will upgrade its coal-fired kiln to burn wood "waste" and used tires for cement manufacturing.
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Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5's guardrails. Cybersec
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5's guardrails. Cybersec
Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
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…
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A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their environment.
In its first year, INM has worked across research, workforce development, and industry engagement to help accelerate new manufacturing technologies and their real-world deployment.
SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However, the sa
