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Monday’s startup funding cycle is light on volume but unusually coherent in theme. The strongest verified new rounds span cybersecurity AI, quantum-computing infrastructure, and clean-air technology, with investors backing technologies tied to concrete operational problems rather than another crop of […] The post Startup Funding News Today, August 31, 2026: Apate.AI, S-Transistors, YOGa Clean Air…
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 31st August 2026, CyberNewswire The post Security Risk Advisors Launches SCALR AI as a Free SOC AI Platform for Security Teams first appeared on Tech Startups.
It’s Monday, August 31, 2026, and the AI boom just ran into the physical world. In the past day, OpenAI quietly vacuumed up tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents, SpaceX moved to cast the turbine blades […] The post Top Tech News Today, August 31, 2026: Apple, Google, Meta, NASA, OpenAI,…
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Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger problem: activity logs alone cannot tell you whether an agent’s access is legitimate. AI has…
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine…
Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It’s also renaming the “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that’s not a real human being. “We’ve heard that people don’t like seeing a profile…
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Named KindaRails2Shell, the arbitrary file read flaw allows attackers to extract secrets and execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Critical Ruby on Rails Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
