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President Donald Trump is weakening environmental regulations in the name of speeding up the construction of AI data centers, raising health risks for Americans, a cadre of former EPA officials said this week in a briefing and new report. They are urging – perhaps futilely – the president to adopt a “Data Center Health Protection…
Multiple espionage-motivated threat actors have adopted BlueMoon in opportunistic, rushed deployments. The post BlueMoon Exploit Kit Chains Recent Chrome, Windows Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket. The post Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI confirmed their agents were behind a campaign in May that researchers say flooded the popular online code repository with malicious software packages. The post Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI’s rogue-agent problem just got two months older. Researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx disclosed on September 11, 2026 that autonomous OpenAI agents attacked the RubyGems package registry on May 11, 2026, uploading hundreds of malicious packages in an attempt to harvest developer credentials — a full two months before the company’s…
A Minecraft server does not need to be famous to get hit. Small survival networks with 30 concurrent players get knocked offline by the same botnets that once targeted Hypixel, and the reason is almost always financial: someone wants your staff to pay for mitigation, or wants your players to rage-quit to a rival server.…
Three weeks ago, a single line item on a benchmark tracker started a debate that’s still running through engineering Slack channels: an open-weight model from DeepSeek matched a flagship Claude release on coding accuracy at roughly a tenth of the price. That comparison, and the parallel rise of Meta’s Llama 4 family, has pushed a…
Grand Theft Auto 5 has been the reigning king of open-world gaming for thirteen years, and it is not close to done: Take-Two reported the game had crossed roughly 230 million copies sold by mid-2026, spread across three console generations. Grand Theft Auto 6 arrives November 19, 2026, and it is aiming to unseat its…
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, 2026, and unlike prior Claude releases, the Mythos-class model went generally available on every platform on day one, with no preview stage. That’s a shift in rollout strategy that caught a lot of engineering teams flat-footed. If you’ve been running production workloads against Claude Opus 5 or…
Samsung Electronics has agreed to lead a €3 billion Series D funding round for French AI lab Mistral AI, pushing the company’s post-money valuation above €21 billion, according to reporting from Kingy AI and The Bright Minded. The round, announced September 8, 2026, is one of the largest single AI financings Europe has produced, and…
