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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, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also…
Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing…
The ongoing social engineering threat, which dates back to late 2025, tricks victims into granting threat actors long-term access to their accounts. The post FBI raises alarm over deceptive phishing campaign targeting prominent people appeared first on CyberScoop.
Peters still left the door open to working with Shasta County on elections and doubled down on her statements that electronic voting machines should be discontinued. The post Tina Peters, through attorney, backs off formal role in Shasta County elections appeared first on CyberScoop.
The Federal Ballot Mail Portal is described by a federal official as one of several IT systems that will be used to potentially deny thousands of mail-in ballots or more to states. The post Whistleblower says USPS deploying new, ‘untested’ IT systems governing mail-in ballots appeared first on CyberScoop.
More than 200 companies have now signed to an August 27 letter about improving cyber defenses in the age of AI. Buried in it are three metrics every one of them endorse under its own logo: coverage, containment speed, and whether fixes work. The post The Collective Cyber Defense letter wrote your next vendor questionnaire…
Some security researchers have observed an uptick in insider-assisted ransomware attacks, but malicious insiders pose other threats that cost companies millions.
CVE-2026-82329 is an authentication bypass flaw in JFrog’s repository manager that enables bad actors to gain admin-level access on affected systems.
Multiplayer game studios have a scaling problem that regular web apps don’t: a game server can’t just spin up and shut down on a whim mid-match. It has to hold state, keep a UDP socket open, and survive until the round ends. That mismatch is why so many teams either build brittle in-house fleet managers…
Most new business owners don’t set out to mix their personal and business finances. It happens through small decisions. One card is closer than the other at the register. A client pays into the wrong account because that’s the number […] The post How to Separate Personal and Company Money From Day One first appeared…
