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Eighty-five days ago, Anthropic pushed a button that crypto security teams had been dreading for months. On June 9, 2026, the company released Claude Fable 5, the public version of its internal Mythos model, to anyone with an API key. Within hours, crypto traders and security researchers were warning that a model this capable at…
Crypto markets are on edge again, and this time the trigger isn’t a hack that already happened. It’s a model that hasn’t fully shipped yet. Anthropic’s push toward a public release of Claude Fable, reported by Yellow.com and picked up by outlets including Axios, Intelligent Living, 36Kr and OfficeChai, has revived a debate that security…
The National Vulnerability Database entered September 2026 carrying more than 27,000 unprocessed CVEs, a backlog that grew from roughly 13,000 in mid-2024, according to a June 2026 inspector general report from the US Commerce Department. In April 2026, NIST reclassified close to 29,000 of those backlogged entries as “Not Scheduled,” meaning they get no automatic…
Forescout Research – Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic’s Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a stack-based buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server’s handling of the USER command
OpenAI said this week that its next model, code-named Astra, has crossed the company’s own “Critical” cybersecurity threshold, the highest tier in its internal risk-classification system. TechCrunch reported on September 1, 2026 that internal testing showed Astra could find previously unknown security flaws and exploit them without a human walking it through each step. Fortune’s…
Type “AI chatbot builder” into Google in September 2026 and three names dominate the results: Chatbase, Voiceflow, and Botpress. All three let a business spin up an AI-powered support agent without writing a full application from scratch, and all three now plug into frontier models like GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini. But they solve different problems…
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz to announce CrowdStrike SafeMind, its agentic cybersecurity system developed by the CrowdStrike Cyber…
OneXPlayer just made a bet that no other handheld gaming PC maker has been willing to place: two flagship devices, launched six days apart, built on directly rival chip platforms. The OneXPlayer 3, running Intel’s brand-new Arc G3 Extreme processor, opened pre-orders on Indiegogo on July 14, 2026, with pricing from $1,399 to $1,699. Six…
Alphabet shares ticked higher in after-hours trading on Tuesday after a report said Google could unveil Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday, September 3, 2026. The claim, circulated by outlets including TradingView, BNN Bloomberg, TipRanks and Crypto Briefing, points to an internal codename (“Skimaki”), a coding-focused upgrade, and a release cadence that would mark…
A leaked internal build called Gemini 3.8 Flash is reportedly being tested inside Google right now, and social chatter has already pinned a Wednesday, September 3, 2026 launch date to it. But pull back the layers on that rumor and a more interesting story shows up: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are locked in a token-pricing…
