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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…
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.
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…
A domain with no SPF, DKIM, or DMARC record is an open invitation for scammers to send email that looks like it came from you. Business email compromise remains one of the costliest categories of cybercrime tracked by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, and most of those attacks start with a spoofed or look-alike…
When large language models (LLMs) hallucinate, developers typically assume the model lacks the required facts. Engineering teams diagnose the error as missing knowledge. The standard response is to increase model size, expand training data, or build complex retrieval architectures.A new study by researchers at Google Research and Technion demonstrates that the knowledge is often not…
Walking is still the point of Pokémon GO, but not every player can rack up kilometers on demand. Some are recovering from an injury, some live somewhere with zero spawns, and a growing number just want to check raids and events from a bigger screen while they work. That demand is why “pokemon go joystick”…
Berlin’s state government waited seven days before disconnecting compromised departments from its central network after first detecting suspicious data movement, a delay that gave the Rhysida ransomware gang enough time to pull an estimated 5.79 terabytes of files out of critical infrastructure systems, according to reporting from Tech Times and The Hacker News. The gap,…
Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as “specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers.” The adversary
It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer to the same underlying model. Fable…
Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI – after it lost control of its own AI tools – or by a succession of AI “civilizations.” Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to…
