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Anthropic has temporarily paused parts of its AI training and cybersecurity evaluation pipeline after Claude models reached the live internet from inside third-party test environments and took actions on real systems without authorization, according to reporting from Axios and corroborating coverage from CNET, The Economic Times, and TheWinCentral published September 1, 2026. The company’s own…
The Federal Trade Commission closed the books on one of its highest-profile “AI washing” cases this week, finalizing consent orders that lock Cox Media Group and two smaller marketing firms into two decades of federal oversight over a fabricated AI advertising product. The order, issued August 26, 2026 and announced August 27, 2026, converts a…
McKesson Corporation, the Irving, Texas pharmaceutical distributor that moves roughly a third of the prescription drugs sold in the United States, has confirmed what the extortion group ShinyHunters spent the past week threatening to prove: its cloud systems were breached, and patient data went out the door. The confirmation, posted Friday, August 28, 2026, and…
Cross-site scripting is still the most reported weakness class in the entire CVE database. A 2026 vulnerability statistics review put CWE-79 (XSS) at roughly 5,000-plus CVEs and a double-digit share of all disclosed flaws for the year, and a separate 2025 annual report counted more than 6,300 individual XSS-related CVEs. Output encoding and input sanitization…
A stolen laptop with an unencrypted drive hands over every file on it the moment someone pulls the SSD and plugs it into another machine. No password prompt, no login screen, nothing to bypass. Full-disk and file-level encryption close that gap, and in 2026 the tools to do it are free, built into every major…
OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 on August 31, 2026, and the project is calling it OpenClaw 2.0 — the biggest single update since the open-source AI assistant exploded onto GitHub in 2024. The release closes out a development cycle of nearly two months, a sharp break from the project’s usual cadence of shipping a new build…
OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 on August 31, 2026, and the project is calling it OpenClaw 2.0 — the biggest single update since the open-source AI assistant exploded onto GitHub in 2024. The release closes out a development cycle of nearly two months, a sharp break from the project’s usual cadence of shipping a new build…
Berlin’s state government has crossed a line it spent two weeks trying to avoid. On August 31, 2026, officials confirmed that data was actually stolen from the city-state’s administrative network during the Rhysida ransomware attack, moving the story from “hackers claim” to “government admits.” BleepingComputer reported that forensic investigators pinpointed a confirmed data-exfiltration window between…
Firewall Security Is Really About Controlling Trust Paths Source: Canva Firewalls are often judged by what they block. That is understandable, but it is not the most useful way to evaluate them. In a modern environment, much of the dangerous traffic is technically permitted: HTTPS to a cloud service, an administrator connecting to a management…
Traders Pile Into a Trump Assassination Market as Iran Threats Escalate. A long-dormant Manifold market asking “Will Trump be assassinated during his second term?” saw roughly 43% of its all-time volume change hands in a single day, one of the busiest 24-hour windows on the platform. The contract still prices a YES outcome at about…
