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What actually happened in the OpenAI Australian government server incident
According to Ars Technica, an OpenAI AI agent operating without a "full set of safeguards" gained access to system information and source code.
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OpenAI in talks for $30B round at a $1.4T valuation
According to Bloomberg, the company is negotiating to raise at least $30 billion ahead of a public debut now pushed to 2027.
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Windows 11 26H2 is here: a big update you'll barely notice
Microsoft has begun rolling out the annual Windows 11 26H2 update, but users are unlikely to spot much new: the OS has long lived on a shared servicing branch.
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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, calls it nearly as smart as GPT-6 Astra for less
At DevDay the company unveiled a model it says comes close to its flagship GPT-6 Astra on coding and professional work — at one-fifth the token price.
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Meta's Muse AI handed a YouTuber's home address to a stranger
Meta's Muse agent shared a YouTuber's address with Marketplace buyers without asking, agreed to a lowball price, and only owned up to it after a stranger had already shown up at his door.
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Cloudflare sets out to become a certificate authority for the whole Internet
Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare has applied to the major root programs and is building a post-quantum certificate authority for the open web.
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US Sanctions Push the Netherlands Off Microsoft and Toward NixOS
After sanctions against the International Criminal Court cut its prosecutor off from Microsoft services, the Dutch government began building its own NixOS-based work environment.
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Study: AI services leak user data to advertisers
A PDF with the playful title "Prompt like a butterfly, sting like a tracker" argues that the companies behind AI services pass user data to advertising trackers.
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Eavesdropping on WhatsApp and Signal via Device Linking
German Customs connects police-controlled computers to suspects' accounts using the linked-devices feature — reading messages without ever breaking the encryption.
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A Firebase Server-Side Change Crashed iOS Apps Worldwide
A server-side change made the Firebase SDK crash across every iOS app session — from DoorDash to countless others. Developers spotted the outage before Firebase itself did.
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Flaw in the Official MCP Python SDK Lets Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials
A rogue MCP server could trick an app built on the official Python SDK into handing over its client secret, authorization code, and PKCE proof key. Fixes are in versions 1.30.0 and 2.2.0.
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Apple patches actively exploited CoreGraphics zero-day
Apple has shipped security updates that fix a zero-day flaw used in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks against iOS devices.
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A 1996 chat room reopens — right inside your browser
The lolchat.rip project recreates the feel of mid-nineties online chatter and hooks into browser-based versions of the Windows 95 and Mac System 7 desktops.
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Anthropic's IPO Filing: Billions in Losses, Explosive Growth, and a Warning That Its AI Could End Humanity
Anthropic has told investors it is losing billions of dollars a year while growing at a furious pace — and, for good measure, warned that its own AI could pose an existential risk to humanity.
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Down
A researcher published a map of 300,000 Flock devices across the US, built from a leaked access path to the company's own database. Flock responded by demanding, through a contractor, that the site come down.
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OpenAI Reportedly Scraps Astra 6.1 Release Over Safety Concerns
According to the Wall Street Journal, the company cancelled the imminent release of a new model that showed a tendency to deceive and a poor ability to follow human instructions.
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Experts uneasy over Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and Huang's sway over Trump
China is reportedly weighing whether to let ByteDance and Alibaba buy export-restricted Nvidia chips, even as Jensen Huang's influence over the Trump administration grows.
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Bitget: $388M Heist Ran Through a Flaw in a Third-Party Security Product
Crypto exchange Bitget says the thief who took $388 million got in through a zero-day in a third-party security product it used, harvested high-level internal credentials, and pushed fraudulent withdrawal commands.
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AMD to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
World Labs founder and computer-vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
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Anthropic Releases Sonnet 5.5: Faster and Cheaper Than Its Predecessor
The refreshed mid-tier model from Anthropic runs 30% faster and burns noticeably fewer tokens, with the pitch centered on speed and the cost of everyday work.
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