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Predicts slower growth as savings from automation hit price of extended deals

Google Chrome has been found to have multiple vulnerabilities, with the most severe allowing for arbitrary code execution. This could enable an attacker to install programs, alter or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights, depending on the privileges of the logged-on user.

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Critics warn of climate danger as president in Texas claims change will save companies and consumers billions

Donald Trump announced his administration is “terminating” Biden-era regulations holding oil and gas companies accountable for large leaks of planet-warming methane during a rally in Lubbock, Texas, on Tuesday evening.

Trump said during a campaign rally in Texas that the change would save consumers and energy producers $45bn and unlock 210 million barrels of oil – equivalent to about 10 days of US petroleum consumption.

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Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

"If we lose the midterms, this effort will come to a complete halt," the Missouri Republican said on a podcast.

The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. […]

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

President at Texas campaign rally hails deal struck with post-Maduro government as ‘greatest oil victory in history’

Donald Trump suggested Venezuela become the 51st state of the United States on Tuesday as the president showed off a tanker he claimed had “one million barrels of oil on it” from the country, nine months after deposing its president.

At a campaign rally in Corpus Christ, Texas, Trump touted a US oil deal with Venezuela, which the US attacked in January, capturing its long-serving leader Nicolás Maduro.

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Ross Coulthart speaks with retired lawyer Robert S. Martinez, who describes a client that said he spent nearly 50 years with a government contractor at White Sands Missile Range.

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

The deal, expected to close sometime next year, is to help bring AI agents to work alongside humans to underwrite, analyze, and price decisions.

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A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds.

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack that caused system outages and disrupted patient care and academic activities. […]

The DIA's threat assessment suggests China may soon place directed energy weapons in space.

Owners of AI-run firms would evade liability for "reckless" AI, US Rep. Comer says.

GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now it's gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.

Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.

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Cyber leaders can get ahead of AI liability with rigorous documentation, transparency, and smart contract negotiations with AI vendors.

A credit card skimming group reportedly compromised a shared analytics script used by e-commerce platform Convertr to steal shoppers' payment data during checkout. […]

Cuban delegates reacted in response to claims from US ambassador Mike Waltz that the Havana government has profited off the forced labor of its citizens.

Israelis voted in their highest numbers in decades in a tense national election on Tuesday to decide whether to stick with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right coalition or change course.

A common mix of impersonation, domain infrastructure, and trusted software is helping attackers scale Microsoft Teams intrusions across organizations.

Ukrainian national Artem Stryzhak, 36, had pleaded guilty last year to charges related to participating in at least two well-known ransomware groups.

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The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."

Critical flaw in EDK2 allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.

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Oracle plans to add those chips alongside new Nvidia hardware and OpenAI services as businesses await AI payoffs

A recent Shai-Hulud attack shows defenders need real-time visibility into production code and affected services to respond to supply chain compromises.

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In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.

Easier app installs are coming to third-party stores, pending Google's stamp of approval.

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One critical, three high-severity EPICS bugs could disrupt research experiments

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

You can apparently now tell AI tools what sort of protein you want them to make.

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three cyber attacks targeting organizations in Japan in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a key element, either in the driving seat or to assist a human operator.

TrendAI, which analyzed three exposed server environments used by threat actors to conduct the malicious cyber operations, described them as distinct from previously published

If ever enacted, proposals by Marine Le Pen and the AfD leader, Alice Weidel, to hollow out EU institutions would be a continental act of self-harm

Following the Brexit referendum in 2016, Marine Le Pen was in a predictably celebratory mood. Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, she told one interviewer, was the first breach in the “Brussels Wall”. Ms Le Pen’s Front National party was at that point committed to taking France down the same path, given the chance. But as the UK’s self-inflicted economic wounds became a cautionary tale for the rest of Europe, the notion of Frexit was put on ice.

Instead, Ms Le Pen now hopes to lead far-right allies in hollowing out the EU from within. This month, both she and the leader of Alternative für Deutschland, Alice Weidel, outlined their visions of a “Europe of nations” in which EU institutions would be stripped of both cash and power. Ms Weidel’s “new deal for Europe” would abolish elections to the European parliament, and seek German opt-outs in areas such as migration, defence and common borrowing. Ms Le Pen’s party, now called National Rally, proposes slashing French contributions to the EU budget by 60% over a five-year presidential term, and ending the role of Brussels in proposing common policies for the 27 member states.

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Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to remove trust in certificates tied to compromised eMudhra certificate authority keys, protecting systems that do not receive automatic certificate trust updates. […]

Nathan Hamiel outlines potential SecOps horror in the AI midst, as core technical capabilities go the way of reading an atlas or remembering phone numbers.

Noyb files five complaints in four member states over alleged tracking of workers on Scale AI's Outlier platform

Article discusses zero standing privilege (ZSP) cybersecurity technology based on insights from industry demos, highlighting uneven adoption across vendors and a "65 ceiling" reference suggesting implementation challenges or coverage limitations.

Tuskira evaluated 11 zero-day response platforms including Zafran, Picus, Qualys, Horizon3.ai and XM Cyber, comparing their capabilities across reachability analysis, control validation and pre-patch mitigation functionality.

AI-powered alert triage enables small Security Operations Center teams to manage high alert volumes by automating initial classification and prioritization. The article outlines implementation benefits, limitations, and a five-step deployment approach maintaining human oversight.

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery