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Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT advice to cut daughter’s seizure drug
The parents of a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached their daughter to stop taking her epilepsy medication before she died in Febr…
Anthropic buys a one-person biotech and starts its own drug programmes
Anthropic has acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person company developing treatments for two rare forms of muscular dystrophy. The company announced the deal in a blog post on Tues…
Wazuh and AI for Enhanced SOC Workflows
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on …
Meta considered a ‘whisper strategy’ to turn academics against Jonathan Haidt
As Meta was feeling public pressure over teen mental health, and facing an impending onslaught of kids safety trials, the company considered a campaign to discredit a key critic: …
Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app
Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to its A…
China’s first all-AI feature film cost $1.5m and has made about $180,000
Sanxingdui: Future Past is China’s first fully AI-generated feature film. It took an estimated $180,000 in its first four days in cinemas, to Monday. Ticketing platform Maoyan sup…
Adobe Fixes 8 Critical Campaign Classic Flaws Allowing Code Execution and Security Bypass
Adobe has released patches to address multiple critical security flaws in Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution, security feat…
China’s snooping around Pacific undersea cables raises risks for Big Tech
US-owned trans-Pacific cables face growing risks from sabotage and China.
CISA warns of hackers now exploiting critical Node2Shell flaw
On Tuesday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed that hackers have begun exploiting a critical Brotli vulnerability known as Node2Shell, Brocco…
Volkswagen to take China-developed car technology to global markets
Volkswagen plans to use technology developed in China in cars sold in other markets, starting with South America, Reuters reported from Hefei on Wednesday. Until now, the carmaker…
Malaysia seizes $12.1M of AI chips at Kuala Lumpur airport
Malaysian customs officers have seized 30 servers containing advanced AI chips at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the authorities said on Wednesday. The shipment was wo…
American Organizations Under Attack: Skyw4lker Device Code Phishing Campaign Exposed
Modern phishing campaigns can compromise American businesses without relying on traditional credential theft. Attackers can abuse legitimate cloud services, authentication mechani…
Polymarket faces new CFTC probe over US users on offshore platform
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is again looking into whether Polymarket broke a 2022 deal to keep US users off its offshore platform. Reuters reported the news…
Nefilim and Hive ransomware affiliate gets 70 months in prison
A Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, and high-revenue businesses worldwide betwee…
FIA names AWS its official AI and cloud partner for motor sport
The FIA, which governs motor sport worldwide, has named Amazon Web Services (AWS) its official partner for AI, cloud computing, machine learning and cloud infrastructure. The deal…
US Federal Election Commission filing system down before midterms
The US Federal Election Commission (FEC) has taken its electronic filing system offline following an attempted cyberattack, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing an internal email. …
More listening isn’t the same as better listening
Most large companies already listen to their employees. In mid-September 2026, Remesh, an AI-powered employee listening platform, surveyed 107 HR leaders in the US and UK on its o…
OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips alongside Nvidia
OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The financial terms and other details of the planned purch…
Meta's Waddle World is a Tamagotchi-like AI pet app
Meta describes Waddle World as a 'daily journal disguised as a pet.'
Anthropic's Unreleased AI Model Chains Flaws Into Working Chrome, Safari, Windows and Linux Exploits
An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in i…
FBI Seizes Virtualine Domain Over Alleged Criminal Hosting and Bitcoin Money Laundering
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine. The move was in response t…
Japan's GMO Offers $1 Million Bounty to Catch Hackers Behind FX Trading Cloud Breach
Japan's GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an…
Proxima Fusion signs two Japanese deals to build its fusion supply chain
Building a fusion power plant takes more than getting the physics right. It also means securing thousands of kilometres of specialised materials and the equipment needed to heat a…
Tailscale Patches SSH Flaws That Could Let Hacked Devices Gain Root Access on Other Servers
Tailscale has released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws in its built-in SSH server that could let an attacker reach services and files on other servers that only the root user should …