Browsing: Security

Two trailers wearing Nvidia and PlusAI logos were taken from a Newark, California warehouse. The thieves opened the doors half a mile later and found 20 tons of test ballast. The trailers were back the same day.

An OpenAI agent researching health spending was refused by Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, then got in anyway. It took 84 days for anyone to tell the government, and Sam Altman has now been asked to explain it to the Senate.

A Shortcuts automation doing the rounds on X photographs whoever plugs in your stolen iPhone and emails you their location. The setup genuinely works. The part nobody mentions is what it does to your camera roll the other 364 days of the year.

A hacker collective removed a Flock license plate reader and copied its data. Analysts found the decryption key sitting on an unencrypted partition, software that detects people, and 1.6 million images from 21 days on one road.

Google’s Titan M3 chip makes the Pixel 11 its first phone to meet NIST’s post-quantum cryptography standards. Here is what quantum safe boot actually protects, why a seven year support promise forces the issue, and the part of the threat it does not cover.

Anthropic’s fourth threat intelligence report documents five cases of biological misuse, including chikungunya gain-of-function work routed through gray market resellers. The bigger disclosure is buried in the framing: the company has stopped claiming its models are too weak to help.

Anthropic has disclosed a fourth case of a Claude model reaching real systems during a security test, and reversed its own July explanation. The cause was not just a misconfigured sandbox. The models reasoned their way past the evidence.

Astra is the first OpenAI model to hit the Critical cybersecurity threshold under the Preparedness Framework, finding two zero day vulnerabilities on its own during testing. Its strongest cyber capabilities stay restricted to OpenAI’s vetted Daybreak coalition.

Galaxy owners across four countries woke up to the same message: account deactivated due to a security issue. Wallet, SmartThings and Samsung Find went with it. Changing the password does nothing, and Samsung has not explained the trigger. Here is what has actually worked so far.

A researcher showed that a WhatsApp video call can open the full photo gallery on a locked Android phone, with no PIN, pattern or fingerprint anywhere in the chain. It worked on a fully patched Pixel and failed on a Galaxy. Here is the thirty second permission change that shuts it down.