China rejects Amodei’s AI slowdown proposal, calling it fearmongering and a US attempt to contain China’s technology sector. The debate over whether the world should slow down the development of advanced AI has quickly turned into something bigger than a technology argument. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has called for a slower pace of development, […]
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Two of the above vulnerabilities affect JFrog Artifactory. CVE-2026-42016 can allow attackers to bypass authorization checks and […]
Two critical Check Point VPN flaws score 9.8 and could enable remote code execution. Patch now and restrict VPN access before exploitation begins. The Dutch NCSC warns that two critical vulnerabilities in Check Point VPN products, both rated CVSS score of 9.8, could soon be actively exploited. If you use Check Point VPN, you should […]
Anthropic CEO calls for AI slowdown, proposes embedded evaluators and global coordination. Geopolitical competition with China makes a voluntary pause structurally fragile. Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier“, calling on the AI industry, governments, and international bodies to slow the pace of AI capability development before safety research can catch up. It’s the […]
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CVE-2026-85706, a CVSS 10.0 GitLab path traversal, was under active exploitation within 24 hours of disclosure. GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10.0) on September 10, 2026, a path traversal vulnerability in its repository commits API. CVE-2026-85706 affects GitLab’s repository commits API and can let attackers access files they should not see. A crafted request […]
Ukrainian lawyer and Conti malware developer Oleksii Lytvynenko was sentenced to four years in U.S. prison for ransomware attacks. Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko had, by most accounts, a fairly ordinary legal career in Ukraine before he switched to writing malware. A US federal court sentenced the 44-year-old to four years in prison this week for conspiracy […]
AI is becoming an operational force for cybercrime, surveillance, propaganda, fraud and weapons development, lowering the cost and scale of attacks. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more than a tool for people who want to do something malicious. It is increasingly becoming part of the operational machinery itself. That is the main message emerging from […]
Researchers found 36,769 exposed AI endpoints, but only 2% had an HTTP authentication gate. Running AI locally is supposed to give organizations more control. Models, prompts and documents stay on infrastructure they manage instead of being sent to a third-party cloud. But that advantage disappears quickly when the infrastructure itself is exposed to the public […]