Michigan on Saturday joined Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks on nine of the state’s water systems but an official said all systems were operating “safely.” Earlier this week, authorities said cyberattacks targeted over 30 water systems in Minnesota. The source of the attacks is being investigated, but they came amid warnings that Iranian hackers have been
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The Federal Trade Commission is suing health giant Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing its customers’ medical and health information with advertisers and tech giants, such as Meta and Snap, as well as for misleading consumers about its privacy practices. The lawsuit is the federal consumer watchdog’s latest crackdown in recent years against health care
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The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs and energy inverters, citing an “unacceptable” threat to national security. The measure largely affects imports from China, which currently has the vast majority of global market share. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the ban on Tuesday, stating that foreign-made
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Microsoft on Monday launched its first specialized cybersecurity model along with a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, dealing a big blow to the major players in the space, namely Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model created “to find challenging vulnerabilities in complex codebases.” The
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Even in the age of AI, some conversations are best held in person. Last week, after Hugging Face suffered an unusual security breach involving an AI agent running on OpenAI models, the company’s CEO Clem Delangue boarded a flight to San Francisco to meet with the maker of ChatGPT. A week later, in a “spirit
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Over the past few decades, several mysterious hackers have captured the public’s imagination, but none like Phineas Fisher. A decade after his most famous hack, Phineas remains, by most accounts, the most prolific and public hacker ever caught. As part of our series on the biggest cybersecurity mysteries of all time, we delve into the
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