Collaborate Disseminate
A British national tied to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group pleaded guilty to hacking multiple companies via SMS phishing and stealing over $8 million in virtual currency from US victims. Tyler Robert Buchanan, 24, of Dundee, Scotland, pleaded gui… Continue reading Scattered Spider hacker pleads guilty to stealing $8 million in cryptocurrency
Organizations in healthcare, finance, and other sensitive industries want to use large AI models without exposing private data to the cloud servers running those models. A cryptographic technique called Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) makes this p… Continue reading Researchers build an encrypted routing layer for private AI inference
The European Commission is stepping up efforts to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty by awarding a cloud services tender worth up to €180 million over six years. The initiative gives EU institutions and agencies access to sovereign cloud services … Continue reading EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers
Google claims that its security teams work around the clock using its Gemini AI models to detect and stop harmful ads. “Bad actors are using generative AI to create deceptive ads at scale, and Gemini helps us detect and block them in real time… Continue reading Google wipes out 602 million scam ads with Gemini on duty
For organizations that want to keep company data within their own systems and have more control over how AI is deployed, Mozilla is offering an alternative to externally hosted AI services with Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client designed for self-ho… Continue reading Mozilla challenges enterprise AI providers with Thunderbolt, open-source AI client under your control
Google shipped Android 17 Beta 4 on April 16, marking the last scheduled beta in the Android 17 release cycle. The build targets app compatibility testing and platform stability ahead of the final release, and it carries several behavior changes that d… Continue reading Android 17 Beta 4 arrives with post-quantum cryptography and new memory limits
Apple’s AirTag is designed to help users track lost items by relying on a vast network of nearby Apple devices. New research shows that this same system can be manipulated to display locations where an AirTag has never been. Relaying an AirTag’s BLE ad… Continue reading Apple AirTag tracking can be misled by replayed Bluetooth signals
Governments are moving to block children under 16 from social media in the name of safety. But once these measures move from policy to practice, they raise a harder question: what happens when protecting kids requires collecting more data than ever bef… Continue reading Social media bans might steer kids into riskier corners of the internet
Software teams building agentic AI workflows have been pushing frontier models toward longer, unsupervised task runs. Claude Opus 4.7, now generally available from Anthropic, is aimed squarely at that demand, with particular gains in software engineeri… Continue reading Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with automated cybersecurity safeguards
Two US nationals have been sentenced for their role in a scheme that placed North Korean IT workers inside American companies under false identities. Over several years, the operation used stolen identities from at least 80 US individuals and brought i… Continue reading Two US nationals jailed over scheme that generated $5 million for the North Korean regime