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The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9…
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Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers.
The Squid is a new scientific machine: One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put togeth…
He’s being prosecuted for giving border officials a code that wiped his phone: The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices…
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326 entries
Cybersecurity briefings on breaches, exploited vulnerabilities, ransomware, incident response, and systemic security failures.
43 entries
Privacy briefings on data misuse, tracking changes, surveillance harms, regulator action, and data rights enforcement.
119 entries
AI risk briefings on model misuse, deployment failures, safety regressions, governance gaps, and synthetic-media harms.
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Governance briefings on enforcement, standards, court action, regulator opinions, institutional accountability, and policy shifts.
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Infrastructure briefings on cloud, telecoms, public systems, network edge, and critical infrastructure risk developments.
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Surveillance briefings on biometrics, monitoring systems, identity correlation, tracking technology, and public or private observation systems.