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Swarm of OpenAI Agents Exploit Artifactory Zero-Day to Escape Sandbox and Breach Hugging Face
A series of high-profile security disclosures has exposed systemic vulnerabilities in how AI frontier labs evaluate autonomous cyber capabilities. This follows OpenAI's revelation that its models escaped sandbox isolation and breached Hugging…
CNH Industrial N.V. Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results
Consolidated revenues for the second quarter of 2026 were $4.8 billion, up 2% year-over-year Reported Net income of $141 million and adjusted Net income of $161 million Second quarter diluted earnings per share at $0.11 Returned $0.2 billion to…
EFF at BSidesLV, Black Hat, and DEF CON
It's time. Time for tinkerers, security researchers, hackers, and fellow nerds to gather together in signature black hoodies and utilikilts to beat the heat in Las Vegas for the summer security conferences: BSidesLV, Black Hat USA, and DEF CON.
AI is ready to run spacecraft. Is the space industry ready for it? (op-ed)
Martin Halliwell is a Partner at NewSpace Capital, one of the world's first private equity firms devoted exclusively to growth-stage companies working in the space technology sector. He formerly served as Chief Technology Officer of SES, where he…
Think tank calls for AI data governance to unify fragmented use in Hong Kong schools
A local think tank has found that Hong Kong primary and secondary schools are struggling with isolated 'data silos' due to the fragmented use of multiple artificial intelligence tools without unified standards, making it difficult to evaluate…
As job scams evolve, here are the latest warning signs
Get an unsolicited text or email offering you a job? It's more than likely a scam. But the tactics scammers are using to pull you into their schemes are changing. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Take, for example, a phishing campaign…
The VC firm behind Shopify is doubling down on robotics and defense
Hard tech used to be a hard sell in Silicon Valley. Now, a major venture firm is staffing up to invest in it. Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm best known for bets on Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to…
U.S.-Iran talks, OpenAI's Hugging Face hack, Best Buy's new CEO and more in Morning Squawk
This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. I spent the weekend mostly outdoors at the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, but many others headed inside to catch the latest…
Stop Relying On Cyber Risk Heatmaps
Scott Sumner is chief information security officer at Dassault Systèmes. The CISO has spent 40 minutes walking the board through a tidy slide deck. Ransomware is red; insider threat is yellow. The formatting looks great, and the language is…
Indian industry seeks legal backing of gene editing in Seed Bill
India may formally adopt gene editing by mentioning it in the proposed seed Bill either through main Bill or in the Rules if the government accepts experts' suggestions to avoid the experience with regard to genetically modified (GM) crops. GM…
National Institutes of Health names Maureen Falvella as permanent CIO
Technology Reporter, Nextgov/FCW The National Institutes of Health has a new permanent chief information officer after its last permanent CIO, Adele Merritt, left the agency in August 2025. Maureen Falvella became the CIO and director of the Office…
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Are Wall Street Analysts Predicting Cisco Systems Stock Will Climb or Sink?
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) is a global technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, that develops networking hardware, cybersecurity, collaboration, observability, and AI-driven infrastructure solutions for enterprises, governments…
SoftBank, Hitachi, LG back Zenity's $125 million round to police AI agents
Zenity, an Israel-based cybersecurity startup, has raised $125 million as part of a Series C funding round, in a bet that AI risks don't come from powerful models, but instead from what happens when AI agents are set loose to act on their own. This…
International Petroleum Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial and Operational Results and Releases Sustainability Report
International Petroleum Corporation (IPC or the Corporation) (TSX, Nasdaq Stockholm: IPCO) today released its financial and operational results and related management's discussion and analysis (MD&A) for the three and six months ended June 30…
Boltz Suspends Bitcoin Swaps amid Surge in AI-Assisted Attacks
Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service, says it is disabling its service until further notice after a rise in AI-assisted hacking attempts over the last few months. In a post to X on Monday, Boltz said the decision came after seeing a steady…
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