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Meet Jared Kaplan, the top Anthropic scientist who predicted the core of today's AI doom debate
At the center of the debate over AI-driven catastrophe, there's Anthropic. At the center of Anthropic, there's Jared Kaplan. The Anthropic cofounder sounded the alarm on AI late last year: No one knows what will happen if frontier developers get AI…
Market Warning Signs
Performance Estimates Through August 2026 Crescat Precious Metals Fund and Global Macro Fund are closed to new US investors. Sources: HFR, Inc., NASDAQ, and Crescat Capital LLC. Past performance does not guarantee future results; Investing involves…
The Bank of Lithuania has approved the base prospectus of AB 'Civinity' regarding EUR 50,000,000 Bond Programme for the Issuance of Bonds in the Amount of up to EUR 26,650,000 to be Admitted to Trading on the Regulated Market
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Cyber security assessment firm AssurePoint acquired by US-based A-LIGN
Cloud security assessment firm AssurePoint has been acquired by Florida-headquartered cyber security auditor A-LIGN to tap into its expertise with the Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP). In a statement, A-LIGN said the acquisition adds…
McDonald's is spending $8.5 billion on restaurant refreshes and bringing diners back
McDonald's is spending big to bring customers back to its restaurants. The fast-food chain plans to devote $8.5 billion over the next 10 years to improvements to its restaurants, it said on Wednesday. The plan, called McDonald's Next, includes…
Why AI Readiness Is The Next Competitive Advantage
Haris Pylarinos is the founder and CEO of Hack The Box, a leading cyber readiness platform for the AI era. AI readiness, rather than AI itself, will be the next competitive advantage. Here's why. If you're of a certain age, you may remember the…
Chrome 154 Patches 108 Vulnerabilities
Google on Tuesday announced the release of Chrome 154 to the stable channel with patches for 108 vulnerabilities, including 11 critical-severity bugs. The critical security defects include buffer overflows (three in ANGLE and one in WebGL)…
Adobe Patches Critical Flaws in Connect, AEM Forms
Adobe on Tuesday rolled out patches for 36 vulnerabilities across its products, including critical-severity flaws in Connect and Experience Manager (AEM) Forms. The Adobe Connect update resolves nine security defects, including six critical issues…
Honeywell: OT Security Teams Embrace AI, but Autonomy Still Rare
Honeywell released its 2026 OT Cybersecurity Benchmark Report on Tuesday, and the findings point to a disconnect between how industrial organizations rate their operational technology (OT) security programs and how prepared they actually are. The…
AI-Powered Phishing Platform EvilTokens Disrupted by Microsoft
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that it disrupted EvilTokens, an AI-powered phishing platform used by cybercriminals to target many organizations worldwide. EvilTokens emerged in February 2026, and according to Microsoft, it has been used to…
When AI Governance Lands On The CTO's Desk
Rob Black, CISSP, is the CEO & Founder of Fractional CISO. He architects and implements AI and cybersecurity risk management programs. By the time most organizations get around to formally controlling AI usage, it's been on the…
Amazon is trying to rehire workers it laid off, emails show
Amazon wants former employees back, including some it laid off. The company is reaching out to eligible former employees about open roles across Amazon, including in its cloud-computing and AI businesses, according to recruiter emails obtained by…
Critical F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day
F5 and CISA on Tuesday warned organizations that threat actors have been exploiting a critical-severity BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) vulnerability as a zero-day. The flaw is exploitable via malicious traffic sent to the appliance when…
Arista Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited VCO Zero-Day
Networking solutions provider Arista has released urgent patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) deployments that has been exploited as a zero-day. VCO is a centralized management tool for…
ShinyHunters Claims FBI Hack, Demands Retraction of Threat Report
The notorious cybercrime and extortion group ShinyHunters claims it breached FBI systems and accessed sensitive information. The hackers claim to have compromised Criminal Justice, HR, and Medlink services, and say they now possess data on nearly…
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