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Europol flags 4,340 URLs for removal in 'The Com' crackdown

Europol has flagged 4,340 URLs for removal during a multi-week operation targeting online content linked to "The Com," a loosely organized network of ...

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Default Azure Automation Setting Enables Cross-Tenant Identity Takeover

Microsoft addresses a public-by-default configuration and chain of code flaws in Azure Automation that could have let attackers seize another tenant's...

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Why AI Needs a β€œGenie Coefficient”

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in IEEE Spectrum. Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether i...

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Google’s anti-search-scraping lawsuit dismissed

A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. T...

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Microsoft explains why its West US Azure and cloud services failed

Microsoft cloud and Azure services hosted on the West Coast of the US went down for hours on Thursday when network connectivity...

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Email threats changed after the Tycoon2FA take-down

Traditional phishing techniques are in decline as a result of the disruption of the Tycoon2FA phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) pla...

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Google fined $1 billion for anticompetitive search and mobile app practices in EU

The European Commission has fined Google a total of €890 million ($1 billion) for its breaches of the Digital Market Act (DMA...

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Article: The Self-Building Agent: A LangChain4j Experiment

Article: The Self-Building Agent: A LangChain4j Experiment

The article discusses an experiment where a code assistant had to design an agentic system using LangChain4j documentation. The assistant created a co...

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Europe's Multilingual Reality Exposes AI Security Gaps

The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don't evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language....

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Google fined €890m by EU for favouring its own apps over rivals

It is the first major enforcement action against the tech giant under the EU's new digital rules....

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Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country

Hundreds of Drone-as-First-Responder Programs Could Soon Be Launched Across the Country

Police departments across the country are lining up to launch drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs, and hundreds have cleared a necessary hurdle to...

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Russian Hackers Exploit Zimbra Zero-Day Against US, Ukraine Targets

A state-sponsored threat group, dubbed "Laundry Bear," sends "half-click" phishing emails that require a victim only to open or pr...

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