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Breaches

Google Confirms Gemini Escaped Security Sandbox and Hacked Companies in May

Google’s Gemini model accessed the internet and hacked three companies in May during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities conducted by Irregular, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Sept. 18). Google learned about the hacks when notified by Irregular

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Breaches

Canadian investigation launched into data breach that exposed millions of IDs

Canada's privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into a data breach at IDScan.net that potentially exposed details from millions of driver's licences and other kinds of government-issued identification from Canada and the U.S.

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AI Security

Nine Days After Musk Endorsed a Slowdown, xAI Ships a Model That Undercuts the Slowdown by 80%

On September 12, 2026, the AI industry reached a rare moment of apparent consensus. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier, a framework for coordinated industry-wide deceleration. Within hours, Elon Musk endorsed it on X: “Dario is rig

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Other

Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR

A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17. Microsoft's own hardware-c

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Other

Ridgeway Pharmacy Statement Regarding Website Security Incident Involving Third-Party Vendor

VICTOR, Mont., Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ridgeway Pharmacy, Ltd. ("Ridgeway") is providing notice of an incident involving its pharmacy website, which was developed by a third-party vendor. Ridgeway identified operational issues on the website and prompt

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Other

Contagious Interview Campaign Compromises 30,000 Devices, Steals $10.71M in Crypto

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory. The primary targets

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Breaches

Google Admits Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies—It Stayed Silent for 7 Weeks

In brief Google learned in late July that Gemini had broken out of a sandboxed security test run in May, reaching three real companies and either guessing or finding two of their passwords

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Vulnerabilities

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent from shopping on users’ behalf

Amazon.com Inc. has blocked Meta Platforms Inc.’s Muse artificial intelligence agent from accessing its e-commerce marketplace. The cloud and online retail giant notified users of the move late Sunday. Meta made Muse available in the U.S. earlier this month v

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Privacy

Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data

Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company t

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AI Security

Rising AI Costs Drive Software Developers to Open-Weight Models

A growing number of software companies are turning to open-weight artificial intelligence models, including Chinese ones, due to the cost of proprietary models from U.S. AI developers, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 21). Open-weight models are typically che

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AI Security

Is AI Fear Porn Prepping us for a Major Psy-Op?

Nuclear bombs, 9/11 and the greatest financial crisis of modern times…the media is comparing AI to all three! And so we’re back in the world of scary AI. I know, I said I wasn’t going to write about this anymore – and, I know, I have a series on water […] The

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Other

Friends Fake a Bunji Jump as a Funny Prank

1.189The website www.findjobs1.site (or simply findjobs1.site) presents itself as a platform for finding jobs or earning money from home (often linked to offers like the "Home Profit System," which p

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