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cloud security
Google plans to give Private AI Compute a memory that follows users across devices

Google plans to add private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute, enabling AI assistants to maintain continuity across devices while providing privacy protections …

iOS 27
Apple’s new iOS 27 feature looks for signs you’re being scammed

Apple introduced a scam-prevention feature called Impersonation Risk Detection with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. The feature allows supported apps to request a risk assessment when a …

Claude
Claude.ai is about 3x faster after 3,000+ changes

Anthropic engineers made claude.ai and the Claude desktop app roughly three times faster during a two-week sprint in August, with Claude finding the bottlenecks and writing …

critical infrastructure
Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator?

By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic …

Ubuntu
Ubuntu kernel CVE fixes are moving to a weekly release schedule

Ubuntu kernels will ship every week under a new release schedule from Canonical, which is merging its four-week cycle for regular Stable Release Updates (SRUs) and its …

Europe
Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. …

Data center
Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative

American attitudes toward data centers have turned noticeably more negative over the course of 2026, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 54% of U.S. adults now say …

OpenAI
GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive with 50% lower API prices

OpenAI has expanded GPT-6 with the GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models. Both are available in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users. Free and …

Claude
Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI

Claude Opus 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can access it through the Claude Platform using …

Prismor
Prismor: Open-source runtime control plane for AI agents

Prismor is a free, open-source security layer for AI coding agents. It sits between an agent such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and the actions that agent wants to take, …

Savi Scamwise
Product showcase: Scamwise checks the red flags before you take the bait

Scamwise is a free scam-checking service from Savi that examines suspicious messages, emails, websites, phone numbers, images, and real-world situations for signs of fraud. …

bots
Nearly two-thirds of tested websites fail every bot test

Malicious bot activity increased 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, compared with 13.2% growth in human traffic. Traffic from AI agents and large language model crawlers …

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