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Slop or Not
Product showcase: Is this image real? Slop or Not investigates

Slop or Not is an AI text and image detector for iPhone and Mac that runs entirely offline, with no account required. It uses on-device AI models powered by the Apple Neural …

identity
AI deployments are stretching enterprise security to its limits

CISOs and CTOs expect AI deployments to increase their organizations’ attack surface by an average of 14% over the next year. Nearly all lack visibility into AI …

OpenAI
GPT-5.6-Cyber refuses security researchers’ requests far less often

GPT-5.6-Cyber is a new OpenAI model built on GPT-5.6 Sol, trained to find zero-day vulnerabilities and build exploit chains, with fewer refusals on higher-risk, dual-use work. …

question
Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization?

The recent news coverage of “rogue AI” systems hacking innocent companies reminded me of one of the world’s most unsung heroes and genuinely someone who may well have saved …

network
An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University turned a set of AI agents loose on the software that runs 4G and 5G phone networks, and the agents came back with 84 security …

OpenAI
Your security vendor gets the frontier cyber model, you get the findings

Selected red team specialists can now use OpenAI’s cyber models to find and exploit weaknesses in client applications and infrastructure. Those clients never get the …

Claude
Anthropic to put AI in charge of reviewing Claude Code actions by default

Anthropic will make auto mode in Claude Code the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14. Users who previously selected a different default may …

OpenAI
OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities

OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot …

OpenAI
OpenAI drops ChatGPT text chat limits for free users, adds new safeguards for teens

OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol, the model behind ChatGPT for Plus and Pro subscribers, and pushed a new model, GPT-5.6 Luna, out to everyone using the free tier. The company …

Edwin Weijdema
What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like

In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the first year of enforcement might bring. …

ShieldFont
ShieldFont fights AI scraping by handing crawlers the wrong words

Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s source code. A person reading in a …

Keys
Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken

Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a …

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