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verifying AI model lineage
Cisco releases open-source toolkit for verifying AI model lineage

Enterprises pulling models from Hugging Face and other open repositories rarely keep records of how those models are altered after download, leaving organizations with little …

surveillance
Met Police face criticism for using AI to spy on their own officers

London police officers have been warned by the Metropolitan Police Federation to watch their backs after the force deployed controversial AI software to investigate …

Linux
Nine-year-old Linux kernel flaw enables reliable local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-31431)

Security researchers at Theori have disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-31431) in the Linux kernel. The flaw, nicknamed …

trucks
Researchers develop tool to expose GPS signal spoofing in transit networks

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a portable detector that identifies GPS spoofing in real time, including during motion, to help protect transportation …

Proxmox
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 arrives with S3 storage support and parallel sync jobs

Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 is a maintenance and feature update built on Debian 13.4 “Trixie” that adds S3-compatible object storage as a supported backend and …

Prison
Hackers arrested for stealing and reselling 600,000 Roblox accounts

Ukrainian police detained three suspects accused of hacking into Roblox accounts and reselling the data on Russian websites, with payments made in cryptocurrency. Police raid …

LLM red teaming
Automated LLM red teaming gets a learning layer

Automated red teaming of large language models has settled into a familiar pattern over the past two years. An attacker model generates jailbreak attempts against a target …

bots
Bad bots make up 40% of internet traffic

The normalization of AI and automation within internet infrastructure is changing how organizations interpret traffic. Activity that once appeared anomalous is now treated as …

Warp
Warp open sources its AI terminal client

Warp, the AI-centric terminal used by close to a million developers, has released the source code for its client on GitHub under the AGPL license, with OpenAI signed on as the …

Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code 1.118 adds auto model selection to Copilot CLI

Microsoft’s editor releases continue on a monthly cadence, with the Insiders build of Visual Studio Code 1.118. The update concentrates on the Copilot CLI integration, …

lock
Police bust scam call centres behind €50 million in fraud losses

Authorities have dismantled a cybercrime ring running call centres in Albania and defrauding victims of more than €50 million, arresting 10 suspects and seizing nearly …

OpenAI
Time to keep up with AI-driven attacks is narrowing, OpenAI says

OpenAI is outlining a plan to expand access to advanced AI tools for cybersecurity defenders, warning that attackers are already using the technology to scale operations. In …

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