Tag: data-security
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OpenAI’s Superalignment Bet: Inside the 20% Compute Strategy to Control Superintelligent AI
OpenAI’s decision to dedicate a substantial portion of its infrastructure to “superalignment” marks a turning point in how frontier AI companies frame risk, governance, and product strategy. Rather than treating safety as a downstream layer added after deployment, OpenAI is explicitly positioning alignment of superintelligent systems as a core R&D priority on par with model…
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China’s Photonic Chip Could Rewrite the AI Hardware Playbook—Here’s Why
China’s latest move in AI hardware is not another GPU, accelerator card, or custom ASIC. It is a photonic chip built on a 6‑inch thin‑film lithium niobate (TFLN) wafer, developed by CHIPX and Turing Quantum, and it is already running inside production data centers in China. The team claims up to 1,000× acceleration for specific…
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AI in 2026: Agentic Systems, Cloud Intelligence, and the Next Wave of Enterprise Transformation
Artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to large-scale production, and the next two to three years will define how enterprises compete, automate, and innovate. By 2026, AI will be less about standalone models and more about composable, agentic systems tightly integrated with cloud, automation, and an emerging layer of physical and quantum capabilities. Organizations that…
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The $1 Million Password: How One Infostealer Campaign Exposed the Gap Between Enterprise Security Rhetoric and Reality
One criminal leveraged old stolen passwords and a lack of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to quietly breach roughly 50 large enterprises—showcasing that the weakest link in cloud security is not technology, but basic governance and accountability. This campaign, run by a threat actor known as Zestix or Sentap, is a case study in how organizations can…
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Years of Silence: How Chinese Spies Infiltrated America’s Communications and Congress
Chinese state-linked hackers from the group known as Salt Typhoon have spent years quietly burrowing into the digital backbone of U.S. power—from telecommunications carriers and data centers to the email systems of congressional staff on the most sensitive House committees. The recently disclosed breach of House email accounts is not an isolated incident but the…
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Playing Checkers While China Builds Chess: How the U.S.–China Race in Chips and AI Is Rewriting the Global Tech Order
U.S.–China competition in chips, AI, and advanced manufacturing is crystallizing into a long-term structural race: the United States holds a widening hardware and fabrication lead, while China is choosing to sacrifice performance for sovereignty, betting that domestic capacity and energy advantages will eventually erode Washington’s leverage. The Trump administration’s decision to approve exports of Nvidia’s…
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A Silent Exposure: How Illinois’ Human Services Agency Left 700,000 Residents’ Health Data Public for Years
Illinois’ largest human services agency left sensitive health-related data for nearly 700,000 people exposed on the open internet for years—then waited more than 100 days after discovering the problem to tell anyone. The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) now faces questions that go far beyond a single misconfiguration. The breach, disclosed publicly in early…
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The Ransomware Paradox: How 8,000 Attacks, State Hacks, and a 700,000-Record Breach Redefined Cyber Risk in 2025
Ransomware in 2025 reached a historic paradox: law enforcement notched some of its biggest victories against cybercriminals, yet the world endured more attacks, more disruption, and more victims than ever before. Instead of killing ransomware, the takedowns helped transform it—away from a few powerful “brands” and toward a fragmented, industrial-scale ecosystem that is harder to…
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The April Gambit: Why Trump’s Beijing Visit Could Decide Whether AI Becomes a Weapon or a Tool
Trump’s planned April 2026 visit to Beijing is not just another high‑stakes summit between the world’s two most powerful leaders. It is emerging as a turning point that will help determine whether artificial intelligence (AI) becomes primarily a weapon of strategic competition or a tool embedded in shared safety norms and crisis protocols. For all…
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How One Access Broker Quietly Breached Dozens of Global Enterprises—And Exposed the Limits of Traditional Security
A single criminal operating under the aliases Zestix and Sentap has quietly breached dozens of major global enterprises not by exploiting advanced zero‑day vulnerabilities, but by doing something far simpler: logging in with valid usernames and passwords stolen from employees’ own devices. This campaign exposes a fundamental weakness in modern corporate security strategies—an overreliance on…
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US, EU and UK Diverge on Tech Regulation as States and Sector Rules Race Ahead of Federal Law
The United States, European Union, and United Kingdom are no longer drifting but decisively diverging in how they regulate technology and artificial intelligence. That divergence is reshaping compliance, competition, and even geopolitics, as Brussels doubles down on rule‑heavy oversight, London markets “pro‑innovation” flexibility, and Washington relies on sector regulators while political tensions with Europe escalate.…
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Racing Against the AI Clock: How the Pentagon Is Automating Its Cybersecurity Fortress
The Pentagon is racing to secure an AI‑enabled military at the same speed that new AI threats emerge. To break out of a human‑limited, episodic testing model, the Department of Defense (DOD) is moving from traditional red‑team exercises to autonomous purple‑team operations—AI systems that continuously attack, defend, and validate the security of battlefield and enterprise…
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As Iran Erupts, the Trump Administration Quietly Weighs Military Options
The Trump administration has quietly opened preliminary discussions on potential military strikes against Iran, even as the country is convulsed by the most sustained anti-regime protests in decades. The deliberations underscore how domestic unrest in Iran is intersecting with a more confrontational U.S. posture, raising profound questions about the future of the Islamic Republic and…
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Britain’s £200 Million Bet on Peace in Ukraine: Deterrence, Diplomacy, and the Making of a Multinational Force
Britain’s £200 Million Bet on a Future Peace in Ukraine How London Is Preparing to Lead a Post‑Ceasefire Force – and What It Really Signals The United Kingdom’s decision to allocate £200 million from its core defence budget to prepare troops for a possible deployment to Ukraine is more than a narrow budgeting move. It…
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The Illusion of Control: Why Siri Still Uses Cellular Data After You Turn It Off
The short answer is that turning off Siri in Settings only disables how you interact with Siri, not the underlying intelligence services that support search, suggestions, and other “smart” features across iOS. Those services continue to run as part of the operating system, and because they are treated as system services, they can still use…
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X turns Grok’s abusive deepfakes into a “premium” feature – and forces a global reckoning over AI accountability
X’s decision to restrict Grok’s image editing to paying users is less a safety fix than a flashpoint in a growing global backlash against AI-fuelled image-based abuse. Regulators and governments across multiple continents are now testing how far they can go to hold a Musk-owned platform to account and, in the process, expose deep gaps…
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Coal Consumption in Europe at Scale: A Continent in Managed Decline
Coal consumption in Europe is falling rapidly in both absolute and relative terms, but it remains highly concentrated in a few countries and still plays a strategic—if diminishing—role in the continent’s energy system. The European Union’s coal story is, above all, a story of scale and decline. At its peak around the late 1990s and…
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Bitcoin Is No Longer the Dark Web’s King: How Stablecoins Turned into a $154 Billion Crypto Nightmare
Stablecoins have quietly dethroned Bitcoin as the currency of choice for the dark web, transforming the way illicit actors move money online—and creating a $154 billion regulatory nightmare that now overlaps with the same rails powering remittances, trading, and everyday payments. At the center of this shift is a paradox: the very attributes that make…
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Damn Vulnerable AI Bank (DVAIB): Inside the New Training Ground for AI Security in Finance
Damn Vulnerable AI Bank (DVAIB) is an intentionally insecure AI-powered banking environment designed as a hands‑on lab for attacking and defending AI systems in financial scenarios. It gives security teams, red‑teamers, and developers a realistic sandbox to practice prompt injection, AI supply‑chain attacks, data poisoning, and broader AI‑driven fraud techniques—before those attacks hit real banks.…
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The Quiet Engineering Revolution: How Replit’s Vibe Coding Lets CEOs Build and Engineers Scale
AI has quietly flipped the hierarchy in software development: with “vibe coding” on platforms like Replit, CEOs and product leaders can now prototype working software themselves, while engineers shift toward scaling and hard technical problems instead of being gatekeepers to execution. What looks like a UX upgrade in developer tools is, in practice, an organizational…