Anthropic has announced plans to embed machine-readable watermarks and provenance metadata into content generated by its Claude AI models, citing compliance with European AI transparency rules as the…
A Security found a Zoom screen-sharing bug that could let any call participant silently take over another device with no victim interaction, tied to real-time annotation protocol handling. Zoom’s Aug 11, 2026 advisory says fixes roll out to Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android; A Security’s exploit took fewer than 20 prompts.
The FBI is investigating how a North Korean national was hired to work for a U.S. federal government agency, according to a senior FBI official who spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C. on July…
OpenAI’s Aug 2026 Daybreak adds Blue and Red tiers: Blue targets incident response, malware analysis and patch validation; Red broadens to security testing and vulnerability research. GPT‑5.6‑Cyber, built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, is available only in Red and is limited to trusted partners like Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike and Cloudflare.
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for thousands of lawsuits against major social media companies to proceed, after rejecting the platforms’ attempt to use a legal shield to dismiss the…
Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10, 2026, an open-weight AI model built to run autonomous agents directly on consumer hardware, offering the clearest indication yet of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Security research says Klaviyo’s sign-up form misconfiguration exposed new customers’ email addresses and passwords—and company details—to third-party “pixels” from Facebook, Google, HubSpot, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and X. The issue ran at least Feb 2024–Nov 2025; Klaviyo fixed it and says fewer than 200 people were affected.
Valve told European Steam hardware customers that CEVA Logistics’ breach (July 29–Aug 1, 2026) may have exposed names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails stored for up to 90 days, but not payment, passwords, or Steam Guard codes. Valve warns to expect phishing messages asking to confirm deliveries, pay fees, or “verify” orders—treat them as fake.
Anthropic is switching Claude Code’s auto mode on by default for Pro, Max, and Team account holders, with the change taking effect on August 14, 2026. The move reduces the number of manual approval…
Google revamped hacking-group naming in July 2026, replacing the numbered APT scheme with two-word labels to make tracking its 5,000+ activity clusters easier. The first word is random; the second’s initial marks country (Castle=China, Ion=Iran, Neptune=North Korea, Relic=Russia), unifying Google TAG and Mandiant.
Flock Safety’s sales deck for Georgia’s AG (Aug.) pitched a Nexar deal to use Uber/Lyft and delivery dashcams for plate data from moving cars, covering 350,000 devices. Flock says it wasn’t finalized; the deck shows no driver notification, and Nexar was breached in September with terabytes of video exposed.
WhatsApp began rolling out a new update on August 4, 2026, adding several group chat features including an @all mention tag, anonymous polling options, and a faster way to create smaller groups from…
