Google’s July 2026 Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber targets lower-cost vulnerability finding, running via CodeMender where it can be called multiple times at high speed and low cost. On CyberGym it showed “competitive performance” up to 5 invocations; on V8 it confirmed 55 issues vs 47 (Gemini 3.5 Flash) and 36 (Opus 4.6), including 10 no other model found.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. will review Chinese open source AI models for IP theft and could sanction firms if confirmed, per Bloomberg. He cited Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and the distillation debate, which Satya Nadella says is often mislabeled as theft.
A security flaw in an aftermarket car alarm installed in more than 2 million vehicles across the United States allows hackers to remotely unlock cars, track them, disable their ignitions, and leave…
Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned, the agency confirmed to multiple news outlets in July 2026. His departure marks the third leadership change…
LG UltraGear monitors auto-trigger silent Windows 11 installs of LG driver updates and the “LG Monitor App Installer” with no permission prompt, then display bottom-right McAfee promos. Gamers Nexus documented this in July 2026 on 31/32 bootups; Microsoft Store pairing installs without user notification.
Edinburgh-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware disclosed on Monday, July 20, 2026, that hackers stole a “significant volume” of customer data from its systems in a cyberattack that is…
Hackers are exploiting two critical WordPress flaws in the wild as of Mon, July 21, 2026, after patches shipped last week. The issues hit WP 6.9.0–6.9.4 and 7.0.0–7.0.1; Searchlight Cyber’s Adam Kues dubbed one WP2Shell, and Daniel Card estimates <15% still vulnerable (~90M sites).
Hugging Face, the platform that hosts AI models and datasets, disclosed last Friday that a cyberattack compromised its internal datasets and service credentials. The company said it is still…
Two of China’s leading AI companies, Moonshot AI and Alibaba, unveiled major new models in July 2026 that they claim rival the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic — and plan to release them…
A nonprofit called Current AI is working to build publicly accessible AI infrastructure modeled on the early World Wide Web — free, open, and available to anyone. The organization, founded in…
DOJ told executive-branch employees they may download TikTok onto government devices again, reversing the 2022 ban, in a July 2026 memo (Reuters), subject to agency discretion and workplace policies. The change hinges on U.S. operations moving to an Oracle–Silver Lake–MGX joint venture, with Oracle as security partner and ByteDance retaining 19.9%.
Mozilla’s July 2026 audit says astrology period tracker Stardust sends users’ reproductive health data (birth control, pregnancy status, moods, symptoms) to third parties immediately on app open, including RudderStack with a persistent ID and Facebook ad identifiers; it scored 2/10. Nonprofit Euki scored 10/10 by keeping data on-device.
