Anthropic said this week that the debut of its new Claude Mythos Preview model marks a critical juncture in the evolution of cybersecurity, representing an unprecedented existential threat to existing software defense strategies. So, is it more AI hype—or a true turning point? According to Anthropic, Mythos Preview crosses a threshold of capabilities to discover...Read More
When cybersecurity incidents occur, the immediate instinct is to blame hackers. Headlines often reinforce this narrative, depicting shadowy actors exploiting systems and stealing data. However, in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, this framing misses the real issue. Africa’s cybersecurity problem is not fundamentally about hackers. It is about systems, structures, and decisions that create vulnerabilities...Read More
HAMPTON ROADS — The annual Drive Safe Hampton Roads “Old, Used, Borrowed and Abused Child Safety Seat Round-Up” program kicked off Feb. 1. DSHR notes that for over 35 years, it has joined forces with community partners to collect old, used and potentially unsafe child safety seats. The program also serves to educate parents and...Read More
There are better sources of parenting advice than tech billionaires, but we definitely should pay heed to how few of them let their children use their products. Steve Jobs famously would not let his own kids have tablets. YouTube co-founder Steve Chen doesn’t want his children watching short-form content. Snap chief executive Evan Spiegel limits...Read More
VRAM usage has become an increasingly unavoidable issue in games as they grow more graphically intensive over time. Pushing the visual fidelity requires more assets to be stored in VRAM, which makes it harder for cards with 8GB (or less) memory to run games smoothly. For Linux at least, Natalie Vock has just proposed a...Read More
58 minutes ago News Duration 2:42 Liberal members voted in favour of restricting young Canadians’ access to social media platforms and artificial intelligence chatbots at the party’s national convention in Montreal this weekend. Members voted on 24 policy pitches on a range of topics, including how to address the impact social media and AI chatbots...Read More
Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › The attack on the OpenAI CEO’s home highlights the growing tensions surrounding the rapid advancement of AI technology and the need for the industry to prioritize safety and security.San Francisco Today A 20-year-old suspect was arrested after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI...Read More
Close to 5,000 member hospitals can now access a vetted breach recovery playbook to keep care running. The American Hospital Association has named Rubrik as a Preferred Cybersecurity Provider. Rubrik, a security and AI operations company, offers cyber resilience and data protection tools, ransomware training and financial risk analysis to nearly 5,000 AHA member hospitals....Read More
At the moment, governments in more than a dozen countries are trying to limit minors’ access to social media. These include France, New Zealand, Norway, Malaysia, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom. Germany is also considering taking action. Australia became the first country in the world to introduce social media bans for users under the age...Read More
Rockstar confirmed on Saturday that some of its data was compromised in a breach of a third-party provider. The group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying it had gained access to the company’s Snowflake instances (a cloud-hosting provider popular with enterprise customers) via Anodot, a cost-monitoring and analytics service. The group is demanding a ransom by April...Read More
