An academic at the Australian National University has accused it of a “hysterical” response to students using AI to cheat, as tertiary institutions rush to shore up the credibility of assessments. But a colleague warned Australia is in danger of “shipping our national intellectual capability” to companies in California and China if educational rigour is...Read More

In recent weeks, SentinelOne announced an expansion of its AI security portfolio, adding capabilities to secure AI applications and agentic AI systems across their lifecycle, including AI Security, Purple AI, AI SIEM and cloud security tools to detect threats, automate security operations and protect AI workloads. This push into securing AI agents positions SentinelOne as...Read More

A security weakness in Anthropic’s Claude for Chrome extension could allow another malicious browser extension to activate predefined AI workflows without a genuine user click, potentially exposing information held in Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar or initiating actions in services such as Salesforce. The issue was discovered by Manifold Security researcher Ax Sharma, who...Read More

CrowdStrike and Schwarz Digits recently expanded their partnership to deliver the AI-native Falcon cybersecurity platform on STACKIT, a sovereign EU cloud, while CrowdStrike also agreed to acquire XM Cyber’s intellectual property and appointed former Splunk Security executive AJ Shipley as Chief Product Officer. These moves, alongside Frost & Sullivan naming CrowdStrike the 2026 Global Company...Read More

When Harris County, Texas, launched its innovation lab in 2024, the goal was to explore emerging technologies and identify practical uses for AI. Now, the lab is a pipeline for evaluating and implementing projects that can improve county services. The lab is one component of how the county approaches artificial intelligence adoption. Harris County has...Read More

Ledger SAS has launched Ledger Agent Stack, an open-source toolkit designed to enable developers to build artificial intelligence agents capable of reading balances and drafting crypto transactions without the ability to move funds without human authorization on hardware, as reported by Silicon Angle.The Ledger Agent Stack ensures that sensitive actions require confirmation on a Ledger...Read More

Tech executives terrified of the public backlash against AI are beefing up their security as violent threats spill over into the real world. The Wall Street Journal reports that some executives are so nervous that they are traveling with armed guards while maintaining a low profile. It follows two incidents this year. A 20-year-old man...Read More

Google Cloud has outlined an AI security strategy built around combining its Gemini models with Wiz, CodeMender and Mandiant in a single threat-defence platform. The approach is intended to give defenders an advantage through deeper operational context. Francis deSouza, Chief Operating Officer of Google Cloud and President of Security Products, set out the case as...Read More

As outlined in Biometric Update, Reken has emerged from stealth after two years of development with an AI security platform designed to analyze communications directly on users’ devices. The platform aims to combat sophisticated social engineering attacks, including phishing, impersonation, and business email compromise, which are increasingly difficult to detect with the rise of generative...Read More

0 SoftBank’s “Patching as a Service” targets 3,000 government-designated companies In sum – what we know: A national-scale rollout – SoftBank is offering its OpenAI-based “Patching as a Service” to roughly 3,000 Japanese companies the government has certified as critical infrastructure operators. Agentic, not automatic – Semi-autonomous agents continuously scan, prioritize, and propose remediation plans, but the...Read More