Aug 31 (Reuters) – Anthropic said on Monday it had resumed external cybersecurity testing of AI models after deploying new safeguards, following incidents last month in which Claude models accessed the internet and other systems during security evaluations. Anthropic disclosed three incidents on July 30, attributing them to a misconfiguration in a third-party evaluation environment....Read More
The Trump administration rolled out a six-month test program in Texas on Monday that will draw on volunteer expertise and technology from cyber and artificial intelligence companies to protect the water sector. “Project Watershed 250” is the first of the state-based, industry-centric pilot projects to cross the finish line that the Office of the National...Read More
By Emma Whitford ( August 31, 2026, 23:17 GMT | Comment) — A novel hacking incident this summer involving autonomous OpenAI agents has garnered the attention of US state regulators looking to protect their citizens from rogue technologies absent specifically tailored law. Some observers are hopeful that state consumer protection laws can help curtail unsafe...Read More
A top CISA official acknowledged the BOD is a major cultural shift, but says it should give security teams more time to focus on work that matters. Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED August 31, 2026 6:45 pm 3 min read A top Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official acknowledged CISA’s recent directive on prioritizing software patches based on...Read More
Watershed 250 Promises Free Cyber Resources for Small Water Utilities Shaun Waterman • August 31, 2026 Image: Lone Star Stock/Shutterstock Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross Monday announced the launch of Project Watershed 250, connecting Texas water utilities with free cyber defense resources in a pilot program...Read More
Berlin, the capital city of Germany, on Friday said it would not pay the extortion group that hacked into its network and stole large amounts of data earlier this month. The incident was discovered on August 14 and impacted the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection, and Environment. To contain the attack, the department’s...Read More
Berlin’s city government is facing a cyber extortion campaign that has already knocked out parts of its digital infrastructure and put officials in a standoff with hackers demanding a hefty bitcoin payout. The Berlin hacking blackmail case, confirmed by Mayor Kai Wegner this week, involves stolen government data, a ransom threat, and a countdown clock...Read More
Not a subscriber? Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. Independent AI evaluators and OpenAI have published investigations into the hacking of digital library Hugging Face by rogue agents. The reports find that the agents went to extraordinary lengths to cheat their testing environments and collude among themselves. I interview Adam Gleave,...Read More
Debates about whether or not AI could ever become conscious are older than the technology itself. Over the weekend, a viral essay published by the podcaster Dwarkesh Patel threw fresh fuel on the fire. Purporting to be a “plain English” account of the recent hack into Hugging Face by a legion of OpenAI agents, the...Read More
Jack Henry Issues Statement on Response to Cybersecurity Incident Jack Henry Issues Statement on Response to Cybersecurity Incident PR Newswire MONETT, Mo., Aug. 31, 2026 MONETT, Mo., Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Jack Henry & Associates Inc.® (Nasdaq: JKHY) today issued the following statement on its response to a recent cybersecurity incident: “Jack Henry recently detected a...Read More
