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The ShinyHunters extortion group says it used a new Oracle PeopleSoft remote code execution vulnerability to breach FBI systems Monday night, stealing data on employees and job applicants — and is now using the same unpatched flaw against private-sector companies.
Following GPT-6 Astra earlier this month, OpenAI is adding two more cost-efficient models — Sol for mid-range work and Luna for lightweight tasks — both 50% cheaper than their GPT-5.6 counterparts.
Anthropic's new flagship model matches Claude Fable 5.1 performance on most tasks while costing 40% less to run and scoring the highest marks ever on the company's automated behavioral audit.
Days after Mark Zuckerberg called Muse "built from the ground up for privacy and security," researcher Patrick Wardle found a flaw letting local apps — and a simple trick — hijack the agent's authentication token.
Qualcomm unveiled two new flagship mobile platforms at its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, Hawaii: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the more powerful Gen 6 Pro, both built on TSMC's 2nm process.
Google's new Googlebook platform merges Android and ChromeOS into a premium laptop experience starting at $899, with devices from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo launching October 4.
A second lawsuit filed September 18 argues Suno's v6 model, though trained on licensed music, was built on outputs of earlier models the labels say infringed 60,202 recordings — a claim carrying up to $9 billion in theoretical damages.
A single control gate entangled four qubits in a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center in 14.8 microseconds with higher fidelity than the conventional sequential method, by turning unwanted crosstalk into a feature.
A proposed class-action antitrust lawsuit argues that the four AI labs' public agreement to slow frontier development, triggered by Dario Amodei's September 12 essay, amounts to illegal coordination between competitors.
CXMT began mass production of its G5 DRAM platform at 11.95nm via SAQP, claiming parity with industry leaders and shipping 24Gb LPDDR5X chips in flagship Chinese smartphones.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent outlined a mutual alert mechanism for AI incidents with national security implications after Sunday talks in New York, ahead of a Trump-Xi summit on Thursday.
A hacker collective physically extracted a Flock Safety license-plate camera's internal storage, revealing it runs unpatched Android 8.1 from 2018, a hardcoded API key exposing every camera on the network, and an encryption key stored unencrypted next to the data it protects.