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Ravie LakshmananJul 30, 2026Malvertising / Cryptocurrency Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of the long-running Contagious Interview campaign. The defining aspect of the attack is that bogus macOS software update screen stealthily copies an attack command to the clipboard and then prompts the victim to execute it via the Terminal app, a known technique referred to as ClickFix. “The experience is designed to induce panic,” AllSecure said…
Google DeepMind just brought sci-fi robots closer to reality, and it is very exciting. Building on its original Gemini Robotics model, the company has introduced Gemini Robotics 2, an AI system designed to help robots think, move, and even work together. Unlike most robots today, which rely on pre-programmed routines or someone controlling them remotely, this new system lets robots figure things out on their own when situations get unpredictable. Can robots finally handle whole-body tasks? Until now, Google’s robotics models mostly handled tabletop tasks using a robot’s upper body. Gemini Robotics 2 changes that by controlling the entire humanoid,…
Seven of nine image-editing tools tested on Hugging Face produced sexualized alterations of a woman’s photograph after receiving a straightforward prompt. The July 28 findings expose an enterprise governance gap: A public AI platform, model publisher, application developer and inference provider may all be different parties. The research does not show that every Hugging Face model is unsafe, and Hugging Face did not develop all the tools examined. It shows why approving a familiar platform is not the same as reviewing the individual model, application and safeguards an organization plans to deploy. Simple prompts exposed missing safeguards The European nonprofit…
(Wizards of the Coast press image) This year’s Gen Con is being held in Indianapolis July 30 through Aug. 2. In advance of the show, one of the biggest events on the calendar for North America’s tabletop gaming community, Wizards of the Coast invited press to take an early look at its scheduled announcements for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Wizards, headquartered in Renton, Wash., has published D&D since 1997, and has presided over the game’s meteoric rise in the last decade. Despite renewed competition and several unforced errors, D&D remains the single most popular game in the tabletop…
Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems. Awarded jointly by the Bavarian State Government and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, it is the most highly endowed award for technology and engineering in Germany. Rus accepted the prize on July 23 at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence.The selection committee cited four strands of her work: self-organizing robot collectives, soft robotics, autonomous mobility, and brain-inspired artificial intelligence. Together…
This week, the US Federal Communications Commission banned the import of foreign-made advanced mobile robots. Humanoid and quadruped robots are specifically named, indicating the true target is robotic versions of people and animals, but something else happens to be an “advanced mobile robot”: robot vacuums.So what does this ban mean? Though it’s effective immediately, nothing changes for now. Robot vacuums won’t get removed from the market, and your current robot vacuum won’t stop working. The ban will instead stop new models from getting FCC approval to be sold in the United States. The vacuums available now won’t be affected, but…
Spotify has been ambitious with its use of artificial intelligence to enhance its music platform. In the past couple of years, the company has gone from using AI behind the scenes to putting it front and center. This move has allowed it to transform how listeners discover music, interact with content, and even create their own music.
AI is the hottest thing in medical care right now — but many of us feel trepidation about it. Just one illustrative public survey sample: An October 2025 KFF poll found just 8 percent of Americans reported feeling a “great deal” of trust in AI managing their appointments or analyzing their health records, and only 32 percent said they would trust an online health tool that uses AI to access their medical records to provide personalized health information.But many clinicians and healthcare administrators see AI as a powerful new tool that offers myriad opportunities to streamline and improve treatment. A…
The momentum behind voice artificial intelligence is accelerating with Smallest.ai becoming the latest startup in this emerging niche to secure more funding. Officially known as Smallest Inc., it said today it has closed on a $13 million Series A investment led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, which were the main backers in its $8 million seed funding round in October. The round brings Smallest.ai’s total amount raised to date to over $21 million. Even more importantly, it chose the occasion to debut a new asynchronous speech-to-speech model called Hydra that’s based on its most advanced…
Customer personally identifiable information is the most frequently targeted data type, present in 53% of 2025 breaches per IBM’s research. Beyond PII, attackers target intellectual property, trade secrets, financial records, and corporate data that can be sold, used for competitive intelligence, or leveraged for extortion. Healthcare organizations face the highest per-breach costs because patient records combine regulatory sensitivity with high resale value. The more valuable and sensitive the data, the more aggressively and persistently it gets targeted across cloud storage services and cloud infrastructure.