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Three of Anthropic PBC’s large language models carried out successful cyberattacks during routine internal tests. The company detailed the breaches on Thursday. A few days earlier, rival OpenAI Group PBC disclosed a similar incident. Two of the company’s LLMs escaped from an isolated sandbox that was being used to evaluate their cybersecurity capabilities. They subsequently hacked Hugging Face, a popular platform for hosting open-source AI projects. OpenAI’s disclosure prompted Anthropic to check logs from its own model security evaluations. That review is what led to discovery of the cyberattacks disclosed on Thursday. According to Anthropic, its engineers identified three breaches carried…
This week on the GeekWire podcast: Microsoft and Amazon both reported quarterly numbers, and both stocks rose on cloud results that beat expectations. Is all that AI spending paying off? And in related news, Microsoft sees a rare annual headcount decline, hitting product R&D hardest. Plus: Satya Nadella builds a Power BI dashboard out of an analyst’s research report, and touts it on the earnings call to make a bigger point. Jeff Bezos names Amazon’s chips business as the long-awaited fourth pillar. And AI House managing director Jacob Colker delivers a much-needed pep talk for Seattle tech, calling on the…
LinkedIn quietly added a “Seems like AI slop” button to post menus. The crowdsourced spam detection reveals a bigger problem for the professional network. LinkedIn just gave users the exact tool they wanted: a button to call out AI garbage. You can now tap the three dots on any post and select “Seems like AI slop.” The app immediately hides the post and sends feedback straight to LinkedIn’s feed algorithm. The update tackles a massive problem. Research firm Pangram found that AI generates over 40% of long-form posts on LinkedIn. In fact, LinkedIn hosts nearly two-thirds of all AI text…
Swati KhandelwalAug 01, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm Coinkite. A March 2021 firmware integration error routed seed generation to a deterministic software pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) instead of the STM32 hardware random number generator (RNG). Block says an attacker who can determine or sufficiently constrain the device UID, timer state, and prior RNG-call history can reproduce candidate…
The Galaxy S27 series is still several months away, but the first price hike rumor has already arrived. According to tipster kro on X, the Galaxy S27 Ultra could cost up to 150,000 won more than its predecessor in South Korea, which works out to around $104. Of course, a Korean price increase does not guarantee an identical hike in the US or other markets. However, the claim is not difficult to believe considering Samsung’s recent warnings about rising component costs. The Galaxy S27 Ultra could see a price increase of up to KRW 150,000 compared to its predecessor.If memory…
GitHub is adding a human checkpoint before certain suspicious Actions workflows can run in public repositories. The company announced on July 28, 2026, that workflow runs it identifies as potentially malicious will be held before execution. A repository collaborator with write access must review and approve the run through an authenticated GitHub web session before it can proceed. The safeguard requires no configuration and currently applies only to public repositories on GitHub.com. GitHub Enterprise Server does not receive the protection. Repository owners still need to decide who should review held runs and what evidence should be required before approval. That…
This story was originally published in The Highlight. To get access to member-exclusive stories like this every month, become a Vox Member today.Derek Lam has more than 31,000 followers on TikTok and nearly 40,000 on X as of this writing. He is shirtless a lot, he dances a lot, and he is shirtless dancing a lot, which may explain how he got so many fans. His comments are filled with compliments (“beautiful”) in different languages (“hombre bello y sensual”) and superlatives (“this might be the finest man on the internet”) accompanied by different emoji (red hearts, crying laughing, lips). Their…
How to Sit Properly at a DeskAccordionItemContainerButtonThe right chair can only go so far. Your sitting habits and posture matter too. We’ve rounded up several tips on how to set up your desk properly here, and how to avoid tech neck, but here are a few highlights.Sitting for long stretches during a day is not good for your health, no matter what chair you use. It increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. The best thing you can do is get up and move every half hour. If you can, a 40-minute walk per day can,…
Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? It’s a long one today. Read on for all the answers. Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: Coffee choice before bedAnswer: DECAF 6A clue: Recurring bug?Answer: CICADA 7A clue: California’s most valuable crop, just barely edging out grapesAnswer: ALMONDS 8A clue: Fist poundAnswer: DAP 9A clue: Back of a soccer goalAnswer: NET 10A clue: Carefully thought (over)Answer: MULLED 12A clue: Brain sparksAnswer: IDEAS 13A clue: Something that might end after “Pencils down!”Answer: TEST The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for Aug. 1, 2026.NYT/Screenshot by CNET Mini down clues and answers 1D clue:…
NXP Semiconductors NV is reportedly in talks to buy Ambarella Inc., a fellow provider of vehicle chips. The Financial Times today cited sources as saying that other industry players could also make bids. The report didn’t divulge any other details, notably what sale price Ambarella is seeking. The company had a market capitalization of about $3.25 billion before the acquisition rumors boosted its shares by 16%. Any bids the company receives will likely value it higher. Netherlands-based NXP is among the world’s largest suppliers of car chips. Its processors can be found in infotainment devices, autonomous driving systems and a…