Anthropic just announced it built an AI model so capable of finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities that releasing it to the public would be — their words — potentially catastrophic for “economies, public safety, and national security.” The model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of high-severity security flaws during testing. Not…
Category: Cybersecurity
AI
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Wegmans, Facial Recognition, and the Feeling You Can’t Shake
I should say this up front, because it matters. I love Wegmans. My wife’s family in Rochester introduced us to it in the early ’90s, back when it was still something you had to explain to people. Wide aisles. Food that didn’t feel like an afterthought. A store that seemed,…
Crime
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Your Cheap Home Camera Might Be Watching You… and Someone Else Might Be Watching Too
Every once in a while a story comes along that makes you stop and think, Wow… we’ve crossed a line we can’t uncross. This is one of those stories. South Korean police arrested four people for hacking more than 120,000 home and business cameras. That number itself is disturbing. What…
Cybersecurity
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Japan Faces Its Darkest Hour: Running Out of Asahi Super Dry
Forget recessions, inflation, or political scandals — Japan now faces a national crisis that truly cuts to the bone: the country could run out of Asahi Super Dry within days. That’s right, a cyberattack has crippled Asahi’s order and delivery systems, leaving its 30 factories in beer lockdown. For context,…