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‘AI is a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside’ says The Odyssey director Christopher Nolan: ‘It’s a transparent horse. It’s made of glass. Everybody can see what’s going on inside’

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The Odyssey looks set to become this summer’s big blockbuster hit, and its director, Christopher Nolan, is busy working the interview circuit. After his comments last week around AI slop and the younger generation’s rejection of the tech, the Oscar-winning filmmaker went one step further in a chat with YouTube channel HugoDécrypte – Grands formats.

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Hugging Face discloses breach linked to autonomous AI agent

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The Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository disclosed that attackers gained access to internal datasets and credentials after breaching its production infrastructure using an autonomous AI agent system. Hugging Face is an open-source AI and machine learning platform that provides access to over 45,000 models from leading AI providers and is used by more than 50,000

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Meet GigaWiper, a tricksy new malware that can wipe your PC’s storage drives squeaky clean and spy on your desktop all at once

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I run a single SSD gaming PC, which I’m aware is giving me a wonderful case of ‘single-point-of-failure-itus.’ Which is why my ears (eyes?) perked up when I read about GigaWiper, a wonderfully-named malware that can potentially do terrible things to your storage drives. Microsoft has published an analysis into GigaWiper’s capabilities, and it looks

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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

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VC Jeremy Levine has a wry solution to something that routinely annoys him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription apps. On Zoom, he is no longer “Jeremy Levine” but instead “Jeremy Levine I do not consent to transcribing or recording.” It may sound petty or brilliant, depending

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Inside the Search for “Clean” Residential Proxies for Carding

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Residential proxies are no longer treated as a simple anonymity tool in carding circles. They are increasingly discussed as one component of a broader identity-simulation stack, alongside device fingerprints, browser profiles, billing information, time zones, cookies, and transaction behavior. To better understand how criminal actors currently use and evaluate this infrastructure, Flare researchers analyzed 2,889

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HollowByte DDoS flaw bloats OpenSSL server memory with 11-byte payload

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A vulnerability dubbed HollowByte allows unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on OpenSSL servers with a malicious payload of just 11 bytes. The OpenSSL team has silently fixed the vulnerability (no identifier assigned) and backported the patch to older releases. Because the OpenSSL software is the foundational backbone for secure internet communication, organizations

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Ernst & Young discloses data breach after support system hack

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Ernst & Young is notifying customers of a data breach caused by the compromise of a third-party support ticket system used by its IT personnel. According to the company, support tickets submitted through the platform may have included documents containing client tax information. Ernst & Young (EY) is among the world’s four largest auditing and

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Abbott probes two cyber incidents amid extortion claims

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Abbott Laboratories is investigating two separate cybersecurity incidents after confirming unauthorized access to internal legacy Exact Sciences systems in its Cancer Diagnostics business, while also investigating a separate claim that attackers breached its LabCentral portal and stole company data. The company confirmed the Cancer Diagnostics incident after the ShinyHunters extortion gang added Abbott to its

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