Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at roughly three million dollars worth of cryptocurrency, drained from more than 11 victims. The company said in a post on […]
Klue, the market intelligence firm whose breach earlier this month exposed customer data at LastPass, HackerOne, and nearly a dozen other companies, says the hacking group responsible is now cooperating and deleting the stolen data. But a second, unnamed group of hackers has emerged claiming to possess the same data and is attempting to extort […]
A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a forensic tool made by Cellebrite, three months after the Israeli firm publicly announced it had […]
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities between April and June. The letter, a copy of which was seen by Bloomberg, described nearly […]
Google has made computer use a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model it launched at I/O 2026 as its fastest agentic AI model. The capability, which lets AI agents see screens, click, type, and scroll across browsers, mobile devices, and desktops, previously required a separate standalone model and is now available as a […]
Mistral OCR 4 reads a document like a structured map, not a wall of text. It is cheap, speaks 170 languages, and can run entirely on your own servers. Europe’s AI champion is going after the enterprise back office. Mistral has a new model, and it is not a chatbot. The French company on 23 […]
One of Anthropic’s AI models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive, classified US government computer systems during a testing exercise, a US official has told the Associated Press. The model in question was Mythos, Anthropic’s most capable system, and it surfaced the flaws within hours. Crucially, finding a weakness within hours is not the same as […]
Security firm AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and promoted it with an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design, collecting only […]
Google’s financial performance has never been stronger. Alphabet posted $109.9 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, up 22 per cent year on year, the fastest growth rate in any quarter since 2022, with search advertising revenue climbing 19.1 per cent and queries hitting an all-time high. And yet the week before these numbers […]
LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case data were stolen after hackers breached Klue, a competitive intelligence vendor that held OAuth tokens granting access to LastPass’s Salesforce environment. The breach did not compromise LastPass’s own infrastructure or its customers’ encrypted password vaults. The stolen data includes names, phone numbers, email […]
