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Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Deploying Ransomware Himself

2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (294+ words) Published Apr 26, 2026 12: 45 PM EDT When a person or company is hit with a ransomware attack, it's common to hire a third-party negotiator who specializes in handling the back-and-forth with the cybercriminals. In an ideal scenario, the negotiator will fight as…...

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Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (412+ words) Published Apr 25, 2026 11: 15 AM EDT There's a new link in the food chain of tech startups. Founders are realizing that they can make an extra buck by selling off the digital remains of their dead companies in the form of their…...

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Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic's Dangerous New Mythos AI

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (220+ words) Published Apr 22, 2026 4: 27 PM EDT Remember Claude Mythos, Anthropic's new AI model that it hyped as being so powerful that it was too dangerous to release to the public? Well, it's already been broken into, according to new reporting from Bloomberg....

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Trump's Deportation Airline Just Got Hacked by Anonymous

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (384+ words) Published May 6, 2025 5: 36 PM EDT If the Trump administration won't listen to federal judges, maybe they'll listen to Anonymous. As first reported by 404 Media, an Anonymous hacker defaced Global X's website, leaving a message alongside an image of the group's traditional…...

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AI Seizes Top Spot on Leaderboard for White Hat Hackers

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (341+ words) Published Jul 4, 2025 6: 45 AM EDT For the first time ever, an AI model has seized the top spot on a white hat hacking leaderboard. In a blog post, the cybersecurity firm'Xbow'boasted about its historic rise to the top of the Hacker…...

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Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious "Tamagotchi" Feature Into It

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (429+ words) Published Apr 1, 2026 2: 14 PM EDT After Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to its blockbuster Claude chatbot, netizens swiftly pounced to start plowing through its more than 512, 000 lines of code " and have uncovered numerous curiosities sprinkled throughout." In an extensive thread…...

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AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (460+ words) Published Mar 2, 2026 5: 01 PM EST It's no secret that AI models have come a long way, from tools that can complete high school students' homework to "vibe coding" assistants that can build entire apps in a fraction of the time it…...

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AI Data Center Security Guards Are Not Human

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (293+ words) Published Mar 16, 2026 3: 01 PM EDT As AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into buildouts of data centers, they're looking for ways to keep their sprawling facilities secured around the clock " without having to pay a salary or…...

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Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (383+ words) Published Mar 26, 2026 3: 04 PM EDT Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic's AI Claude, protestors have rallied around the company's headquarters to call for a complete stop to AI development. Last weekend, nearly 200 protestors with the…...

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futurism. com > artificial-intelligence > universal-jailbreak-ai-poems

Scientists Discover "Universal" Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (584+ words) Published Nov 23, 2025 6: 45 AM EST And now, in the growing canon of absurd ways of duping AIs into going off the rails, we have a new entry. A team of researchers from the AI safety group DEXAI and the Sapienza University…...