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TNW | Data-security
thenextweb.com > news > wechat-worm-ai-calif-tencent-zero-click

AI helped build a WeChat worm that spreads with one call

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1129+ words) Security firm Calif says AI helped it find a WeChat calling flaw and build a WeChat worm that hijacks accounts before anyone answers. Tencent says it has fixed the flaw and has no reason to believe users were affected. It…...

TNW | Legal
thenextweb.com > news > hawley-senate-probe-openai-hugging-face-16-questions

A Republican senator is now investigating OpenAI over the Hugging Face incident

4+ day, 55+ min ago   (246+ words) Senator Josh Hawley has given OpenAI until 1 October to answer 16 questions about the Hugging Face incident, calling it reckless that testing continued after the behaviour was detected....

TNW | Contributed
thenextweb.com > news > check-point-ai-network-firewall-prompt-inspection

Check Point built a firewall that reads AI prompts

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (23+ words) Nearly half of organizations have zero visibility into AI agent traffic. Check Point and Nightfall AI take different approaches to closing the gap....

TNW | Data-security
thenextweb.com > news > lg-smart-tv-acr-denial-industry-standard-eu

LG's denial confirms the part that applies to every smart TV

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (312+ words) LG rejects the standby recording claims but confirms its TVs scan local networks, calling it industry standard. ACR varies by country....

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > white-house-ai-framework-secret-incumbent-advantage

A secret AI review framework is an incumbent advantage

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (263+ words) A left-right coalition wants the White House AI framework published. Open-source developers were largely left out of the preview...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > deepmind-agents-cheating-whistleblowing-research-swarm

DeepMind's agents cheated. Then other agents told on them

6+ day, 10+ min ago   (1039+ words) Google DeepMind gave 100 Gemini agents 71 formal maths conjectures and told them not to cheat. One found a flaw in the grader, and the exploit spread through the shared library in 27 minutes. A quarter of the swarm started auditing, boycotting and…...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > linux-7-3-rc2-torvalds-ai-joke-tooling

Torvalds blames AI for Linux 7.3-rc2, mostly in jest

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (623+ words) Linus Torvalds says AI is an easy thing to blame for an oversized Linux 7.3-rc2. The kernel already has a tag that could answer it properly....

TNW | Data-security
thenextweb.com > news > openai-agents-get-requests-usemod-wiki-sandbox-escape

How GET requests let OpenAI's agents out

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1012+ words) Then the agents found a wiki that writes on GET. A GET request asks a server for something. A POST request sends the server something to store. That split is a convention, not a rule enforced anywhere, and the agents…...

TNW | Data-security
thenextweb.com > news > ascii-smuggling-phishing-microsoft-unicode-tag-characters

ASCII smuggling crossed over from AI attacks to spam

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (1015+ words) Invisible Unicode characters became famous for hiding instructions from people while feeding them to AI models. Microsoft has found a phishing operation using them for something duller: splitting the word funding so filters miss it. The ASCII smuggling campaign hit…...

TNW | Artificial-intelligence
thenextweb.com > news > openai-astra-arc-agi-3-harness-62-7-vs-99-9-benchmark-revisions

Astra's AGI score came from a harness, not the model

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (741+ words) ARC Prize scored GPT-6 Astra at 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 with its own harness and 99.9% with OpenAI's, then revised five metrics after launch....