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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

3+ 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

3+ 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 > linux-7-3-rc2-torvalds-ai-joke-tooling

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

5+ 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 | Contributed
thenextweb.com > news > shadow-ai-enterprise-security-reco-control

Shadow AI is already inside your company. Here's how to get control of it

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (696+ words) Four in five AI tools observed by Reco operated without IT oversight, with small companies averaging 414 unsanctioned AI tools per 1,000 employees. IBM found shadow AI added $670,000 to breach costs. Discovery is only the beginning....

TNW | Quantum-tech
thenextweb.com > news > eu-quantum-act-no-budget-consolidation

EU official calls for consolidation among Europe’s quantum startups

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (747+ words) “Europe’s Quantum Moment: From Lab to Leadership”, an event hosted by MEP Sergey Lagodinsky at the European Parliament. The EU’s forthcoming Quantum Act will not come with a dedicated budget. “The act is not about budget,” said Thomas Skordas, deputy…...

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

ASCII smuggling crossed over from AI attacks to spam

6+ day, 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

6+ day, 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....

TNW | Openai
thenextweb.com > news > openai-agents-german-wiki-breakout

OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki for two months, researchers say

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (324+ words) Researchers found more than 15,000 edits left on the German programming wiki DseWiki by OpenAI agents that appear to have coordinated with each other between May and June 2026, undetected until late August....

TNW | Data-security
thenextweb.com > news > cra-24-hour-deadline-software-supply-chain-sbom

The 24-hour CRA deadline is changing software supply chain visibility

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (35+ words) The EU Cyber Resilience Act requires manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours starting September 11. FossID's Aaron Branson argues that SBOM confidence, not just SBOM possession, is the real bottleneck....

TNW | Sponsored
thenextweb.com > news > best-autonomous-pentesting-tools-proof-exploit-2026

The 10 best autonomous pentesting tools, ranked by proof of exploit (2026)

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (224+ words) Ten autonomous pentesting platforms compared on proof-of-exploit, attack-chain depth, and coverage. Astra Security leads for web and API exploitation with a walled-off validator that re-exploits every finding before it reaches your queue....