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Ives says AI represents huge opportunity for cybersecurity firms as losses mount
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (951+ words) Cybersecurity stocks continued to slide Monday, after Anthropic unveiled a new security feature for its AI model Friday. The company's AI advancements have been wreaking havoc across software firms, and its latest foray appears to be doing the same to…...
OpenAI releases its answer to Claude Code, first AI model with “high capability” risk for cybersecurity
2+ week, 3+ day ago (837+ words) AI agents that can write code have quickly become one of the most profitable, and competitive, applications coming from the current crop of AI startups. Anthropic's Claude Code is enjoying a moment of popularity among software engineers, and it's shoring…...
Cloudflare surges as developers use Cloudflare Tunnels to host instances of viral Clawdbot AI tool
3+ week, 6+ day ago (809+ words) Web infrastructure company Cloudflare rose nearly 10% in premarket trading Tuesday, building on a 9% gain on Monday, as social media buzz around the viral AI agent Clawdbot drew investor attention to Cloudflare's role in the infrastructure behind emerging AI tools. One…...
ServiceNow strikes deal to buy cybersecurity firm Armis for $7.75 billion in cash
2+ mon, 7+ hour ago (696+ words) ServiceNow has agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis for $7.75 billion in an all-cash deal, the largest purchase in the company's history. That price tag is $750 million above what Bloomberg suggested was the top end of what Armis would cost just…...
Activists claim to have scraped most of Spotify, planning release
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (551+ words) An activist archiving group claims they have scraped a large part of Spotify's library of music. Anna's Archive, a self-described "open source search engine for shadow libraries" announced in a blog post that the pirated Spotify files will be a…...
Cloudflare just went down again, but apparently only for 20 minutes this time
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (664+ words) On Friday morning, the American IT giant reported that a change made to "how Cloudflare's Web Application Firewall parses requests" caused its network to "be unavailable for several minutes." Just a day after Meta announced that it had hired away…...
Anthropic CEO Amodei asked to testify before Congress about Claude-powered Chinese cyberattack, Axios reports
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (466+ words) Earlier this month, Anthropic revealed that Chinese state actors had used its Claude chatbot to orchestrate and execute a cyber espionage campaign for the first time. The company said that after it detected its product was being used in that…...
What the reaction to Google’s potential entry into selling chips tells us about the AI trade
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (1129+ words) Margins are meant to be attacked, customer quality matters, and focus on the size of the pie. A report from The Information suggesting that Google is in talks to begin selling its custom TPU chips to Meta has spurred huge…...
The world’s most common passwords usually follow the same formula
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (532+ words) A new report finds that Gen Z have a weaker top password choice than older generations " by just one digit. These days there's always a big data breach in the news, as hackers keep employing sophisticated code-breaking techniques to crack…...
The internet’s being weird again; this time it seems to be Cloudflare’s fault
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (678+ words) Last month, we wrote that Amazon's cloud service sneezed, and huge chunks of the internet came down with a pretty bad cold. While it's not yet that bad, several major websites have been intermittently peaky this morning, and it looks…...