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sherwood.news > tech > ives-says-ai-represents-huge-opportunity-for-cybersecurity-firms-as-losses

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…...

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sherwood.news > tech > openai-releases-its-answer-to-claude-code-first-ai-model-with-high

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…...

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sherwood.news > markets > cloudflare-surges-as-developers-use-cloudflare-to-host-instances-of-clawdbot

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…...

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sherwood.news > markets > servicenow-strikes-deal-to-buy-cybersecurity-firm-armis-for-usd7-75-billion

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…...

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sherwood.news > tech > activists-claim-to-have-scraped-most-of-spotify-planning-release

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…...

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sherwood.news > tech > cloudflare-went-down-again-apparently-only-20-minutes-this-time-back-now

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…...

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sherwood.news > power > anthropic-ceo-amodei-asked-to-testify-before-congress-about-claude-powered

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…...

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sherwood.news > markets > what-the-reaction-to-googles-potential-entry-into-selling-chips-tells-us-about-ai-boom-bubble

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…...

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sherwood.news > culture > the-worlds-most-common-passwords-usually-follow-the-same-formula

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…...

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sherwood.news > tech > internets-being-weird-again-this-time-it-seems-to-be-cloudflares-fault

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…...