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Google DeepMind Releases DiffusionGemma, an Open Model That Generates Text 4x Faster Google DeepMind has released DiffusionGemma, the first open-weight large-scale language model to use text diffusion instead of the standard autoregressive approach. The model generates text up to four times faster than a conventional transformer of the same size, though at a measurable cost […]

Treat Your AI Agents Like Interns: The Expert Case for Guardrails, Monitoring, and Skepticism The hottest metaphor in enterprise AI right now is the intern. At the 2026 Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, a panel of security experts argued that the best way to think about AI agents is as eager but dangerously naive new […]

Anthropic Apologizes for Hidden Guardrails in Claude Fable 5 That Silently Degraded AI Research Queries Anthropic has apologized for including a hidden safety system in its new Claude Fable 5 model that secretly degraded responses when users asked questions about building competing AI systems. The company said it will reverse the design within days after […]

Oracle Warns of Zero-Day Bug That Hackers Used to Breach Over 100 Organizations Oracle has warned its corporate customers about a critical-rated vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software after the cybercrime group ShinyHunters used the flaw to compromise more than 100 organizations worldwide. The company published a security advisory on Thursday, but has not yet released […]

Microsoft Patches Record 198 Windows Bugs Including 3 Zero-Days, Underscoring Build 2026 Quality Pivot Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed a record 198 vulnerabilities across its Windows ecosystem, including three actively exploited zero-day flaws, in the largest single-month security update the company has ever released. The update arrives less than two weeks after Microsoft’s Build […]

North Korean Hackers Behind Nearly Half of All US Tech Industry Breaches, CrowdStrike Finds North Korean state-sponsored hackers now account for nearly half of all hands-on-keyboard intrusions targeting American technology companies, according to a new CrowdStrike report covering April 2025 through May 2026. The group tracked as “Famous Chollima” was responsible for 47 percent of […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a binding directive Wednesday ordering federal civilian agencies to fix the most critical security vulnerabilities within three days, a dramatic compression of the typical weeks-long patching cycle driven by the accelerating pace of AI-powered cyberattacks. Binding Operational Directive 26-04 introduces a risk-based framework that categorizes vulnerabilities by four […]

Bluesky is building a communities feature that will let users create and join topic-specific groups within the decentralized social network, the company’s head of product Alex Benzer announced Thursday. The move positions Bluesky to compete with Reddit and Facebook Groups, and arrives as X shuts down its own communities feature and Meta’s Threads begins testing […]

The Raspberry Pi 5 now ships with 16 GB of RAM, making it the most memory-rich single-board computer the foundation has ever produced. It is also the most expensive. The 16 GB variant sells for $305 on the official Raspberry Pi store and $350 from retailers like Adafruit, a trajectory that has seen the top-end […]

The ransomware group known as “The Gentlemen” has become the second most prolific ransomware operation in the world this year, claiming more than 330 published victims and over 1,570 compromised organizations in total, according to Check Point Research. Now Brian Krebs has traced the group’s administrator to a real-world identity: Alexander Andreevich Yapaev, a 36-year-old […]