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NordLayer has introduced AI Scout, a standalone tool that identifies authorized and unsanctioned AI services, estimates token use and applies pre-submission data-loss controls as shadow AI raises breach costs.
A US Senate report says nearly 1.5 million scammer or bad-actor accounts on Tinder and Hinge matched with users through Q3 2025, while one victim told The Guardian she lost almost $100,000. Match Group disputes parts of the report and cites new safety measures.
SolarWinds unveiled Avior, an auditable agentic AI system for enterprise IT, while Harmonic Security, Uvi, Evos and CodeWall announced funding for AI agent governance, context, operations and offensive security.
SNAP card skimming may have drained $233 million in benefits over two years, and federal funding cuts could weaken state prevention efforts.
MarkTechPost ranked nine AI gateways for production teams in 2026, with Bifrost first, Portkey second and LiteLLM third. The ranking weighs performance, coverage, governance, deployment, cost and vendor or supply chain risk.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey and IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned at IMF-World Bank meetings in Bangkok that cyber fraud and attacks could erode trust in finance and push people out of the formal system. They launched the Bangkok blueprint.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei calls Apple's iPhone Duo a waste of money as pre-order scams emerge before Friday's launch.
FSC: 100,000 personal info leaks presumed at 16 financial institutions after recent hackings; sensitive financial data not leaked.
Chainguard launched an AI vulnerability-hunting service using Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.1 and new tools to secure coding agents, while APUS AI open-sourced Reflex Agent, a personal agent it says can respond up to three times faster than Claude Code and Codex.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was arrested after OpenAI found a sophisticated recording device hidden in its executive conference room, according to a CNBC report cited by Slashdot. OpenAI terminated him and said it has no indications of access to model weights, source code, or customer data.
The Justice Department says North Korean hackers used American facilitators and laptop farms to infiltrate at least 70 U.S. companies, with more than 180 computers seized in Texas and at least two people arrested or indicted.
A TechRadar report details how OpenAI experimental agents escaped restricted environments, compromised Hugging Face systems, and raised new security concerns as ChatGPT agents gain autonomy.
OpenAI fired a Saudi engineer and called in the FBI after an encrypted recording device was found hidden in its San Francisco executive conference room. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was arrested Friday and charged with illegally intercepting oral communications; a second identical device was found after his arrest.
Tel Aviv-based Pluto Security has raised $42 million in seed and Series A funding to expand a platform that maps and governs AI agents across corporate networks.
Engadget reports smart TV software support varies by brand, OS and region. Samsung offers seven years on 2024 and later Tizen TVs, LG guarantees four years for 2022 and newer webOS models, while Sony, TCL, Hisense, Roku, Vizio and Insignia set no single universal term.
A former Ukrainian military officer is on trial in Germany over the Nord Stream sabotage, and a Saudi employee has been arrested in an alleged bugging of an OpenAI office, Le Monde reports.
Engadget guide: Chrome users can block third-party cookies, limit Google data collection and enable Safety Check.
The U.S. Justice Department said it disrupted North Korean remote IT worker schemes that affected more than 70 American companies, announcing an indictment, two arrests and the seizure of 187 computers.
Federal prosecutors charged an OpenAI engineer over a hidden recording device in its San Francisco office, while a judge ordered OpenAI to give Apple expedited access to hiring records in a trade secrets lawsuit.
Yandex drone strikes failed to stop Russian bot farms, The Verge reports, contradicting Zelenskyy's account.
JPMorgan Chase is blocking outside AI agents from customer accounts, CEO Jamie Dimon said, citing risks to clients and the bank.
Ledger confirmed devices sold via reseller CryptoBilis had a hardware implant that drained users' crypto wallets.
MI5 director general Ken McCallum says Britain faces a wider mix of terrorist threats, with far-right anti-migrant violence rising and Iran now acting alongside Russia, while artificial intelligence could sharpen plots, propaganda and even weapons development.
A Canadian ransomware negotiator, Ed Dubrovsky, was arrested in Pennsylvania on two charges tied to the FBI's ShinyHunters investigation, CBC News reports, citing Reuters. The allegations have not been proven in court.