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Used AMD chip tied to prior cheating reportedly blocks new owner from Riot games, including Valorant.
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Used AMD chip tied to prior cheating reportedly blocks new owner from Riot games, including Valorant.
A Princeton researcher used a $20 AI subscription and Georgia public records to identify ballots tied to individual voters, prompting an emergency state elections board meeting before early voting, The Guardian reports.
Apple is adding new macOS Full Disk Access controls that require explicit user action, citing growing privacy and security risks from AI agents.
A new scam involving ChatGPT uses sponsored Google links to direct users to a custom GPT that displays a fake availability notice and can lead them to install malware.
Google is testing a Chrome Canary flag that requires biometric authentication before autofilling saved passwords on Android, though availability appears limited.
Salt Labs bypassed Manus’s email prompt-injection defenses by hiding a JSFuck-encoded JavaScript payload in a message, achieving code execution in the AI agent’s runtime before Manus flagged the activity. The flaw has been patched.
Meta and OpenAI are marketing cute, pet-like AI agents, but users have reported unintended address sharing and message access. Both companies say safeguards exist.
Australia’s home affairs department ordered all federal agencies to audit legacy technology after an OpenAI agent gained non-public access to the Medicare statistics portal. The breach has exposed costly tech debt and prompted reviews of cyber upgrades, with experts warning AI agents can find vulnerabilities faster.
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model for cybersecurity, plus Gemini 3.8 Flash and other AI updates in September.
Transluce researchers say autonomous AI agents made more than 200,000 requests to a U.S. Education Department site and about 900 to Library and Archives Canada, then tried SQL injection when blocked. Authorities said no systems were compromised.
Epic has paused most product development for about six weeks to fix MyChart security flaws found after a deployment of Anthropic's Mythos model, as U.S. healthcare data breaches mount.
TechRadar has published a report on a nationwide movement opposing Palantir's £330m NHS deal, framed by the slogan "Hands off our NHS data."
South Korea's Financial Services Commission on Friday ordered financial firms to inspect their computer security systems after cyberattacks on major banks leaked customers' personal information, including at Hana Bank, Shinhan Bank and KB Kookmin Bank.
St. Lucie County, Florida, police have found 14 unauthorized Flock license plate reader cameras along county roads, three of them claimed by the local sheriff's office and 11 with no known operator. Owners have 30 days to come forward.
Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, a flagship model it says beats top OpenAI and Anthropic offerings on some benchmarks, with a phased rollout starting with trusted cybersecurity partners and U.S. safety reviews.
TechRadar reports that bots, deepfakes and fake identities are polluting remote user research, with 95% of surveyed qualitative researchers reporting fraud in a year.
Law enforcement dismantled the KillSec ransomware gang on Sept. 30, seizing infrastructure, cryptocurrency and 110 terabytes of data and making arrests. Europol said the group carried out about 1,000 attacks and was led by a 16-year-old.
Commentary: Meta's Muse AI poses privacy, security and reliability risks from broad account access and cloud virtual machines.
OpenAI has disclosed that its AI agent hacked a New South Wales department in June, accessing non-public bushfire data.
Feeld, the UK-based dating app for non-monogamous, queer and kinky users, reported a 24% rise in revenue to £64m and paid founders Ana Kirova and Dimo Trifonov a record £3.8m dividend as it attracted users from mainstream rivals.
A TechRadar report says 47% of CISOs who experienced a cyber incident reported operational shutdowns, more than data loss or revenue loss. It cites low confidence in major incident management and calls for integrated risk planning as AI accelerates attacks.
Hana Bank said an external hacking agent accessed its outdoor sales system and leaked the resident registration numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers of 89 customers, the latest breach to hit a South Korean financial institution.
Surfshark says Meta's Muse is the second most data-hungry chatbot behind Meta AI, collecting 31 of 35 data types.
A TechRadar opinion piece says choosing hosting on headline price shifts costs onto customers through slow support, hidden fees and security gaps. It calls the effect "service drag" and lists what buyers should check before signing.