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Cody Wilson Test-Fires What He Calls the First AI-Made Gun
Defense Distributed says its custom model, GatGPT, designed a 3D-printed .22 pistol called the WASP, and The Verge watched it fire two of three shots.
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X Removes 13,000 Accounts Tied to Foreign Influence Ops Before the Midterms
X linked three networks to Iran, Russia, and China, though it hasn't shared public evidence for the attribution.
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Two Workers Die After a Gas Incident at Intel's Kiryat Gat Fab
A tank failure at Intel's advanced chip plant in southern Israel released nitrogen trifluoride, killing two workers and leaving a third in serious condition.
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Citizen Lab Says Spyware Makers Are Hacking Targets Through Online Ads
A new Citizen Lab report ties Israeli ad firm Discover-Tech to zero-click spyware makers Candiru and Bindecy, including an attack on at least 45 Al Jazeera computers.
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Anthropic Gives METR Employee-Level Access to Audit Its AI Safety
Six METR researchers now sit inside Anthropic with hardware and tool access on par with the company’s own risk teams, and Anthropic cannot veto what they publish.
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Palo Alto Patches a PAN-OS RCE Zero-Day Already Used in Attacks
CVE-2026-0322 lets an authenticated attacker with management-interface access run root code on PA-Series, VM-Series, and Panorama boxes, and CISA wants federal agencies fixed by October 17.
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Microsoft and Japanese Police Take Down a Phishing Marketplace Behind 1 Billion Scam Texts
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit and Health-ISAC seized domains behind YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Chinese-language phishing services tied to over a billion scam messages since January.
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Ivanti Patches a Connect Secure Zero-Day Attackers Were Already Using
Ivanti fixed an authentication bypass in its Connect Secure VPN after Volexity caught a new group chaining it into root access, and a third bug in the chain still has no patch.
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Google Messages Gets an Opt-In Gemini Mode to Catch Slow-Burn Scams
A new enhanced protection setting sends chats with unknown senders to Gemini in Google's Private AI Compute to judge whether they're a scam, rolling out in the coming weeks.
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Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Bugs Exposed by Anthropic's Mythos
CEO Brian Moynihan says the bank brought in 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to fix software flaws that frontier models like Mythos can find, on top of 3,000 staff already doing that work.
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XBOW Wins Google's First $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Bounty of 2026
Offensive security firm XBOW says one researcher and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol agents built a Windows Chrome full-chain exploit in six days for about $40,000 in compute, earning Google's first $250,000 award under its 2026 rules.
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Overdrive App Turns Jailbroken PS5s Into a 1,669-Game Store
A homebrew storefront called Overdrive lists 1,669 titles for PS5s running the Relapse jailbreak, and its GitHub release page is now returning a 404.
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OpenAI in Early Talks to Buy Security Firm Trail of Bits
The Information says OpenAI is in early talks to acquire New York cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, the partner already powering its Patch the Planet open-source bug hunt.
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OpenAI Engineer Charged With Bugging an Executive Conference Room
Prosecutors say a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer hid an encrypted audio recorder in toilet paper behind a TV in an executive meeting room, and OpenAI says its own models helped trace it to him.
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FBI Seizes 187 Devices From North Korean Laptop Farms Across Texas
The Justice Department charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers from more than 40 Texas "laptop farms" that let North Korean IT workers fake U.S. remote jobs at over 70 companies.
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Elevation Lab Pulls Its AirTag Silencer Over Stalking Concerns
Elevation Lab has stopped selling its AirTag Silencer, a pin-and-hammer tool that destroyed an AirTag's speaker, and says it will use its patent to stop anyone else from making one.
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Anthropic Says Small AI Models May Soon Self-Replicate on IoT Devices
Anthropic's frontier red team says small models may be months from copying themselves across cheap Android TV boxes and smart appliances, with no single kill switch.
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Amex Publishes a Framework to Stop AI Agents From Buying the Wrong Thing
American Express wants your AI shopping agent to carry a signed record of what you actually asked for, and it can block the charge when the agent goes off script.
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IonQ to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Elisity in $1.3B All-Stock Deal
IonQ is buying cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion to expand its quantum security business.
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Cyberattack Shuts Down Refrigerators at Hundreds of French Supermarkets
Attackers hijacked Danfoss refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets, triggering forced defrost cycles that spoiled food.