Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
… Heather Adkins, Google’s VP of security engineering, told Wired that the EU’s proposals could lead to serious security and privacy issues. …
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Requiring Google to share data and system access with competitors may come with some security risks, but Google undeniably has a vested interest in maintaining its market position. Both of those things can be true, but is one maybe a little more true than the other? That’s the issue with which the European Commission must grapple. The EU is undertaking this effort under the auspices of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which has designated Google, Meta, Amazon, and other giant tech firms as “gatekeepers” that are subject to additional regulation. Google has openly opposed the DMA, calling for the
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user dataAnthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
… Lessons learned The security incidents led the UK government researchers at the AI Security Institute to stop all related evaluations of AI agents, isolate the relevant virtual machines, and disable internal organization access to the most capable models. …
Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders
… The company also touts a security framework designed to reduce the risk of employee vibe-coding sessions creating serious security flaws or leading to data breaches. …
Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters
… The government said it was unable to access data from the iPhone because it was protected by Apple’s Lockdown Mode, but it did access the reporter’s work MacBook Pro by compelling her to unlock it with her fingerprint. …
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
… The security testing group described one incident in which a model, faced with a misconfigured and “impossible to solve” evaluation, attempted to access AISI’s own evaluation infrastructure using code it wrote and hosted on an unmonitored third-party Internet service. …
Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package
… X41 D-Sec researcher Markus Vervier said a scan has revealed the following types of data are currently exposed: Biopharma AI – clinical trial DBs, M&A data, SSRF Identity Verification – face analysis, KYB, live PII, internal codebase IoT/Industrial – SSH to devices via bastion, remote code executio… …
iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27
… There will also be further refinements to the Liquid Glass redesign, which faced some usability and accessibility issues, as well as several bugs, just as Apple’s previous major OS redesign did. …
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
… Beyond running OOBscan, admins can defend against most of these attacks by doing the following: Set long, unique usernames and long, complex passwords Disable IPMI wherever possible Disable KCS wherever possible block host-side access to the BMC Isolate each BMC NIC individually, avoid placing mult… …
US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree
… With that, the attackers have access to past Signal conversations. …
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
… NV Energy is constructing a new $4.2 billion transmission line, called Greenlink West , that could help Liberty access a wider pool of energy suppliers. …