Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police
Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police

Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It’s developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon-owned company says will protect your videos without traditional end-to-end encryption. TAKE limits when and why Amazon’s cloud can access those videos, while still providing features like smart alerts for […]

87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China
87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China

Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resulting damage at €289.2bn. What is new in this year’s rep…

The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu
The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu

Z.AI made it. The Beijing company, also known as Zhipu, owns the free model that took the top of OpenRouter’s charts last weekend. It confirmed on Wednesday that Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series, and said it would release the weights the s…

EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows
EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows

Foreign governments have tried to break into the messaging accounts of senior European Union officials. The bloc’s own cyber defence unit told national governments so in July. An internal presentation lists “account takeover targeting high-ranking offi…

Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks
Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks

Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period “heartbreaking for our team.” Not long after Rockstar posted, another leaked video appeared, this time showing the Jason character pulling off the series’ trademark move of carjacking a box Chevy-like vehicle with […]

Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern
Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern

Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state…

‘It is significant, and it’s something many organisations haven’t accounted for’: The phishing threats hiding in your calendar invites
‘It is significant, and it’s something many organisations haven’t accounted for’: The phishing threats hiding in your calendar invites

Barracuda explains why attackers are moving beyond the inbox and into calendar apps, and what security teams need to change to keep up.

Of course this fake GTA 6 ISO download is malware — testers reveal 113GB download is 99.99% empty zeroes, with a tiny virus attached
Of course this fake GTA 6 ISO download is malware — testers reveal 113GB download is 99.99% empty zeroes, with a tiny virus attached

A fake 113GB GTA 6 ISO reportedly contains 99.99% empty data and a 50KB malicious payload capable of weakening Windows security.

Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship
Alice raises $140mn to stress-test the models Anthropic and Google ship

One company spent eight years cataloguing the worst material on the internet. It has now raised $140mn to point that archive at AI models. Alice, formerly ActiveFence, announced the round on Tuesday. Apax Digital Funds led it, and will take a board sea…

Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.

A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it …