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AnthropicSEP 02, 2026 ↗Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyricsAnthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they...OpenAISEP 02, 2026 ↗US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive
artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use
globally," t...Google DeepMindSEP 02, 2026 ↗Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprisesxAIAUG 31, 2026 ↗The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and GrokVersions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.
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AUG 15, 2026Gemini 3.7 Flash Is Smarter and Half Price. Read the Fine Print on Both.→JUL 24, 2026Kimi K3: The Largest Open Model Ever Does Not Exist Yet. It Is Due Monday.→JUL 22, 2026Meta Killed Llama in April. Now It Wants You to Rent Muse Spark Instead.→JUL 21, 2026Gemini 3.6 Flash Is Not Smarter Than 3.5. Google Says That Is the Point.→JUN 27, 2026OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Is Its Best Model Yet. You Cannot Use It Yet, and That Is the Story.→
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SEP 02, 2026Fake Software Installers Disable Windows Update and Weaken Microsoft DefenderAn active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers.
"The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular s...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 02, 2026Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware PayloadsThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation.
The effort was ...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 02, 2026Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected ThousandsThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attac...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 02, 2026BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root AccessVirtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 02, 2026Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting PagesA Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 01, 2026Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential-Probing and C2 ActivityThreat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck.
The vulnerabilities in question are listed below -
CVE-2026-0768 (C...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 01, 2026Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable OnesThe most common way into a company last year was to ask.
A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. ...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 01, 2026Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-hori...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 01, 2026Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI AnalysisCybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interf...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 01, 2026Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding TestsThe Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting foo...The Hacker News · security↗SEP 01, 2026Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment SystemsBrazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024.
Google Threat Inte...The Hacker News · security↗AUG 31, 2026OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safetyOpenAI supports California SB 1119, advancing strong, age-appropriate AI safeguards for teens while preserving opportunities to learn, create, and explore.OpenAI · security↗AUG 31, 2026China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security LogsA China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control Sys...The Hacker News · security↗AUG 31, 2026DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not VictimsThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now poin...The Hacker News · security↗AUG 31, 2026North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and SalesThreat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent i...The Hacker News · security↗