Cyber Security
Japan Pushes Emergency Funding for Cybersecurity as AI-Assisted Breaches Rise
The package adds public-private cyber responders, an AI-focused team run by the economic ministry, and more leeway to use the government's new active cyber-defense powers.
Baker Tilly notifies clients of data breach at third-party provider
The Baker Tilly Advisory Group is notifying clients that a data breach has compromised certain personal information about them and their dependents. [...]
Active ScreenConnect attacks breach MSPs, impact dozens of organizations
ConnectWise is investigating an active malware campaign targeting managed service providers (MSPs) that uses compromised ScreenConnect environments to deploy rogue remote-access clients to customer devices. [...]
AI & Automation
Anthropic launches new Claude Fable and Mythos 5.2 models
Anthropic is announcing two new models today: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which it says are designed to take on "daunting" technical challenges. The company claims the new models show improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision, and can generate outputs faster than the 5.1 versions…
An AI model’s false tip to Philadelphia police reveals how digital agents can do as they’re told and still cause trouble
An expert on AI governance explains why these rare mistakes may soon be common, and with much higher stakes.
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
Elizabeth Dias, our national religion correspondent, and Cade Metz, one of our technology reporters, discuss Anthropic’s approach for instilling morality into Claude — which has involved consultations with religious leaders, including ones at the Vatican — and why it’s raising questions.
Privacy & Identity
🤕 Medicare’s AI Experiment | EFFector 38.20
We’re Asking an Appeals Court to Require a Warrant for ALPR Searches
Why Fewer People Are Challenging Bad Patents
Presenting ‘Desire Lines: Encoding Queer Digital Futures’
Enterprise Tech
Anthropic built a model that beats Opus. It recommends Opus anyway.
Expensive accelerators, no workload-level visibility: Introducing Amazon CloudWatch accelerated compute insights
AWS had its agents build a free and open emulator for AWS. They now maintain it, too.
Developers have been hacking around MCP’s file-upload problem for two years. A fix is taking shape.
Developers
GitHub Makes Agentic Workflows Generally Available with Isolation and Budget Controls
JioHotstar Benchmarks Knowledge Bases for AI Coding Agents
Presentation: Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry
How LinkedIn, Netflix & DoorDash Run Agents, Evals & Inference in Production: QCon AI New York 2026
Policy & Regulation
A Tool Built by Election Deniers Said These Voters Were Dead. We Found Them Alive.
A Newborn Died in a Faith-Healing Sect. The State — and One Ex-Believer — Stepped in to Save Her Twin.
Prophecy, Scorn and a Rejection of This World: The Forbidding Vision of a Faith-Healing Preacher
“We Have No One”: How Trump’s Dismantling of the VA Left a Veterans Hospital in Crisis
Markets & Economy
Opening trading-card packs has become a $2 billion market. New apps are trying to cash in.
Falling oil prices are no longer enough to bring down borrowing costs in the world’s most important bond market
Why this ‘big idea’ to fix Social Security relies on a massive stock-market gamble
It’s not ‘Medicare for All,’ but ‘Medicare for More.’ What this could mean for workers over 50.
Money & Scams
Car Insurance Soars for Drivers With Poor Credit; Here’s What to Do
Your holiday credit-card bills are going up. What you can do to ease the pain.
Prediction Markets Are Arriving in Your Investing App, and That Makes Us Nervous
First Look: Inside United’s New Club at Washington Dulles
Tech Careers
A wave of religious discrimination claims is coming, attorneys say
Back to Basics: Who is a ‘similarly situated comparator’ under Title VII?
L&D leaders expect bigger budgets when their strategy is directly tied to business priorities
Be proactive on pay bands, promotion ladders and performance parameters, attorneys say
Technology
United won’t let your AI agent book your flight
T-Mobile illegally imposed 50 GB cap on low-income home Internet plan, NY says
Anduril demos night-vision sensor for tracking satellites in darkness
Why the data center you dread might never even be built
World
Democrats push to rein in Trump on immigration after voter backlash to ICE raids
Hacker claims to have sold VCE exam papers to hundreds of students after government website hack
Democrat Scott Colom unseats Cindy Hyde-Smith in shocking Mississippi Senate win
Democrat Scott Colom wins Mississippi Senate race
Science
Independent technique validates landmark M87* image
Clean water, hidden risks: New technology reveals neurotoxicity missed by conventional water quality monitoring
Fluorescent probes reveal fluid-like barriers inside nuclear pores of living human cells
Superconducting vortices provide experimental evidence that clogging is a phase transition
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Independent technique validates landmark M87* image
The 2019 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) image was the work of hundreds of scientists and captured the first direct view of a black hole's shadow—becoming one of the most recognized scientific images of the… Read More about Independent technique validates landmark M87* image
Japan Pushes Emergency Funding for Cybersecurity as AI-Assisted Breaches Rise
The package adds public-private cyber responders, an AI-focused team run by the economic ministry, and more leeway to use the government's new active cyber-defense powers. Read More about Japan Pushes Emergency Funding for Cybersecurity as AI-Assisted Breaches Rise
Democrats push to rein in Trump on immigration after voter backlash to ICE raids
Members of Congress seek to ‘bring sanity’ to system but decline to give details on plans to reform or abolish agency A group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday pushed for immediate efforts to rein… Read More about Democrats push to rein in Trump on immigration after voter backlash to ICE raids
Clean water, hidden risks: New technology reveals neurotoxicity missed by conventional water quality monitoring
A photograph of an orchestra can tell you whether the musicians are on stage and their instruments are intact. But it cannot tell you whether they are playing in harmony. Even when every musician… Read More about Clean water, hidden risks: New technology reveals neurotoxicity missed by conventional water quality monitoring
Hacker claims to have sold VCE exam papers to hundreds of students after government website hack
With year 12 exams under way, VCAA says there is no evidence any have leaked and hacker is attempting to exploit ‘anxious students’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news… Read More about Hacker claims to have sold VCE exam papers to hundreds of students after government website hack
Fluorescent probes reveal fluid-like barriers inside nuclear pores of living human cells
Our genetic material is hidden inside the nucleus of our cells, well protected by a double membrane. All molecules wishing to pass through must thread their way through one of several thousand nuclear pores.… Read More about Fluorescent probes reveal fluid-like barriers inside nuclear pores of living human cells