Cyber Security
Quest Diagnostics Reports Cyber Breach Affecting ‘Certain Patient Records’
In a regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported unauthorized access to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders. The post Quest Diagnostics Reports Cyber Breach Affecting ‘Certain Patient Records’ appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense
An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model’s owner pays for the computing power. Symantec captured the agent’s instruction set this summer through a honeypot posing as an unprotected AI service,…
Iran’s Prince of Persia APT Hosts C&C in US for First Time Since 2016
After a three-month lull, Prince of Persia hid a Tornado C&C server on US shared hosting, its first US-based server since 2016. The post Iran’s Prince of Persia APT Hosts C&C in US for First Time Since 2016 appeared first on SecurityWeek .
AI & Automation
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.
Postman adds security controls for AI agents, APIs, and MCP servers
Postman has announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a protocol-agnostic control plane for governing how AI agents, LLMs, and MCP servers discover and interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. With Fabric Gateway, organizations can securely connect AI agents to their APIs while…
Privacy & Identity
Canadians Are Running Out Of Time To Oppose The Dangerous C-22 Surveillance Bill
Interoperability vs. Security: Why not both?
EFF to Brazil’s ANPD: Data Privacy and Free Expression Must Underpin Platform Regulations
EFF Launches Guide to Help Parents and Youth Protect Privacy Online
Enterprise Tech
Five AI agent harnesses took the same memory test. The results weren’t even close.
OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation
Google and AWS open new paths for PyTorch beyond Nvidia
Who on-calls an AI? This is the unresolved crisis of agent ownership
Developers
NgRx 22: Resource Extensions and Dynamic Deep Signals for Angular
The Regression Tests Nobody Writes: Capturing How Software Actually Behaves
How bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills
Study Finds AI-generated Code Fails to Boost Productivity Due to Downstream Bottlenecks
Policy & Regulation
Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.
Ballot Rejections Soared in Rural Counties After USPS Reduced Mail Service
Trump’s Education Department Scaled Back Investigations Into Discrimination and Sexual Assault on Campus, New Data Shows
Colorado Marijuana Regulators Failed to Protect Consumers From Potential Contamination, Audit Finds
Markets & Economy
CoreWeave set off a wave of anxiety — but Wall Street’s dire prognosis is premature
The U.S. stock market is fracturing into two camps, and it’s leaving investors with a brutal case of whiplash
Treasury yields see extreme plunge. Why investors are ducking for cover.
Americans are having fewer babies — and pampering them with luxury diapers
Tech Careers
AI is splitting HR into 2 archetypes, study shows
Southwest flight attendant sues for failure to accommodate pet allergies
CEOs say they’re not yet seeing transformational change from AI
Should companies pay employees to quit?
Gadgets
Apple is finally catching up with Siri, but the goalposts are moving again
Apple wins again in copyright infringement battle over Apple TV thriller series
Strava revamps route discovery with smarter search, offline improvements, more
MacBook Neo helps Apple soften the blow of global PC market downturn, per report
Science
Light-based method enables precise control of ultrafast electron flow in a scanning tunneling microscope
Costly dead-tissue disorder in apples caused by faster growth rates
Iris patterns offer a noninvasive way to recognize individual Amazonian treefrogs
A mineral from the inside of planets reveals a surprising lesson: How you push matters
Latest News in details
Quest Diagnostics Reports Cyber Breach Affecting ‘Certain Patient Records’
In a regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported unauthorized access to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders. The post Quest Diagnostics Reports Cyber Breach Affecting ‘Certain Patient… Read More about Quest Diagnostics Reports Cyber Breach Affecting ‘Certain Patient Records’
Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense
An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model’s owner pays for the computing power. Symantec… Read More about Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense
Light-based method enables precise control of ultrafast electron flow in a scanning tunneling microscope
What would it take to watch an electron move through a material? Researchers would need to see individual atoms and capture an electron's motion at incredibly short timescales. A Technion-led team has brought those… Read More about Light-based method enables precise control of ultrafast electron flow in a scanning tunneling microscope
NgRx 22: Resource Extensions and Dynamic Deep Signals for Angular
NgRx 22 adds experimental resource extensions that change Angular's resource behavior, so value() is retained during reloads and no longer throws on errors. It also introduces dynamic deep signals for union types, a SignalStoreFeatureType… Read More about NgRx 22: Resource Extensions and Dynamic Deep Signals for Angular
The Indian workers filming their work to train AI
Indian workers are being paid to film themselves at work and the footage is used to train AI. Read More about The Indian workers filming their work to train AI
Government won’t put together ‘shopping list’ for public to stockpile for emergency – UK politics live
Ministers have repeated several warnings in the last 18 months about the threat of hybrid attacks from overseas Good morning from London, where we’re less than a week from Andy Burnham and John Healey’s… Read More about Government won’t put together ‘shopping list’ for public to stockpile for emergency – UK politics live