Cyber Security
Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, its provable inference prototype for MoE models
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, with collaborators at EPFL, MIT and StarkWare, built FlashProve, a prototype that produces a cryptographic proof that one specific language model generated one specific reply. The prover, two verifiers, the formal proofs behind them and a protocol specification are…
Philippine Migrant Worker Data Likely Leaked in 69GB Government Breach
An unknown operator appears to have exfiltrated SQL Server backups from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration in under a half hour.
Hackers hijack cPGuard autoupdate to deploy backdoor, steal data
Attackers have compromised the update infrastructure for the cPGuard web security suite to distribute a backdoor and a data-stealing script. [...]
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
Postal Service Surveilled Protest Activities Online With Little Rules, Oversight
Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: The Secret Room
Independent Digital Media Is Not a Privilege Governments Can Revoke: The Fight to Save Egypt’s Mada Masr
Rewriting Copyright Law for Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
Enterprise Tech
He opened Postman. Then two AI coding agents changed without his permission.
Can agent standards keep up with the companies building them?
Goldman Sachs restricted Claude Code for bankers — but made one surprising exception
Anthropic speeds up Claude Code with message threads. But your token bill stays the same.
Developers
Google Launches LiteRT Tensor API for Building, Customizing, and Optimizing ML Models for On-Device
Vitest 5: Prioritises Performance with a Shared Vite Server, Trace View, and Stricter Test Defaults
Arnis turns any place on Earth into a Minecraft world
LinkedIn Uses OpenTelemetry to Trace the Member Journey from Tap to Backend
Policy & Regulation
I Was There to Document the Aftermath of Deadly Flooding. Then, It Started Raining.
After ProPublica Investigation, House Democrats Demand Answers on U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents
“Chaos” in the Air: Five Ways Voting Could Be Disrupted on Election Day
Tribal Leaders Warned Border Wall Construction Would Disturb Native American Remains. They Were Right.
Markets & Economy
Here’s why AMD’s stock is rising — and sending a confident message about the AI trade
S&P 500 is looking over the edge of a technical cliff — what happens if it falls off?
Depressing, but true: If you want to get ahead at work, embrace virtue signaling
Super Micro’s stock pops as earnings show booming demand for AI servers
Tech Careers
Employee engagement falls to lowest level in 15 years, Gallup finds
HR employee’s bias claims against NYC cathedral fall flat, judge rules
Supreme Court leans toward LGBTQ exclusion for publicly funded Catholic preschools
EEOC signals rollback of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations
Technology
India’s EloElo nabs $80M from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market
Democrats Sweep Republicans in Nearly Every Race That Matters
AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history
The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI
World
Aukus is ‘worst, riskiest and most costly’ Australian defence decision ever, public inquiry into submarine deal says
On a historic night for democratic socialists, Mamdani says midterms show power of working-class voters
Democrat David Crowley will be Wisconsin’s first Black governor
Adam Hamilton becomes the first Democratic senator from Kansas in nearly a century
Science
Loophole listing keeps seafood qualifying as critically endangered on the menu
Who killed British archaeologist James Starkey? Archival records shed light on an 88-year-old mystery
Prosecutors Seek to Drop Charges Against Russian Scientist Accused of Smuggling Frog Embryos
Researchers develop sensors for continuous corn growth monitoring
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Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, its provable inference prototype for MoE models
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, with collaborators at EPFL, MIT and StarkWare, built FlashProve, a prototype that produces a cryptographic proof that one specific language model generated one specific reply. The prover, two verifiers, the… Read More about Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, its provable inference prototype for MoE models