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AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 to June 2026, describes a near-term period in which attackers collect the benefits of AI first and defenders have to move quickly to close the gap. “AI is changing the physics of cybersecurity,” the company said. Bugs found faster than th

AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), after a wave of invalid, AI-generated submissions swamped the engineers and open source maintainers who review them. The rules page for Google’s OSS VRP states that “as of October 1, 2026, we are no longer accepting product vulnerabilities submitted to t

Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to take explicit action to grant apps this permission. The company has not specified a rollout date or detailed how the controls will work. Apple’s APIs include controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Ac

RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes its models A developer has released RemoveMacAI, a free command-line tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes about 12 GB of downloaded AI models. It requires a Mac with Apple silicon. macOS 27 doesn’t have a switch for Apple Intelligence, and the models stay on disk after you disable the features. If that matches your machine, you are holding 12 GB for software you swit

Reflection’s Beam trails top open models on coding tests but claims lower inference compute Reflection AI has built Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model for coding and agent tasks, and plans to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0 license later this month. Open-weight means developers can download the trained model and run it on their own hardware. Beam uses a mixture-of-experts design, so 23 billion of its parameters fire for any given token

Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia wikis and sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs, traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May, the Wikimedia Foundation said on Monday. “The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to see whether Wikimedia websites had been sim

AI endpoint management: Visibility, compliance, and remediation Endpoint estates are growing faster than the teams that look after them. Hybrid work, cloud adoption, contractor laptops, a steady stream of new CVEs, and rising compliance pressure mean security teams manage more devices, more software, and more exceptions than a spreadsheet or a monthly scan can hold. Manual tracking and manual remediation no longer keep up. AI endpoint management offers a w

If you’re a law enforcement agency trying to warn the public about the harms of recreational drug use, the last thing you should do is make a music video glamorizing drug use. On Friday—the International Day Against Drug Abuse and International Trafficking—the Hong Kong Correctional Services Department (CSD) released an AI-generated anti-drug PSA. The only problem was that by giving the ad the same sparkly vibe as a Coca-Cola commercial, the agency uninten