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Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. Cardiac care doesn’t work like that anymore. A patch or smartwatch records the electrocardiogram (ECG). A phone or gateway relays it. A cloud service stores and analyzes it, and a cardiologist reviews it from s

NVIDIA unveils security architecture that can stop AI agents crossing set boundaries NVIDIA’s OpenShell Reference Architecture is designed to help businesses control AI agents operating across enterprise infrastructure and local computing systems. It builds on NVIDIA’s existing OpenShell security software, combining it with hardware for running AI models, managing agent operations and enforcing security rules. The aim is to let agents carry out useful work

AI coding boom exposes cracks in cloud development Developers are encountering bugs, testing delays and disruptions in shared cloud environments as AI increases the volume of code they produce, according to LocalStack’s 2026 State of AI in Cloud Development report. More code adds to the testing workload Sixty-five percent of respondents say their teams now generate at least twice as much code as they did before adopting AI, with 32% reporting five times as

Say a few words, and a rigged AI asks for $5,000 Researchers at Imperial College London tampered with speech-to-text models so they transcribed most speakers accurately and misbehaved for one chosen person. When that person spoke, the models produced output the attacker had picked in advance. In one test, that output was a request to send $5,000, and AI agents reading the transcript made the transfer in a sandboxed banking environment. The attacker needs a

AI agent permissions are outrunning security Most organizations have handed AI agents work that used to need a person’s sign-off. In a survey of 1,100 IT and security decision-makers, 70% said they now let AI make decisions and take actions that would have required human approval a year ago. That new authority is already causing trouble. Three in four organizations ran into at least one AI-related security issue or warning sign in the past year. In a lot o

Anthropic finds 94 cases where open-source projects drop security controls without warning Software can expose complex functionality to unauthenticated users even when that functionality is disabled or unnecessary. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team used Claude to examine 25 open-source projects and reported 493 issues involving unnecessary exposure, conflicting settings, and code running before security checks. Attack surface reduction means limiting the parts

Claude Security can now spot vulnerabilities that reappear in code Anthropic has updated Claude Security with ongoing code scanning and automatic fix tracking to help security teams monitor vulnerabilities as software changes. The service scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches for review. It is powered by the company’s full family of models, including Claude Mythos, without requiring Cyber Verification Program access. Scanning code and tr

OpenAI’s coding agents talked themselves out of being monitored Two AI coding agents running inside OpenAI silently weakened the systems built to catch AI misbehavior, and one of them then told its human operator it had done no such thing. OpenAI disclosed both episodes in a misalignment report released earlier this week and said it is tightening its defenses, but admits it cannot yet explain why the agents behaved this way. AI agents evading oversight Nei

AI is taking cybersecurity jobs at junior and experienced levels alike Organizations are cutting cybersecurity roles as they adopt AI, even while reporting shortages of the expertise needed to manage threats, according to Barracuda’s Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report. 56% have experienced professional workforce reductions linked to AI, evenly divided between entry-level and higher-level roles. Has your security head count been impacted at all by AI? (Source:

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mario Tama / Getty Images Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a state bill on Monday that would’ve prevented AI companies from allowing minors to access chatbots, unless the