Cisco Fixes Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Meeting Management (CVSS 9.9)
Cisco addresses critical CVE-2025-20156 with 9.9 CVSS, fixing admin privilege risk in Meeting Management.
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
Social media accounts on TikTok and X are posting AI-generated videos of women and girls being strangled, showing yet another example of generative AI companies failing to prevent users from creating media that violates their own policies against violent content. One account on X has been posting dozens of AI-generated strangulation videos starting in mid-October….
Podcast: The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams
We start this week with Joseph’s story about how we obtained Haotian AI, a sought-after piece of realtime video deepfake software that lets you turn into anyone else during Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, or Zoom calls. After the break, Matthew tells us about some insane Yu-Gi-Oh trading card drama. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains how…
AWS Announces £5m Grant for Cyber Education in the UK
Amazon Web Services has launched its Cyber Education Grant Program in the UK
Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models. The controlled study of 1,298 UK-based participants, published today in Nature Medicine from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Nuffield Department of Primary…
Oligo Security raises $50M Series B to stop cloud application attacks in real time
The cybersecurity company’s platform detects vulnerabilities before they become exploits, ensuring organizations stay secure.
For $50, Attackers Can Use GhostGPT to Write Malicious Code
Malware writing is only one of the several malicious activities that adversaries can use the new, uncensored AI chatbot.
UNT Cybersecurity Team Snags $3M to Use Advanced AI to Overhaul Defense Department Hiring Processes
Aiming to safeguard national security using advanced AI, cybersecurity experts at the University of North Texas have received $3 million from the Department of Defense to help the department overhaul its hiring processes. The UNT researchers, led by computer science and engineering faculty Ram Dantu and Cihan Tunc, received $2.1 million in funding from the…
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
Thursday morning, Ezra Klein at the New York Times published a column titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way.” Klein’s general thesis is that Kirk was willing to talk to anyone, regardless of their beliefs, as evidenced by what he was doing while he was shot, which was debating people on college campuses….
‘Brainrot’ AI on Instagram Is Monetizing the Most Fucked Up Things You Can Imagine (and Lots You Can’t)
This article contains potentially disturbing graphics and descriptions that are nonetheless viral on Instagram and other major platforms. These are words I never thought I would type, and the people in my life who I have said them to have told me to immediately stop speaking. But here is how I would describe the type…