OpenAI says it's cutting off internet access for frontier model training
OpenAI says it will no longer allow frontier models to access the internet during training in an effort to put in new safety measures after a series of incidents.
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Read more Technology →Meta is charging government and nonprofit pages to post links on Facebook
The new restrictions are a test which is explicitly not supposed to impact these entities.
Read story →Apple Music has a fun Easter egg for the iPod's 25th anniversary
Time to dust off the click wheel.
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Read more Cybersecurity →BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkm…
Read story →Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE Flaws
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found…
Read story →Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework…
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Read more Data Breaches →Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected…
Read story →Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations wit…
Read story →U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime servi…
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Read more Privacy →Greece passes under-15 social media ban, and every user may soon have to prove their age
Greece has passed a law banning under-15s from social media from January 2027. Here’s how the age checks will work and what it means for Greek teens.
Read story →Faster OpenVPN, P2P on every server, and fewer commands: NordVPN 6.0 lands on Linux
NordVPN 6.0.0 for Linux brings NordWhisper-powered obfuscation, kernel-level OpenVPN acceleration, P2P on every server, and a CLI cleanup that could affect your scripts.
Read story →Microsoft admits its Windows update to fix 'Always on VPN' issue didn't actually work
IT admins are stuck with temporary workarounds as the tech giant admits the bug was "mistakenly updated to Resolved status."
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Read more Science →One of Earth’s most powerful supervolcanoes is refilling with fresh magma
Deep beneath Japan’s Kikai caldera, a massive magma reservoir is refilling 7,300 years after one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth's recent geological history. Scientists used underwater seismic surveys to reveal a vast stor…
Read story →Dental implants can hijack your immune system, scientists discover
Researchers have uncovered a surprising reason dental implant infections often resist antibiotics: the implants themselves can contribute to the problem. Bacteria corrode titanium implants, releasing microscopic particles that hijack immun…
Read story →Breakthrough PTSD treatment achieves 68% remission rate in clinical trial
A newly FDA-cleared PTSD treatment uses personalized brain mapping and magnetic stimulation to target abnormal brain activity, with a clinical trial reporting a 52% reduction in symptoms and 68% remission. Researchers believe the technolog…
Read story →OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
Read story →Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
Read story →From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scali…
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