Mozilla says Anthropic’s Mythos is ‘every bit as capable’ as ‘the world’s best security researchers’ after Firefox experiment — and says the ‘zero-days are numbered’

Mozilla’s experiment with Anthropic’s Mythos AI shows that machines can now match elite human researchers in finding software vulnerabilities
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Why early-career investment and AI training matter for tackling the productivity crisis

Without early AI training, the UK’s £16bn productivity opportunity will slip away.

AI-generated passwords aren’t as secure as they appear

That AI-generated password looks strong, but pattern recognition and training data make it far less random than you think.
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‘The first question isn’t how to harden it, it’s whether it should be running at all’: Security experts explain why you really shouldn’t be running FTP servers anymore

FTP remains widely used across millions of servers, largely due to default hosting configurations and a lack of ongoing administrative review.
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‘Simply by doing their daily work’: Meta tracks staff activity to teach AI how to replace them

Meta is using detailed tracking of employee activity to train AI systems that could eventually take over routine workplace tasks
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“The need to ‘record data I want to keep onto a disc I have on hand’ continues to genuinely exist,” : Blu-ray isn’t dead after all — Verbatim and I-O Data pledge support even as rivals leave

Blu-ray hardware demand continues to shrink as manufacturers exit, but niche users and remaining suppliers sustain limited production and ongoing interest
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The $5 Drone Killer: The Navy’s new 20kW LOCUST laser just proved its “unlimited magazine depth” on the USS George H.W. Bush — it neutralized multiple UAVs for a fraction of the cost of a missile, protecting the fleet from cheap enemy drone swarms

New low-cost carrier-based laser system shows promise for defending US warships against drone threats, at $5 a pop.

“SIM-Farm-as-a-Service”: How a Belarus-based network hijacked UK and US telcos to enable global fraud

Investigation maps 94 SIM farm deployments connected to 35 mobile carriers including major UK and US networks.

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“Inference requires infrastructure that is closer to users and more energy-efficient”: Antimatter debuts global AI network built to bypass grid bottleneck with a 400,000 GPU roll out by 2030 across 1000 data centers

Antimatter targets growing inference demand with global rollout of modular data centers designed to operate where electricity supply is already available.
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China says world’s largest recycling scheme saw 41 million tech items traded in 2026 for discounts

Government subsidies in China are driving large-scale product replacement and boosting sales.