More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.
More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.

The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology …

Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.
Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.

No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has had those warnings turned against it quite so brutally. In the past six months, Anthropic has published a 19,000-word essa…

EU Parliament strips immunity from senior Italian MEP in Huawei bribery probe
EU Parliament strips immunity from senior Italian MEP in Huawei bribery probe

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to lift the parliamentary immunity of Fulvio Martusciello, clearing the way for Belgian prosecutors to pursue bribery allegations linked to Chinese tech giant Huawei. The vote was 344 in favour, 234 against, wit…

India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns

The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app’s message editing feature.

Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too’ — a stark warning on threats to undermine privacy

Apple’s outgoing chief executive has long been a proponent of pro-privacy systems, especially end-to-end encryption

The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration’s decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn’t immune from U.S. government interference.

100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers
100 cybersecurity experts say banning Fable 5 hurts defenders more than hackers

Three days after the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5, roughly 100 of the world’s most prominent cybersecurity professionals have published an open letter demanding the ban be reversed. Their argument is blunt: pulling …

Your Ryzen CPU used to encrypt your RAM. A firmware update silently turned that off.
Your Ryzen CPU used to encrypt your RAM. A firmware update silently turned that off.

AMD has silently disabled a security feature on its consumer Ryzen processors that protected users against physical attacks on their computer’s memory. The feature, Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, encrypts all data stored in RAM using a hardware-…

All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House

Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. When they launched on June 9th, Anthropic said “Fable 5’s capabilities exceed those of any […]