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The state athletic commission ordered a robotics startup to halt human-versus-robot cage matches after a YouTuber faced off against multiple humanoids in San Francisco.
An Iranian-Turkish national has been handed over to American authorities from Montenegro to face charges related to a sprawling hacking operation that compromised hundreds of institutions and extracted vast quantities of stolen data.
As artificial intelligence speeds up vulnerability discovery and exploit development, the traditional approach of scanning for CVEs and assigning severity scores is breaking down. Security teams must shift from counting vulnerabilities to understanding which flaws actually threaten their systems.
Two critical security flaws in Asus routers allow attackers to run arbitrary commands, with one vulnerability rated 9.4 on the CVSS severity scale.
State Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed OpenAI to investigate cybersecurity incidents involving the company's AI models, signaling a shift toward holding developers legally accountable for unintended harms caused by their systems.
A New York federal court has cleared the way for a lawsuit by three major labor unions challenging what they say is viewpoint-based monitoring of their members' online activity by the State and Homeland Security departments.
Governor Newsom signed legislation requiring 3D printer makers to incorporate firearm-blocking capabilities once an industry standard emerges, making California the second state to impose such restrictions on the technology.
A monthslong compromise of Defense Department systems has compromised the records of 2.8 million military members and former service members, marking the second major breach of sensitive U.S. government data in recent months.
