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Submission + - OpenAI Widens Access to Cybersecurity Model After Anthropic's Mythos (securityweek.com) 1

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model that will be offered to many defenders. OpenAI announced that it’s scaling its Trusted Access for Cyber program to thousands of verified defenders and hundreds of security teams. They will be given access to GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned variant of GPT-5.4 that relaxes the usual guardrails for legitimate cybersecurity work.

The announcement comes in the wake of Anthropic’s release of Claude Mythos, a new and powerful AI model allegedly capable of autonomously discovering thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. This led Anthropic to withhold its public release and instead offer it only to a few dozen major organizations through a restricted program called Project Glasswing.

Submission + - 30 WordPress plugins turned into malware after ownership change (anchor.host)

Submitted by axettone
axettone writes: Many website creators and their clients appreciate the ability to extend their site’s functionality through plugins. However, the governance policies of open source projects are increasingly revealing flaws far more serious than those found in the code itself. In this case, a company legally took ownership of an open source project, only to transform it — months later — into a trojan horse.
According to the source, this issue has been resolved by the WordPress team, but it is necessary to check whether your site has been compromised and, if so, clean up the malicious code.

Comment Re: He's Not Wrong. (Score 1) 221

by Z00L00K (#66096002) Attached to: US Jobs Too Important To Risk Chinese Car Imports, Says Ford CEO

That's what car manufacturers should have done decades ago.
Today the big three are creating dinosaurs that few actually want and can afford as well as being hard to repair. Protectionism is a time bomb waiting to blow up and devastate the economy.
Most people want reasonably priced vehicles with decent comfort that don't annoy and distract them just because the car thinks that something needs attention that's irrelevant.

Submission + - Young hacker behind historic breach speaks out for 1st time (abcnews.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: On a recent Tuesday morning, as his parents were driving him to the federal prison in Connecticut where he'll be locked up for the foreseeable future, 20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News.

"It's extremely sad, and I'm just scared," he wrote.

Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what's been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history — a data breach that concerned authorities so much, it prompted briefings with senior government officials inside the White House Situation Room.

Submission + - Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a userâ(TM)s browser even if they opted out of tracking. Each company disputed or took issue with the research, with Google saying it was based on a âoefundamental misunderstandingâ of how its product works.

Submission + - Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy (the-independent.com) 2

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Seven countries now generate nearly all of their electricity from renewable energy sources, according to newly compiled figures.

Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.

Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) also revealed that a further 40 countries generated at least 50 per cent of the electricity they consumed from renewable energy technologies in 2021 and 2022 – including 11 European countries.

“We don’t need miracle technologies,” said Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson, who published the data.

“We need to stop emissions by electrifying everything and providing the electricity with Wind, Water and Solar (WWS), which includes onshore wind, solar photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, geothermal electricity, small hydroelectricity, and large hydroelectricity.”

Professor Jacobson also noted that other countries like Germany were also capable of running off 100 per cent renewable-generated electricity for short periods of time.

Figures released by the IEA in January show that the UK generated 41.5 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2022 – up 10.5 per cent from the year before.

In Scotland, renewable energy technologies generated the equivalent of 113 per cent of the country’s overall electricity consumption in 2022.

Submission + - EU parliament fails to renew loophole allowing tech firms to report abuse (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'The European parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits big tech firms to scan for child sexual exploitation on their platforms, creating a legal gap that child safety experts say will lead to crimes going undetected.

'The law, which was a carve-out of the EU Privacy Act, was put in place in 2021 as a temporary measure allowing companies to use automated detection technologies to scan messages for harms, including child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming and sextortion. However, it expired on 3 April, and the EU parliament decided not to vote to extend it, amid privacy concerns from some lawmakers.

'The regulatory gap has created uncertainty for big tech companies, because while scanning for harms on their platforms is now illegal, they still remain liable to remove any illegal content hosted on their platforms under a different law, the Digital Services Act. Google, Meta, Snap and Microsoft said they would continue to voluntarily scan their platforms for CSAM, in a joint statement posted on a Google blog.'

Child abuse as the excuse for avoiding privacy protections. Who would have thought it?

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