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

The U.S. government’s enforcement letter to Anthropic, which effectively forced the company to pull its latest AI models...

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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models | TechCrunch

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an...

a screenshot from the FBI's Kinetic Cyber Range video, showing the FBI's model town cross walk, including a business center, and a light post, inside a large warehouse space.
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The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks | TechCrunch

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pulling back the curtain on a 22,000-square-foot replica town on its Huntsville,...

Google logo is seen at Google stand during 18th European Economic Congress at the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland on April 22, 2026.
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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google | TechCrunch

Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation.On Friday, the tech giant...

Oracle Corp. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Friday, April 10, 2026.
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Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies | TechCrunch

Oracle warned its corporate customers that there is a critical-rated vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software, which is used...

North Korean soldiers attend a mass rally to celebrate the North's declaration on November 29 it had achieved full nuclear statehood, on Kim Il-Sung Square in Pyongyang on December 1, 2017. North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un declared the country had achieved a "historic cause" of becoming a nuclear state, its state media said on November 29, after the country tested an intercontinental ballistic missile earlier in the day.
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North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike | TechCrunch

A new report by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike found North Korean hackers posing as remote IT workers and online...

The Claude Fable logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone placed on a reflective surface onto which the company's icon is projected.
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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable | TechCrunch

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its...

ServiceNow logo at Singapore FinTech Festival in November 2023.
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ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet | TechCrunch

Cloud technology giant ServiceNow has notified some of its enterprise customers that a software bug on its platform...

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Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers | TechCrunch

Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates...

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WhatsApp says it caught new spyware attacks linked to NSO Group in violation of court order | TechCrunch

WhatsApp said that it disrupted a new hacking campaign linked to NSO Group, a spyware maker that has...