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CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang

CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang: Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used across the government. Read More

Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? : If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI. Read More

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today: Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology. Read More

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