Aug 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
The United States is pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn a settler siege on Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Qusra. The weeklong standoff has trapped dozens of Palestinians, with the UN reporting 15 people, including two children, without water or electricity. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the settlers “Israeli terrorists.” Netanyahu faces political risk in condemning settlers ahead of elections.
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Aug 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
NATO jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace on Friday, as Russia downed dozens of Ukrainian drones near St Petersburg. The UN reported that July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since 2022. Meanwhile, Ukraine struck Russian ports and refineries, and a suspected Russian assassination plot was foiled in Poland.
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Aug 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
The Trump administration is reportedly expanding its secretive AI safety framework to include advanced open models. The move comes amid concerns that restricting open models would harm American competitiveness. Industry leaders have split over the issue, with companies like Meta and Microsoft urging approval while Anthropic stays cautious.
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Aug 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
A federal appeals court rejected Meta's attempt to dismiss thousands of lawsuits alleging that social media platforms are deliberately addictive. The ruling opens the door for over 3,000 cases against Meta, Google, Snap, and ByteDance to go to trial. This follows a landmark bellwether verdict earlier this year and could expose tech giants to billions in damages. The decision also weakens Section 230 protections by framing it as a defense, not immunity.
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Aug 15, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
A team from UC San Diego and Oberlin College has created a coin-sized, Wi-Fi-enabled device that can compromise Boeing 737 avionics in under 60 seconds. The prototype, which costs less than $100, plugs into an accessible maintenance bay and can alter flight plans or feed false data to pilots. The research highlights how physical access, not just network threats, remains a weak point in aviation cybersecurity. Boeing says existing safeguards are sufficient, but experts are urging tighter ground security.
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Aug 14, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Future AGI is an open-source, self-hostable platform for building and shipping self-improving AI agents. It provides tracing, evaluation, simulation, and guardrailing for LLM agents under the Apache 2.0 license. The platform includes an OpenAI-compatible gateway, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and 18 built-in security scanners. Operators who want full privacy can disable telemetry before the first boot.
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Aug 14, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
ShieldFont is a web font that displays the original text to human readers while serving a decoy version to scrapers. Created by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, it makes AI scraping more expensive without breaking the reading experience. The project maps thousands of word pairs and is available free on GitHub.
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Aug 14, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
In an interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, discusses what the first year of EU AI Act Article 50 enforcement may look like. He predicts corrective orders will outweigh major fines, explains when AI agents interacting via ticket queues count as direct interaction, and offers advice on simulated phishing with cloned voices. He also weighs where the first enforcement case may originate and the accountability questions clients keep asking.
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Aug 14, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
A new pilot study finds that AI-generated spear phishing messages are nearly impossible for people to identify by instinct. Job-related themes far outperformed hobby or social media lures. A machine learning classifier spotted the AI messages with 88.7% accuracy, but humans barely beat chance.
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