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Hundreds of user conversations with Anthropic’s popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude were found to have been available to essentially anyone online.Links to the chats, some of which included personal and work information, would show up if a user of a search engine like Google used a site-specific search term.The searches showed Claude chats for which a user had decided to “share” a link had been saved by search engines like Google, leaving them accessible to the broader public.The search availability of the chat logs was removed over the weekend, but many were saved and shared widely online.A spokeswoman for…

A proof-of-concept exploit for “Certighost,” a Windows Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerability, has been released that can allow authenticated attackers to potentially compromise a Windows domain. Tracked as CVE-2026-54121, the vulnerability was fixed by Microsoft as part of the July 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates. “An authenticated attacker could manipulate attributes associated with a machine account and obtain a certificate from Active Directory Certificate Services that allows authentication as that machine via PKINIT,” Microsoft explained. If the attacker can target a domain controller account, Microsoft says they could authenticate as the domain controller and perform privileged Active Directory operations. Security…

Bottom line: Clarity isn’t likely to come up for voting before next week — the final days before the chamber’s summer break is set to start on August 8. The hotly debated market structure bill isn’t yet ready for a vote, anyway, as the parties continue to try to seek a compromise on a contentious provision that’s stood in the way of a deal: the ban against senior government officials, including President Donald Trump, backing crypto projects.Thune’s office had told CoinDesk last week that his next floor-time priority would go to the Russia legislation. While the majority leader also said…

Prostate cancer is notoriously difficult to treat with immunotherapy, a type of cancer treatment that helps the immune system identify and destroy tumors. Now, researchers have developed an experimental RNA targeting technology that may make prostate tumors far more vulnerable to an immune attack. Most prostate tumors are considered “immune cold” because they attract very few T cells (a type of immune cell). Without enough T cells entering the tumor, immunotherapy has little chance of working. In laboratory studies, scientists used a CRISPR-based tool to change RNA inside prostate cancer cells, effectively making the tumors more visible and attractive to…

The young people are campaigning for a new role to be established, similar to the Minister for Women and Equalities at Westminster, or the Deputy Minister for Social Care, Mental Health and Women’s Health in Wales. The Ballycastle-based group were drawn to the idea because, Pearse said: “A minister has a basic obligation to make legislation, and creating one could be a good step towards changing how women’s safety and healthcare is approached in government.”Aoísha O’Neill, 18, who is Pearse’s sister said establishing a dedicated Minister for Women’s Safety and Health would bring together women’s issues “so they can be…

Iran has stood up to two of the world’s most powerful militaries, held its position on the nuclear issue, and continued to back its Lebanese proxy. But if that represents a victory, it’s a Pyrrhic one when considered from an economic perspective. Iran has faced staggering losses to its military infrastructure and economy. Inflation has skyrocketed, the Iranian rial has plummeted, unemployment is high, and a U.S. blockade threatens trade in and out of the country. Iran has stood up to two of the world’s most powerful militaries, held its position on the nuclear issue, and continued to back its…

Origin Energy has admitted it was warned of the hack that accessed 900,000 current and former customers’ personal data three weeks before it first made the data breach public.Australia’s largest energy retailer said a “significant” proportion of the 900,000 had been former customers, with those affected to be notified in the coming days.Origin has said the data may include customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and account information, as well as the last four digits of a credit card, or the last three digits of a bank account.The company has 4.8m customer accounts in Australia, providing electricity, fossil…

Weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes, AI coding startup Cursor is making its biggest push into India yet, launching its first country-specific subscription as the company bets on one of the world’s largest developer markets to drive its next stage of growth. On Monday, the startup introduced Cursor Start, a ₹649-a-month (about $7) subscription built specifically for India — and priced well below Cursor’s standard $20-a-month Pro subscription. The move reflects India’s growing importance to Cursor’s business. The startup says India is already its third-largest market globally and home to its highest concentration of power users, with its…

Swati KhandelwalJul 28, 2026AI Security / Vulnerability Management Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specific model inside MDASH, its multi-model vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The company says MDASH, using MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and GPT-5.4, scored 95.95% on CyberGym. It also claims the configuration costs 50% less than its current best MDASH combination of GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, and GPT-5.3 Codex. Access is limited to approved MDASH customers through an Azure AI Foundry private preview. MAI-Cyber-1-Flash is designed to handle up to 90% of MDASH tasks, with GPT-5.4 reserved for the hardest 10%. It is available only inside MDASH, not as a standalone public…

Investors cashed out of American Bitcoin exchange-traded funds at the end of last week, ending a seven days winning streak.  Data from Farside Investors shows that over $475 million was redeemed from the investment products during trading hours on Thursday and Friday, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust handling most of the trading action.  Risk appetite appeared to be back, too: over a seven-day period, from July 14-22, the funds managed by the likes of Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, and Grayscale, took in just under $1 billion in new investment: $999.3 million.  The flurry of fresh cash put upwards pressure on the…