Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 8/6/22
How the Jester created CounterSocial, High-tech surveillance along the Arizona border is deadly, Faux CIA operative and cyber firm owner scammed victims, Why ransomware persists
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US accuses Chinese AI firms of ‘malicious’ copying at industrial scale
Officials say DeepSeek, Alibaba and four other companies exploited leading American AI models to accelerate development of their own products, escalating tensions ahead of a planned Trump-Xi meeting
OpenAI’s tightly constrained agent probe missed an earlier warning
The company restricted outside investigators to a period that excluded previously undisclosed agent activity, raising questions about whether AI labs should control investigations of their own safety failures.
Agents, algorithms and false assurances: Best infosec long reads 9/5/26
A rogue AI agent goes hacking, AI vulnerability patches fail tougher tests, Inside the uncertain quantum-computing race, Faulty math fuels election-fraud claims, When “national security” becomes a trade weapon
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra with ‘critical’ cyber capabilities tightly restricted
The company is giving Daybreak participants first access to its powerful new model after an unrelated AI escape and Hugging Face breach prompted additional safeguards.