Commerce Department Rule Seeks to Bar Sales of Hacking Software, Gear to Repressive Regimes
FCC Commissioner seeks to impose restrictions on Chinese drone maker, Widely used spyware can expose sensitive files on targeted phones,
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Alibaba’s Qwen races past Meta, Google with 3 billion AI model downloads
Alibaba’s Qwen family of open-weight AI models has surpassed 3 billion downloads in six months, making it the world’s most-downloaded open model ecosystem, ahead of Google and Meta. Qwen, has open-sourced more than 460 models, and its ecosystem has spawned 300l-plus derivatives/
AI, surveillance and the control problem: Best infosec long reads 8/15/26
How a jury-duty scam stole $25,000, When adversaries can just buy the data, The surveillance dragnet hiding in plain sight, AI hallucinations create new openings for attackers, When Big Tech can read your thoughts, When bots start talking to bots
Trump's private cyber offensive wins support — and plenty of alarm
The cybersecurity community largely agrees that the US needs to hit cybercriminals harder. But Trump's plan to enlist private companies to do it has opened a thicket of questions about attribution, liability, escalation and who pays when an operation goes wrong.
White House expands its cyber reach with expanded AI policy, new cybercrime memo
The Trump administration, long associated with deregulation, is asserting new control over cyber operations via a reported expansion of its testing framework for frontier AI models and a stunning program that allows vetted private firms to run offensive cyber operations against foreign criminals.