Five Eyes Countries Ask for Encryption Backdoors for the Umpteenth Time
Hackney Council hit by cyberattack, Doctorow publishes third in Little Brother series and more.
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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.
Google debuts Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for autonomous vulnerability discovery
The security-tuned model found and patched more flaws than larger commercial models at a fraction of the cost, according to early testing by Google and Wiz.
OpenAI’s Astra crosses the critical cyber threshold
Astra discovered and exploited two zero-days in testing, prompting OpenAI to restrict its most powerful cyber capabilities while deploying safeguards against both malicious users and unauthorized actions by the AI itself.