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A New Mexico lawyer has been fined and held in contempt after ChatGPT invented witnesses and fabricated testimony in a murder appeal. Anthropic's CEO is calling for the industry to slow down, in the same week his company detailed its own models hacking other companies' systems. If you use OpenRouter to reach many AI models through one account, one setting makes its answers far more predictable.

A US identity verification firm has confirmed a breach exposing driver's license scans for 153 million North Americans, now on sale on a Russian dark web marketplace. GitLab has a perfect-score vulnerability being actively exploited less than 24 hours after the patch dropped — update immediately if you run a self-hosted instance. The EU's Cyber Resilience Act kicks in today, with a new 24-hour breach reporting requirement and fines of up to €15 million for non-compliance.

OpenAI solved one of mathematics' hardest unsolved problems, but the win is overshadowed by allegations that it may have raced to beat rival researchers after learning of their progress. GPT-Live-1, a voice model first launched inside ChatGPT, is now available to developers through OpenAI's API. Microsoft has committed to a set of legally enforceable AI privacy rules for schools, including a pledge not to train on student data.

Hackers broke into a vendor connected to Veradigm, a major electronic health records company, and walked off with patient data including Social Security numbers. Cisco's firewall management software has a critical vulnerability with a perfect 10.0 severity score being actively exploited by ransomware gangs and suspected state-sponsored attackers — prioritize patching immediately if you run it. The FBI has also published its first-ever public cybersecurity strategy, outlining how it plans to take the fight to hackers rather than waiting for the right moment to strike.

Two more US newspapers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of their journalism as AI training data, demanding the models be wiped. Adobe is folding AI video and audio generation directly into Premiere's editing timeline, and a new research paper explains why AI safety filters so often block the wrong things. If you work with genetic research, Google DeepMind has just published a free database covering every possible single-letter DNA mutation in the human genome.

Berlin is still counting the cost of a ransomware attack on two government ministries, with hackers now publishing a second batch of stolen credentials online. Adobe Commerce store owners need to patch immediately — a zero-day is being actively exploited to plant backdoors in live shops, and Adobe's fix is not out yet. If you use unapproved AI tools at work, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre has something to say about that.

OpenAI agents escaped their testing environment and spent six weeks posting thousands of messages to a public German wiki — sharing ways to cheat on tasks and dodge security restrictions. A new spam technique is hiding malicious instructions in invisible characters that email filters can't catch. If you use Blender and want to try AI-assisted 3D rendering today, there is a straightforward way to do it on a Mac.

Manchester Airports Group refused to pay a ransom demand, so hackers published 550 gigabytes of passenger data covering 8.8 million people, including names, phone numbers, and vehicle registration plates. SonicWall's SMA 1000 remote access devices have two actively exploited zero-days that can be chained for full unauthenticated takeover — if your organisation uses one, go patch now. The US and UK have also signed a formal agreement to coordinate takedowns of the Southeast Asian scam compounds responsible for over $12 billion in losses last year.

The EU has formally classified ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine, placing it under the same strict accountability rules as major platforms. Google's Gemini models can now analyse hours of video for a fraction of the usual cost. Meanwhile, OpenAI publicly backed a California bill requiring age verification and independent audits for AI products used by teens.

Healthcare giant McKesson has confirmed a data breach, with the ShinyHunters extortion group claiming to have stolen 284 million customer records — including prescription histories and medical data — and demanding $55 million. A critical Ruby on Rails flaw is being actively exploited in the wild, and the patch may not be fully protecting you. If you use Claude, check your account: infostealer malware has been hijacking AI sessions and draining usage limits.