The Christmas number one formula (and why old songs do best)

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The Chinese cyber-attack that could have stolen data from every American

In 2024, reports emerged of a highly sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against US telecoms companies, which some analysts believe went all the way up to the Chinese government.The group behind this campaign would later be codenamed Salt Typhoon, and it is believed to have qu ...  Show more

Mythos: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ for public release

Anthropic, one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms, have built a new model which they say is too dangerous to be released to the public.Instead, they are only giving access to Claude Mythos Preview to a handful of big companies to help them find and fix security vulnerabilities. ...  Show more

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