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"Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a new AI model capable of discovering critical vulnerabilities at scale," writes Slashdot reader wiredmikey. "It's already powering Project Glasswing, a joint effort with major tech firms to secure critical software. But the same capabilities could also accelerate offensive cyber operations." SecurityWeek reports: Mythos is not an incremental improvement but a step change in performance over Anthropic's current range of frontier models: Haiku (smallest), Sonnet (middle ground), and Opus (most powerful). Mythos sits in a fourth tier named Copybara, and Anthropic describes it as superior to any other existing AI frontier model. It incorporates the current trend in the use of AI: the modern use of agentic AI. "The powerful cyber capabilities of Claude Mythos Preview are a result of its strong agentic coding and reasoning skills... the model has the highest scores of any model yet developed on a variety of software coding tasks," notes Anthropic in a blog titled Project Glasswing -- Securing critical software for the AI era. In the last few weeks, Mythos Preview has identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities with many classified as critical. Several are ten or 20 years old -- the oldest found so far is a 27-years old bug in OpenBSD. Elsewhere, a 16-years old vulnerability found in video software has survived five million hits from other automated testing tools without ever being discovered. And it autonomously found and chained together several in the Linux kernel allowing an attacker to escalate from ordinary user access to complete control of the machine. [...] Anthropic is concerned that Mythos' capabilities could unleash cyberattacks too fast and too sophisticated for defenders to block. It hopes that Mythos can be used to improve cybersecurity generally before malicious actors can get access to it. To this end, the firm has announced the next stage of this preparation as Project Glasswing, powered by Mythos Preview. Given the rate of AI progress, it will not be long before such capabilities proliferate, potentially beyond actors who are committed to deploying them safely. "Project Glasswing is a starting point. No one organization can solve these cybersecurity problems alone: frontier AI developers, other software companies, security researchers, open-source maintainers, and governments across the world all have essential roles to play." Claude Mythos Preview is described as a general-purpose, unreleased frontier model from Anthropic that has nevertheless completed its training phase. The firm does not plan to make Mythos Preview generally available. The implication is that 'Preview' is a term used solely to describe the current state of Mythos and the market's readiness to receive it, and will be dropped when the firm gets closer to general release.

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Aaron Carter's mother had accused her late son's estate of undervaluing his assets and favoring his former fiancée. The singer was found dead in his bath tub at 34 on November 5, 2022.

The promise of speedy delivery has been the key to success for retail behemoth Amazon, winning over nine in ten UK shoppers.

Emily Ratajkowski flashed her famous bust in a new series of photos shared on Instagram. The model uploaded sexy snapshots from a trip to Tokyo with her new boyfriend, French director Romain Gavras.

Pair backs scraper blocking and standards to separate trusted agents from bad bots

Citing the need to adapt to an internet increasingly serving the needs of AI agents without considering the needs of site owners, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering on efforts to control how AIs crawl the web and interact with web content.…

Ron Black became so concerned at the potential national security risks behind moving the head office of Imagination Technologies that he informed British intelligence officers.

Christopher Maurice Lee, 38, was arrested on Saturday in a small North Carolina town after he allegedly dunked his girlfriend's seven-year-old daughter under water as she begged him to stop.

Tyler Adams, 54, appeared in court for identity theft charges related to escaping state prison in Hawaii and the murder of his girlfriend in Mexico.

Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X]

Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the Human[X] conference, welcomed attendees to the AI-focused bitshow in San Francisco with the promise that they would receive no certainty and no playbook.…

The 'humiliated' reality star, 34, recently said she has 'nothing left' following her split from the footballer who she accused of 'cheating on her multiple times over ten years'.

Public sector staff including town hall officials would be banned from enjoying a four-day week on full pay under a future Tory government.

We have given £500 to five experts in different fields (and to our own investing monkey) and challenged them to turn it into £10,000 as quickly as possible.

Chrome is finally adding built-in vertical tabs, "which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window, making it easier to read full page titles and manage tab groups," reports TechCrunch. The company is also introducing an immersive reading mode for a distraction-free, text-focused experience. From the report: The company notes that the new vertical tabs can be enabled at any time by right-clicking on a Chrome window and selecting "Show Tabs Vertically." The company says there's no hard limit on the number of tabs that can be opened (beyond what would be limited already by the user's hardware). The vertical tabs work just as the horizontal tabs do, meaning you can have different Chrome windows with their own set of tabs or tab groups. [...] Alongside the launch of vertical tabs, Chrome is also rolling out a new Reading Mode experience, which will offer a full-page interface to make it even easier to reduce on-screen clutter to focus on the text. This will be the new default experience for Chrome users, and arrives at a time when web pages, particularly those on news sites, have become cluttered with ads and prompts to subscribe to newsletters.

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The Daily Mail stunned the world by publishing photos of Kristi Noem's clean-cut husband Bryon wearing enormous fake breasts and hot pants. Now, his secret confidante has spoken out...

Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens?

Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data.…

Space is just the next stop on the AI hype train, right after AGI

In the realm of his other unrealistic plans and potentially broken promises, Elon Musk's Terafab stands out as one of the biggest pipedreams, promising to boost semiconductor production by 50x for the benefit of orbital datacenters. But hey, this idea must have legs, because now Intel has announced it is joining the aspiring Bond villain's initiative.…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Following on the heels of the landmark Cox v. Sony ruling, the Supreme Court has vacated the contributory copyright infringement verdict against ISP Grande Communications, ordering the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision in light of the new precedent. [...] The order (PDF) effectively removes the case from the Supreme Court docket, urging the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to take another look at its decision in light of the new ruling. Given the similarities between the two cases, it is no surprise that the Supreme Court came to this conclusion. It is now up to the Fifth Circuit to revisit whether Grande's conduct meets the intent threshold that was established in Cox. That is a significantly higher bar than the one applied in the original verdict, which found that continuing to provide service to known infringers was enough to establish material contribution. The music companies previously said they sent over a million copyright infringement notices, but that Grande failed to terminate even a single subscriber account in response. However, without proof of active inducement, these absolute numbers carry less weight now. Whether this translates into a win for Grande on remand remains to be seen. For now, however, the original $47 million verdict is further away than ever.

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The tee times for Thursday and Friday's rounds have now been confirmed, with McIlroy set to tee it up with the 18-year-old, as well as fellow superstar Cameron Young - who is still chasing his first major title.

The birth of a first child should be one of life's most joyous milestones - a blur of first smiles, tiny fingers and proud new parents watching every precious moment unfold.

I was reminded of the difference between dating an 'age appropriate' man and a toyboy when I was enjoying a Sunday brunch. A car that had seen better days pulled up and out popped Dina Broadhurst...