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OpenAI has expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program and given some partners access to GPT-5.6-Cyber, a new model designed to be less likely to refuse higher-risk cyber tasks. The company said it is also widening Daybreak access to Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike, Cisco, Sophos and Cloudflare, which will use the models in the program to protect customers. […]

An AI agent hacked a gym booking system and removed another person from a waiting list while trying to secure a class spot for an Australian user, ABC reported. The user, Andrew, asked the assistant to get him into one of his gym’s morning classes. The agent then booked the class months in advance, despite […]

A security operations centre used to run on a simple premise: collect enough logs, write proper rules and hope an analyst catches the alert that matters before the one that doesn’t buries it. That process is under strain. CrowdStrike’s 2026 threat data puts average breakout time, the gap between initial compromise and lateral movement, at […]

In today’s digital economy, organizations generate enormous amounts of data. Yet data alone has little value unless it can be transformed into meaningful insights that support better decisions. For more than sixteen years, iDataScientist’s founder Daniel Sundararaj has built a career around solving that challenge. iDataScientist is a specialized consulting practice dedicated to advanced cloud […]

Clemson University has unveiled Deep Orange 17, a solar-integrated electric vehicle prototype developed with BMW that is designed to generate more energy than it uses during a typical day of urban commuting. The prototype uses more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells embedded across its exterior and, based on modeled conditions in four cities, produced enough surplus […]

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that developed tools for turning prompts, notes, documents and research into editable presentations. The company’s team is now working on ChatGPT. NextSlide founder Ahmed Beshry said the startup aimed to make visual communication more accessible by helping users turn ideas and source material into polished presentations. He said the […]