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Australia Raises Alarm Over AI Scribes Listening In on Doctor Visits
Federal health officials are warning that AI tools recording patient conversations in GP clinics may pose serious privacy risks, and regulators are now weighing whether new rules are needed.

Samsung's New Galaxy S26 Ultra Has a Screen That Blocks Nosy Neighbours — But Is That a Security Feature?
The phone's built-in privacy display is a neat hardware trick. What it can't do is protect the data sitting behind the glass.

Five Eyes spy chiefs warn AI is shrinking the window to stop cyberattacks — and boards need to act now
The heads of five Western cybersecurity agencies say artificial intelligence is already changing how fast criminals can strike, and the warning is aimed squarely at company boards, not IT teams.

AI Scams Trick Millions of Americans, Cost $68 Billion
A Gallup survey puts a hard number on the AI scam epidemic: 15 million victims, $68 billion lost, and a data gap that leaves the U.S. flying blind.

New Chinese AI Models Challenge Cyber Defenses
Two new Chinese AI models can find software vulnerabilities faster and cheaper than most defenders can patch them.

An AI Agent Ran a Ransomware Attack by Itself. Here's What That Means.
Criminals used an AI tool called Langflow to let a machine plan and carry out a multi-step ransomware intrusion without a human guiding every move, a shift that could make attacks faster and cheaper to run at scale.

OpenAI's New AI Model Faces Unprecedented Government Scrutiny
OpenAI restricts GPT-5.6 Sol to Trump-approved partners while federal cybersecurity review rules are still being written.

Anthropic's Fable 5 AI Is Back Online After a Three-Week Government Ban
The U.S. Commerce Department lifted its export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 model Tuesday, after weeks of closed-door negotiations over whether the AI could be weaponised by bad actors.

Five Eyes spy agencies warn AI will outpace cybersecurity defences within months
The intelligence alliance linking the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand says AI-powered attacks are arriving faster than most organisations can adapt, and breaches are now a question of when, not if.

Criminals Are Stealing AI Computing Power From Companies That Left a Door Open
Security researchers set traps and caught three separate groups hijacking exposed AI software endpoints to run hacking tools, no password required.

A Year of Testing Has Cooled Security Teams' Enthusiasm for AI-Run Hacking Drills
Companies that hoped AI could fully replace human security testers have pulled back sharply. New data shows only 9% still trust fully automated systems, down from nearly a third just twelve months ago.

An AI Coding Tool Built Into Millions of Developer Setups Had a Flaw That Could Hand Hackers Your Cloud Keys
A security hole in Amazon's AI coding assistant let criminals steal cloud credentials just by getting a developer to open a poisoned folder. It's patched, but the attack method is spreading.

This Researcher Is Designing Clothes That Break Facial Recognition Software
A security researcher plans to unveil clothing patterns that confuse the AI systems governments use to track people in public, without their knowledge or consent.

The Automation Nobody Reviewed: How AI-Built Workflows Are Quietly Leaking Enterprise Data
A developer asked an AI to speed up a document approval process. It worked perfectly and exposed sensitive HR files to hundreds of colleagues. This is happening across businesses right now.

A Fake Error Message Hijacked AI Coding Assistants — and Security Tools Saw Nothing
Researchers planted a single bogus bug report in a popular developer service and watched AI coding agents obediently run the attackers' code. No password stolen. No alarm raised.