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US water facilities targeted by ‘malicious cyber actors’ – who’s to blame?

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Despite Trump’s efforts to blame Tim Walz and Minnesota, officials suspect Iran behind attacks on US infrastructureLate last week, federal authorities issued a stern warning saying “malicious cyber actors” were targeting water and wastewater facilities in at least seven states across the US. Minnesota appeared to be the hardest hit with 30 of its water […]

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Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive

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Reflex AI has released XY, an Apache-2.0 Python charting library for interactive 2D visualization. Most Python charting stacks create one drawable object per row, so past a few hundred thousand points, render, hover, and zoom degrade. XY moves the work into a native Rust core, sends the browser typed binary buffers instead of JSON, and

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Reflex Open Sources XY: A Rust-Backed Super-Fast Python Charting Library That Keeps 100 Million Point Charts Interactive

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Reflex AI has released XY, an Apache-2.0 Python charting library for interactive 2D visualization. Most Python charting stacks create one drawable object per row, so past a few hundred thousand points, render, hover, and zoom degrade. XY moves the work into a native Rust core, sends the browser typed binary buffers instead of JSON, and

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Building an Advanced AI Skill Security Auditing Pipeline with NVIDIA SkillSpector, LangGraph, YARA Rules, SARIF, and CI Policy Gates

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In this tutorial, we build a workflow for evaluating the security posture of AI skills with NVIDIA SkillSpector. We create a synthetic skill marketplace containing clean, risky, malicious, and MCP-based examples, then scan each skill through SkillSpector’s LangGraph inspection pipeline. We examine risk scores, categorized findings, confidence levels, analyzer completeness, and executable-script indicators before organizing

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Metro Bank customer fights for £14,000 refund after AI-linked fraud

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Lender was told money was being taken without authorisation, with cash used to buy credits for Claude chatbotA Metro Bank customer has told of his fight to get more than £14,000 back after its systems failed to stop a fraud involving the AI chatbot Claude.Zoli Rutter, a businessman from Sussex, had a total of £14,244 taken

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Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licensed Multiplayer Agent Harness That Runs In Slack And The Web

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Y Combinator team has open-sourced QM (quartermaster), the multi-agent harness it uses internally. QM is described as a multiplayer agent harness for work, running in Slack and on the web. YC team runs QM across accounting, legal, events, and engineering, including building QM itself. The whole project ships under the MIT license. YC frames the

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‘Fortnite on steroids’: the virtual gaming worlds transformed to train British soldiers

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Inside Skyral, part of a consortium that won a £2bn MoD contract to help forces game out complex decisionsOn a sunny July day in Riga, Latvia, a Nato convoy drives down a street lined with kebab shops and a pharmacy. At a downtown intersection, there is the sound of an explosion and the lead tank

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Genspark Open Sources GenOffice: A Free, Ad-Free AI Office Suite for macOS and Windows with Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF

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Genspark has released GenOffice as open source under the Apache License 2.0. The repository describes it as an AI-native office suite for macOS and Windows: a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation editor and a PDF tool. The implementation is five Electron apps sharing one engine layer, built around AI editing as a first-class workflow

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Can you tell if someone is filming you with Meta glasses? – video

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Meta glasses – they’re everywhere, and people have a lot of opinions. Mostly about their ability to take photos and videos. Rafqa Touma speaks to Guardian Australia’s technology reporter, Josh Taylor, lifestyle editor, Alyx Gorman, and the Human Technology Institute’s responsible technology policy specialist, Lauren Perry. Continue reading…

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Evaluating Multimodal Vision Models with Moonshot PerceptionBench Using Robust Data Loading and Automated Judging

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In this tutorial, we design an end-to-end evaluation workflow for PerceptionBench. This multimodal benchmark measures fine-grained visual perception capabilities across tasks such as OCR, counting, localization, contextual reasoning, comparison, depth understanding, and hallucination detection. We begin by configuring a Colab-compatible environment, installing the required libraries, and loading a balanced subset of the dataset through a

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