The only way to fight deepfakes is by making deepfakes
… Pindrop Security and its third-party providers record the audio and video of your meeting to determine whether you’re a real person and/or the right person. …
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Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces
… Describing the reasons for the meeting, a source familiar with the negotiations said “it would be grossly irresponsible for the U.S. government to deprive itself of the technological leaps that the new model presents” and that “it would be a gift to China.” The outlet also reported that “some parts… …
Attack of the killer script kiddies
… The Cloud Security Alliance released an expedited strategy briefing on developing a “Mythos-ready” security plan detailing many of these concepts. …
Netflix’s new studio will produce animated shorts with generative AI
… Netflix has been building a new internal studio called INKubator that aims to use AI to produce short-form animated content: The streamer is hiring for a wide variety of roles, including producers, software engineers, and CG artists to staff INKubator, according to a number of recently published jo… …
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
… When Bessent and Wiles met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in April, it signaled that not only were they taking the threat seriously, they were now overriding Anthropic’s enemies in the Pentagon, who had, months prior, convinced Trump that Anthropic was “woke” and should be banned for government us… …
GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft
… While the outages are driving some developers away, GitHub is also struggling with security issues. …
Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk
… Musk’s basic, oft-repeated story during this week’s testimony has been that OpenAI is “stealing a charity” and “looting a nonprofit.” He maintains that he was all right with some limited for-profit activity, but not anything that would overshadow OpenAI’s nonprofit work and constitute “the tail wag… …
Inside Microsoft’s wave of executive departures
… This pushed former security chief Charlie Bell out of the role, in a move that many employees inside the company view as a response to Microsoft’s struggles with security in recent years. As the dust settled on the security changes at Microsoft we saw an even bigger departure. …
Inside the return of Xbox
… Sharma didn’t reveal much more about Project Helix during her all-hands, though. “We have to deliver Project Helix as a big step forward, for our console games and also our PC games, as well as performance and security,” said Sharma. …
Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks
…And please — I’m in DC, I can’t help myself — we absolutely need secure borders. This country absolutely needs secure borders, and, for so many of the people who are here…