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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic announces Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that will use its Claude Mythos Preview model to help find and fix software vulnerabilities — Today we're announcing Project Glasswing1, a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom …
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Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net and @ianbetteridge@social …
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/linux, r/cybersecurity, r/ClaudeAI, r/cybersecurity, r/Anthropic, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview is a general-purpose model and found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major OS and web browser — Earlier today we announced Claude Mythos Preview, a new general-purpose language model. This model performs strongly across the board …
More: Help Net Security, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
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LinkedIn: Rich Mogull, Rogier Fischer, David Seidman, and Ethan Mollick. Bluesky: @martin.kleppmann.com. Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/programare, r/openbsd, r/accelerate, and Lobsters
| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says it will make Claude Mythos Preview available to 40+ organizations that maintain critical software and doesn't plan to make it generally available — Anthropic on Tuesday released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, which it says will be used by a small coterie of partner organizations for cybersecurity work.
More: Axios. X: @david_kasten, @joshkale, @anthropicai, @charlesd353, and @jayair
LinkedIn: Anthropic and Bennie Seybold
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic's Project Glasswing launch partners include AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks — ZDNET's key takeaways — AI found thousands of hidden bugs in critical systems. — Tech rivals unite to secure shared infrastructure risks.
More: Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Cyber Daily, Yahoo Finance, Barron's Online, and CNBC
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic says Mythos Preview achieves 93.9% on SWE-bench Verified, compared with 80.8% for Opus 4.6, and 77.8% on SWE-bench Pro, above 53.4% for Opus 4.6 — Anthropic on Tuesday announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier AI model …
More: Anthropic, Gizmodo, and CNBC
X: @mweinbach, @kimmonismus, @fabknowledge, @neilhtennek, @deedydas, @fabknowledge, @yuchenj_uw, @apompliano, and @yuchenj_uw. Forums: r/technology
| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
Anthropic commits up to $100M in usage credits for Project Glasswing, along with $4M in direct donations to open-source security organizations — The program comes as the tech industry races to secure software before similar AI-powered offensive capabilities become too much for defenders to handle.| Brent D. Griffiths / Business Insider: |
More: Moneycontrol, Livemint, Digit, Blockonomi, The Indian Express, Benzinga, Runtime, Latent.Space, Financial Times, and The Information
Forums: r/popculturechat, r/inthenews, and r/ClaudeAI
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B-parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under an MIT license — Is China picking back up the open source AI baton? — Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, a Chinese AI startup best known for its powerful …
More: Z.ai, Z.ai on Hugging Face, TestingCatalog, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The FBI, the NSA, and other US agencies warn that Iran-linked hackers targeted industrial control devices used in critical US water and energy infrastructure — As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks against US critical infrastructure.
More: CISA, NBC News, New York Times, The Register, CNET, Newser, Defense One, CRN, TechCrunch, Nextgov/FCW, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, and CyberScoop
X: @cisacyber and @ericgeller
Forums: r/PrepperIntel and r/pwnhub
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
FBI: US victims lost ~$21B to cybercrime in 2025, up 26% YoY, driven by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches — U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise …
More: Federal Bureau …, Risky Business, The Record, iTnews, The Cyber Express, Help Net Security, Forbes, Cointelegraph, ZeroHedge News, Gizmodo, CyberScoop, Security Boulevard, PYMNTS.com, Bitcoin News, The Register, NewsMax.com, CoinDesk, Infosecurity, The Crypto Times, Decrypt, TechRadar, Bitcoin Magazine, and Telecompaper
| Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal: |
Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and Sam Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board — Tesla billionaire also seeks Sam Altman's removal from OpenAI nonprofit's board in amendment to suit over for-profit conversion| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic — Russian government-linked hackers are compromising popular internet routers to steal passwords for email accounts and other online services … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act — Quick Take — The FDIC voted to propose a rule that would set forth standards for stablecoin issuers, including requirements involving reserve assets.
More: FDIC, Blockonomi, Blockchain.News, crypto.news, American Banker, Forbes, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, NewsBTC, Bitcoin Magazine, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, CoinDesk, and Bloomberg
X: @fdicgov and @chadsteingraber
| Jude Joffe-Block / NPR: |
Letter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers — Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using spyware tools that can intercept encrypted messages as part of the agency's efforts …
More: CyberScoop. Bluesky: @joparkerbear, @durumcrustulum.com, and @accen. Mastodon: @eff@mastodon.social
Forums: r/technology and r/politics
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic hires Microsoft executive Eric Boyd as head of infrastructure; Boyd oversaw Microsoft's AI platform and worked at the company for 16 years — Anthropic PBC has hired a senior leader from Microsoft Corp. to lead its push to establish the infrastructure needed to support growing adoption … | Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
Intel says it will join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help produce processors for robotics and data centers — Intel (INTC.O) said on Tuesday it would join Elon Musk's Terafab AI chip complex project along with SpaceX, Tesla (TSLA.O) and xAI.
More: The Register, Business Today, Electronics Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Electrek, Mobile World Live, CIO.com, The American Bazaar, Data Center Knowledge, DigiTimes, Motley Fool, SiliconANGLE, crypto.news, Silicon Valley Business …, Yahoo Finance, and Bloomberg
X: @intel, @lipbutan1, @spacex, @charlesliang, @patrickmoorhead, @kevinsxu, @elonmusk, @tesla, @benbajarin, @benbajarin, @beffjezos, @laurengoode, @michaelnicollsx, @elonmusk, @edludlow, @robertgraham, @magicsilicon, @benbajarin, @himanshustwts, @jukan05, and @alex_intel_
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/intel
| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits “to celebrate 3M weekly codex users” and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M — To celebrate 3 million weekly codex users, we are resetting usage limits. We will do this every million users up to 10 million. Happy building!
X: @ajambrosino, @andrewjiang, @scaling01, and @rahll
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple will announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays — Apple Inc.'s first foldable phone is on track to arrive during the company's normal iPhone launch period later this year …
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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Lance Whitney / ZDNET: |
Google updates Chrome with vertical tabs, a feature that Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge have long offered, and a new full-screen layout in reading mode — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google has started rolling out vertical tabs in Chrome. — With vertical tabs, all your open web pages appear in a sidebar.
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X: @googlechrome, @newsfromgoogle, @tobi, @google, @sundarpichai, @google, @_kevintong, @tahrahoops, @jeffdean, and @collision. Mastodon: @jon@henshaw.social. Forums: r/browsers
| New York Times: |
An investigation suggests Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a British cryptographer who invented Hashcash, is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto — One evening in the fall of 2024, my wife and I were sitting in traffic on the Long Island Expressway when, tired of listening …
More: New York Times and New York Times
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Bluesky: @tonytassell and @tonytassell
| Ana Faguy / BBC: |
Bill Gates is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee on June 10 about his Epstein ties; Gates says he's “looking forward” to answering questions — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is set to testify before the US congress in June about his interactions … | Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Asus Zenbook A16 review: Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme is speedy and 48GB of RAM is great for $1,599, but the chassis feels cheap and the battery life lags rivals — It's not all about what's on the inside. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
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X: @mweinbach, @snapdragon_uk, @thegalox_, @patrickmoorhead, @sebaaltonen, @carygolomb, @goatecpro, @daniel_rubino, @mattmoniz, and @vadimyuryev. Forums: r/hardware
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