Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

"Low-effort slop": The creators of the Godot engine behind Slay the Spire 2 are cracking down on "vibe-coding" and now require genAI disclosures

The Godot Foundation have announced a crackdown on genAI code, including mandatory disclosures, following a wave of ...
9to5Google

Claude Fable 5 is making a dramatic return with ‘extraordinarily strong’ safeguards

After being taken down by order of the US government, Fable 5 is returning to Claude’s model library. Because of the new restrictions, Fable 5 might just be Opus 4.8 in a mask. Anthropic says Fable 5 ...

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.6 to challenge Claude Mythos 5

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-5.6, a new series of large language models that it says can outperform Claude Mythos 5 ...

Buckle Up: The Bad Guys Now Have A Model As Powerful As Mythos

China now has an open-weight model that can find software vulnerabilities and create attacks for anybody to use.
PCMag

Fable 5 Is Back After Anthropic Irons Out Security Concerns With US Government

Mythos 5 has also been restored 'for a set of US organizations.' Anthropic says it will work with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, ...
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OpenAI Says GPT-5.5-Cyber Leads Claude Mythos, Expands Daybreak-Initiative

OpenAI is now turning its Daybreak initiative into a defensive cybersecurity program that combines Codex updates, the GPT-5.5-Cyber release and partner access for approved organizations. As OpenAI ...
Publishers Weekly

Vonnegut’s War: The Making of Slaughterhouse-Five

Historian Chabal (France) offers an enthralling intellectual biography of “communist polymath” and historian Eric Hobsbawm. Born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, to English-Jewish Continue reading » The ...