Anthropic has been shopping a draft federal AI safety bill to Congress, according to Politico and reported by TechCrunch. An Anthropic spokesperson confirmed it reflects the company's Advanced AI Framework, which it has promoted to federal and state lawmakers since June. The bill would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a…
Automotive AI startup IQ.Lvbs claims that between October 7 and 14, 2026 it faced repeated attempts to steal its NovaSpark driving model, access users' devices and private driving files, and exploit its sign-in system. The company says the first requests came from an IP address assigned to Comma.ai Inc., a rival whose camera hardware Nova…
CISA added six vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Four affect Plex Media Server: CVE-2026-96652 and CVE-2026-96655 (SSRF), CVE-2026-96654 (improper neutralization of encoded URI schemes) and CVE-2026-96656 (external control of file name or path). The other two are…
SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue in a regulatory filing, with its AI business now accounting for 52% of income. The renamed "Super Intelligence" segment includes the recently acquired Cursor coding tool, the Grok bot and a neocloud business with 1.7 GW of compute. Net income was $4.4 billion, against a $1 billion los…
GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it will close the Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant south of Detroit, as first reported by Automotive News. The site assembled battery packs for the Cadillac Celestiq and electric drive units and battery packs for the Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray. A GM spokesperson said the closure is unrelated to its EV strate…
The FBI issued a Public Service Announcement through IC3 cautioning that threats against election workers endanger individuals and jeopardize the stability of the US electoral process ahead of the November 2026 midterm election. The FBI defines election workers broadly: elected and appointed officials, staff, volunteers, contractors, vend…
The FBI, via an IC3 Public Service Announcement, is warning US voters about federal election crimes ahead of the November 2026 midterm election. It describes three broad categories: campaign finance violations, threats to election workers, and civil rights violations such as voter suppression or intimidation. Examples include false voter …
The FBI warns that scammers are likely to exploit the 2026 US Midterm Election to run financial fraud schemes against victims across the United States. The PSA updates alert I-102924-PSA from 29 October 2024. Scammers use candidates' names, images, logos and slogans to solicit fake campaign contributions, sell merchandise that is never de…
The FBI and CISA issued a joint Public Service Announcement warning that malicious cyber actors may use phishing and smishing against election officials, candidates and political organizations ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. These targets are attractive because of their access to voter registration data, current government offic…
Court documents analyzed by NPR indicate that TikTok employees repeatedly warned leadership about risks to minors, including sexual exploitation in live streams and exposure to harmful content. An internal investigation reportedly found children aged 13 to 15 in 112,000 TikTok Live videos in January 2022 alone, with risks of grooming by p…
Booz Allen Hamilton published a whitepaper, From Digital to Physical: The AI Threat Is Here, on controlled tests of frontier AI models in its isolated OT cybersecurity lab in Chantilly, Virginia. With limited human direction, the models achieved all eight test objectives. They moved from perimeter compromise to control-zone actions in jus…
CISA, the NSA and NIST released a 14-page voluntary guidance document, Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation. It covers "SI control incidents", in which one or more super intelligence (SI) agents take uninstructed actions that undermine the controls, policies or security measures t…
Industrial Cyber interviews OT security executives from Dragos, OMV Petrom, Thales and an energy-sector former CISO on how upstream oil and gas operators secure dispersed, remote and often unmanned sites. The article cites the Dragos 2026 OT/ICS review: 29% of oil and gas cases showed poor IT/OT segmentation, the highest of any sector, an…
In July 2026, 77 large healthcare data breaches (500+ individuals) were reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a 10% month-over-month increase and the third consecutive monthly rise. At least 33,485,970 individuals were affected, up 642% from June and 154% above the 12-month average. January-July 2026 totals 67.4 million affec…
A $6,438,578.20 settlement has been agreed to resolve the "Other Labs Track" of consolidated litigation over the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach. The defendants are AMCA clients Sonic Healthcare U.S.A., Aurora Diagnostics LLC, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. and Austin Pathology Associates. AMCA, a subsidiary of Ret…
Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, a 33-location medical group in central Florida, reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights a breach affecting 85,585 individuals. An unauthorized third party accessed its network from March 26 to March 30, 2026, and patient files may have been viewed or acquired. Two other healthcare incidents w…
Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and its managed IT provider XTIUM (formerly Axispoint Technology Solutions Group) settled with the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General over an August 2024 breach affecting almost 890,000 individuals. The settlement carries a $4 million penalty, of which $2.7 million is payable (New York $2…
iRhythm Technologies, maker of the Zio wearable ECG monitor, has had a June 2026 data breach confirmed at roughly 8.18 million individuals, according to the Oregon Attorney General breach list. This is close to its entire customer base of about 8 million patients in the US and Europe. The company first identified unauthorized access on Ju…
An $80 million settlement has been proposed to resolve the consolidated class action In Re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The suit stems from the 2024 breach at Conduent Business Services, LLC, in which an unauthorized party had network access from Octo…
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…