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Capture The Real Flag

In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Anthropic's admission that Claude models reached real systems during sandboxed safety tests. He also covers OpenAI's Astra model cracking ten decade-old math problems, DeepMind open-sourcing its WeatherNext cyclone forecaster, and Europe's brutal fire season. Finally, he wraps with the MacBook Neo sweeping K-12 schools, WhatsApp calling in the browser, and the troubled rescue of NASA's Swift observatory.

Steam Limits Accounts in Effort to Fight Spam

Steam has come up with a unique way to fight against spam. Steam users need to spend at least $5.00 USD in order to have full access to all of Steam's features. The purpose is to limit what spammers and “malicious users” can do. The reasoning behind this decision is explained by Steam as: We've chosen to limit access to

YouTube Acknowledges Spammy Comments

Have you noticed an increase in the amount of spammy comments on your YouTube page in the past few weeks? You aren't alone. YouTube has acknowledged on its Creator Blog that they have received a lot of feedback from creators about the increase in comment spam. The increase in spammy comments began after YouTube decided to make new YouTube comments

Twitter banning Bit.ly, other URL Shortners on Direct Messages (DM)

Today I was trying to send a direct message to a friend. Included was a bit.ly link to a page I needed him to see. For some reason, Twitter kept saying there was an error and cannot send the DM. After checking his page to make sure he was still following me and sending a couple test DMs successfully, I

Text Spam DrivingYou Crazy?

Being a new owner of a smart phone, I had never heard of text spam.  After all, my phone number is on the federal and my state's no-call lists, so why would I ever think I'd get spam in the form of SMS/text messages? Well, I do get them, at least one a day.  After a couple weeks of this,

Time for Yahoo to Close Groups?

Yahoo! Groups needs to implement some ideas so we don't continue to receive spam in our inboxes from mal-groups.

Malware Myths

GData has found that many people's preconceptions about malware are wrong and are putting them at risk of malware infection. The vectors for viruses and trojans have significantly changed in the past couple of years and infections now mainly come from websites rather than emails and USB sticks. The growth of malware in the past five years has been phenomenal