Cronos Kicks Off $42K Global Hackathon Focused on AI-Powered On-Chain Payments
Cronos launches x402 PayTech Hackathon with $42K prize pool to drive AI-powered on-chain payments using agent tech and Crypto.com tools.
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OpenAI API User Data Exposed in Mixpanel Breach, ChatGPT Unaffected
OpenAI confirmed a third-party data breach via Mixpanel, exposing limited API user metadata like names, emails and browser…
OpenAI User Data Exposed in Mixpanel Hack
Multiple Mixpanel customers were impacted by a recent cyberattack targeting the product analytics company.
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Elena Lazar: Failures are Inevitable – Reliability is a Choice
Reliability engineer on why resilience must be designed, not patched, and how decades of global experience taught her to turn outages into insights.
AI Meeting Assistants Are Rising – But Is Your Data Safe? A Deep Look at TicNote AI
AI meeting assistants have become essential tools for professionals who want fast, accurate, and automated transcription. Yet behind…
New “HashJack” attack can hijack AI browsers and assistants
Security researchers at Cato Networks have uncovered a new indirect prompt injection technique that can force popular AI browsers and assistants to deliver phishing links or disinformation (e.g., incorrect medicine dosage guidance or investment advice)…
India Entering Golden Era of Defence Innovation Says Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh declared that India is entering a "golden era of defence innovation" during his address at the Swavlamban 2025 event, held at the Manekshaw Centre.He emphasised the need for India to move beyond a reactive approach to adopt a proactive outlook to become future-ready amid rapid geopolitical changes.Singh urged the private sector to adopt a "profit-plus" mindset,
Can We Trust AI with Our Cybersecurity? The Growing Importance of AI Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps us in doing small and big things that are important in our daily lives.…
AI Agent Security Firm Vijil Raises $17 Million
Focusing on improving the resilience of AI agents, the startup will use the funding to accelerate deployments of its platform.
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Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide
Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another narrative. Yes, there are risks to democracy from AI, but there are also opportunities.
We have just published the book Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform Politics, Government, and Citizenship. In it, we take a clear-eyed view of how AI is undermining confidence in our information ecosystem, how the use of biased AI can harm constituents of democracies and how elected officials with authoritarian tendencies can use it to consolidate power. But we also give positive examples of how AI is transforming democratic governance and politics for the better…