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The newly discovered vulnerabilities illustrate AI’s growing power — as well as the continuing weaknesses in critical infrastructure.

A widespread Microsoft server outage on Thursday left millions of users worldwide unable to access their accounts, including workers in Massachusetts.

A newly uncovered and widespread business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeted Microsoft 365 environments in an operation which made hundreds of thousands of attempts to access corporate networks around the world.

Despite the push to incorporate artificial intelligence into every aspect of social media and online life, the risks far outweigh AI’s narrow use case.

People around the world are largely optimistic about artificial intelligence, according to a new Gallup poll. At the same time, a majority of respondents reported they’ve never actually used the new technology.

Researchers said they used Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex to identify a damaging flaw embedded in a popular software decoding tool that could leave major internet platforms, enterprise services, and web frameworks vulnerable to data theft and remote access.

More than 70% of water systems inspected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since September 2023 violate basic cybersecurity assessment requirements, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report released on August 27. The report examined the implications of July 2026 cyberattacks on water utilities in at least seven states, where attackers remotely accessed internet-facing…

We are releasing a revised version of “Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence.”  Using payroll data from ADP, we document six facts about how employment has evolved since the release of ChatGPT, with particular attention to differences by age and AI exposure.