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Article A managed endpoint no longer bounds insider exposure.
Apple Intelligence on Mac acts within existing user access with no confirmed runtime monitoring, creating an insider exposure the board must constrain now.
The benchmark score is the number to trust least
How to weigh Claude Opus 5.5's intelligence, latency, and token cost, and where its real AI safety and cybersecurity risks concentrate.
the phone rings in a voice you trust
Unreal Agent clones trusted voices for social engineering, and any identity check that ends at voice recognition is already defeated.
An unsolved cipher was never a secure one
GPT-6 Astra solved an Enigma message unsolved since 2005. The failure was effort-based security, not the cipher, and that pattern reaches legacy encryption.
Every Prompt Is A Retrieval Request
Meta's Muse returned 6.8GB when asked for its filesystem. The response channel serviced a request for internal data with no enforcement at the boundary.
Grok 4.7 collapses recon into a scripted session
Grok 4.7's real-time retrieval and agentic tool-use compress red team reconnaissance and phishing, degrading content-based detection while behavior-based rules hold.
Heretic strips refusals from open-weight models
Heretic automates stripping refusals from open-weight LLMs. Why model-level guardrails were never a security control, and what defenders should do instead.
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