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Google will penalise sites that hijack your browser's back button
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (280+ words) In short: Google is classifying "back button hijacking" as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with penalties ranging from manual spam actions to algorithmic ranking…...
Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft paid AI agent bug bounties, then kept quiet about the flaws
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (415+ words) Security researchers have demonstrated that AI agents from Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft can be hijacked through prompt injection attacks to steal API keys, Git Hub tokens, and other secrets, and all three companies quietly paid bug bounties without publishing public…...
Open AI releases GPT-5. 4-Cyber for vetted security teams, scaling Trusted Access programme
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (315+ words) Open AI is opening up its most capable cybersecurity model to thousands of vetted defenders, releasing GPT-5. 4-Cyber and expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber programme in what amounts to a direct response to Anthropic's Project Glasswing announcement last week....
Adobe launches Firefly AI Assistant to orchestrate tasks across Creative Cloud
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (640+ words) Adobe launched the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and Frame. io using natural language. Previously codenamed Project Moonlight, it enters public beta in coming weeks, integrates with third-party models including…...
30+ Word Press plugins bought on Flippa and backdoored in supply chain attack
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (798+ words) The Next Web An attacker bought 30+ Word Press plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve cloaked SEO spam exclusively to Googlebot. Word Press....
Auctor emerges from stealth with $20 M led by Sequoia
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (531+ words) Half of enterprise software projects miss their deadlines. One in six exceeds budgets by more than 200%. The New York startup says the problem is not the software itself but the fragmented, knowledge-scattered process of implementing it, and it has Sequoia,…...
Byte Dance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2. 0 ahead of global rollout
2+ week, 2+ day ago (585+ words) Byte Dance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2. 0 as it begins cautious global rollout'The Next Web Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It…...
Miro now puts AI agents on your team's whiteboard
1+ week, 1+ day ago (327+ words) This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Most AI tools operate in isolation. You prompt them individually, receive outputs individually, and then spend…...
Microsoft's own To S calls Copilot 'entertainment only' amid adoption slump
1+ week, 4+ day ago (810+ words) In short: Microsoft has spent billions building Copilot into every corner of its product lineup, pitching it as an indispensable AI co-worker. Its own Terms of Use tell a different story. A clause quietly buried in the document labels Copilot…...
Open AI releases open-source teen safety tools for AI developers
3+ week, 2+ day ago (637+ words) Open AI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with Chat GPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its. .. Open AI has…...