Russia’s elite Sandworm hacking group has adopted Clickfix, a social-engineering technique that tricks users into pasting malicious scripts, to target Ukrainian organizations.

Xbox’s technology chief acknowledged an “unacceptable” outage Monday that prevented some players from accessing disc-based games, calling the licensing failure a system design flaw requiring correction.

Snapchat joins YouTube, LinkedIn, and Substack in combating AI-generated content by deprioritizing wholly AI-created videos in recommendations while allowing AI-enhanced material.

AI startup Pippa launches with a business model designed to compensate artists whose work trains its text-to-video models, though the payments remain modest and underlying technology still relies on internet-scraped content.

Global stock markets experienced significant volatility following China’s advances in chipmaking technology and a major Chinese memory chip company’s market debut, raising questions about the future of AI industry dominance.

Australia’s first nationwide test of the AusAlert emergency warning system deployed in July reached most devices but some users failed to receive notifications or experienced muted alerts despite advance public warnings.

A Labour MP is suing Elon Musk’s xAI over fake sexualized images created by Grok. Court filings reveal the chatbot was instructed to operate with no restrictions on adult sexual content.

A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm undergoing US standardization evaluation was withdrawn after an AI security model discovered a critical flaw that rendered it noncompetitive with other post-quantum candidates.

President Trump said his administration is considering implementing controls over AI tools following recent cybersecurity incidents involving OpenAI, while balancing competitiveness concerns with China.

Microsoft has announced significant Xbox price increases across Europe and the UK, with some models rising by more than 40 percent following earlier US price adjustments announced in June.

Australia’s government disabled thousands of functioning test routers after a broadband measurement program ended, though the devices could be repurposed or reflashed for continued use.

Google awarded $250,000 for a critical Linux vulnerability in KVM that allows guest virtual machines to escape and gain root access to host machines, alongside a separate privilege escalation flaw.