New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart contract vulnerabilities on their own

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm have built EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can find, fix, and exploit security vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.The article New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart c…

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Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has confirmed a bug allowed Copilot AI to access and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data protection policies.The post Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks appeared first on WinBuzzer.

Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 6:20 am / permalink 19406 / 10 stories in 15 days

Vilnius’ Copla bags €6M to swap Excel chaos for automatic DORA compliance

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Vilnius-based Copla has secured €6 million in Series A funding as European financial institutions brace for a sweeping…

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Ring’s AI-powered Search Party won’t stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge - A leaked internal email obtained by 404 Media shows that Ring has bigger plans for its AI-powered neighborhood search capability than just looking for lost dogs. The outlet reports the email, sent last October by founder Jamie Siminoff to all Ring employe…

Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19381 / 12 stories in 16 days

Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities

Dan Robinson / theregister - State disputes the company's claim that its routers are made in Vietnam TP-Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with "Made in Vietnam" claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and fo…

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Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails

msmash / slashdot - Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: Acc…

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Dutch defense chief claims F-35 could be "jailbroken like an iPhone" to bypass US approval

techspot - In an interview with NR Nieuwsradio, Tuinman was asked if the F-35's software could be altered by European forces without the United States' consent should they lose the US as an ally – a prospect that has been repeatedly raised as tensions between the co…

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OpenAI hires 'genius' OpenClaw creator, but popular AI assistant will remain open source — Sam Altman says creator will work on 'smart agents' in new role

tomshardware - OpenAI has hired the creator of popular agentic AI tool OpenClaw, but has decided to keep the project open source. Despite its old Claude-inspired name, Anthropic threatened Steinberger with legal action ahead of multiple name changes.

Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 19313 / 9 stories in 17 days

Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface

Carly Page / theregister - High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox Google has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser's first reported zero-day of 2026.…

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Microsoft Refreshes Secure Boot Certificates via Windows Update

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has announced it will deliver new Secure Boot certificates via Windows Update starting March 2026 before 2011 certificates expire in June.The post Microsoft Refreshes Secure Boot Certificates via Windows Update appeared first on WinBuzzer.

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Google reports that state hackers from China, Russia and Iran are using Gemini in 'all stages' of attacks — phishing lures, coding and vulnerability testing get AI underpinnings from hostile actors

tomshardware - Hackers from Russian, China, India, North Korea, and elsewhere are using Google's Gemini AI to augment their attacks, Google says. From generating phishing lures, to translating text, coding, and vulnerability testing, Gemini is a core component of their …

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Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach

Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - The Dutch phone giant Odido is the latest phone and internet company to be hacked in recent months, as governments and financially motivated hackers continue to steal highly confidential information about phone customers.

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iOS 26.3 Arrives with Android Switching, Cellular Privacy, and More

Jesse Hollington / idropnews - Apple releases iOS 26.3 with a new Transfer to Android tool, offline lyrics for Apple Music, and a breakthrough "Limit Precise Location" privacy setting.Read More...

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Update Windows 11 Now: Major Notepad Flaw Fixed

Nehal Malik / iphoneincanada - If you’re running Windows 11, it’s time to hit that update button. Microsoft has patched a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Windows 11 Notepad app that could allow attackers to silently execute malicious files through special…

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Israel charges two over Polymarket bets on classified military operations

ft - Civilian and reservist charged with security offences, bribery and obstructing justice after ‘red line’ crossed with online gambling

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Coinbase Launches Wallet for AI Agents With Built-In Guardrails

Jason Nelson / decrypt - The company says its sandboxed, self-custodial design keeps private keys isolated as the autonomous bot boom continues.

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Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge - FBI Director Kash Patel said yesterday that investigators recovered footage from Savannah Guthrie's mother's doorbell camera using "residual data located in backend systems." This claim has many home security camera users asking an uncomfortable question:…

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Overmind Raises £2M Funding To Advance Agentic AI Development

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Overmind, a startup building a supervision layer for AI agents, has raised £2 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by cybersecurity-focused investor Osney Capital, with participation from 14Peaks, Portfolio Ventures, Antler, and…

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Microsoft is Refreshing Secure Boot Certificates on Millions of Windows PCs

techpowerup - On your Windows PC, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware has a Secure Boot Certificate that mandates only verified software starts the boot-up sequence. Microsoft is preparing to refresh these certificates, and the company announced t…

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