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May 29, 19:12 UTC Resolved - This issue has been resolved. May 29, 18:55 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been deployed for Claude Opus 4.8 and success rates have returned to normal. Users saw elevated errors on requests to the model from 18:16–18:42 UTC. May 29, 18:35 UTC Investigating - We are...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant's implicit trust in Markdown links and images to trigger prompt injections and open the door to phishing attacks. The technique has been codenamed...
May 29, 17:24 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 29, 16:41 UTC Investigating - Reporting and analytics for HTTP requests rollups is delayed. Edge services are still fully operational, just analytics are delayed. We are working to mitigate this problem. More updates to follow...
The notorious ShinyHunters extortion group leaked over 42 million records allegedly stolen from Charter in April. The post Charter Communications Data Breach Could Impact Nearly 5 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
MokN's platform deploys realistic decoy access points to lure attackers into revealing compromised credentials, enabling organizations to respond before abuse occurs. The post MokN Raises $15 Million for Phish-Back Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Status: ResolvedAll impacted services have now fully recovered.Affected components Connectors/Apps (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Search (Operational) Deep Research (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Conversations (Operational)...
The critical-severity issue, assigned a CVSS score of 9.4, is an argument injection flaw that can be exploited by authenticated attackers via pull requests with malicious branch names. The post Gogs Zero-Day Exposes Servers to Remote Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium A new method for extracting lithium could cut costs and emissions from one of the...
A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed GREYVIBE has been attributed to ongoing and persistent attacks targeting Ukraine and Ukraine-related entities since at least August 2025. GREYVIBE, per WithSecure, is assessed to be a Russian-speaking group operating broadly in the Russian time zone,...
The alert was raised on May 5. Four health-care workers in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo had died from an unknown illness within four days. Rapid response teams were sent to investigate, and tests at a research center in Kinshasa revealed the culprit: the Bundibugyo...
Attorney General Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit against Chrome Holding Co., which 23andMe rebranded under after filing for bankruptcy last March. The post California Sues 23andMe, Alleging It Failed to Protect User Data in 2023 Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Zero Zero Robotics has unveiled the Hover AQUA, the world's first fully waterproof flying camera designed for water sports, featuring IP67 dust and water resistance, positive buoyancy for direct water takeoff and landing, and 4K/100fps video recording at under 250 grams.
BYD has unveiled its self-developed 4nm automotive-grade autonomous driving chip, the Xuanji A3, along with upgraded intelligent driving systems and a city navigation assistance accident liability policy, marking a major step in automaker chip independence.
X-Square Robot has released WALL-WM, the world's first event-level prediction embodied AI world model that shifts from frame-by-frame prediction to semantic event understanding, enabling robots to grasp task objectives rather than memorizing pixel sequences.
Shadow AI used to mean employees pasting things they shouldn't into ChatGPT. It now means something bigger: employees building full applications with AI, wiring them into production systems, and publishing them on the open internet. Without Security or IT in the loop. The artifact moved from a...
The browser update resolves critical-severity security defects that could potentially lead to remote code execution. The post Chrome 148 Update Patches 151 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to act with courage and solidarity as we...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious NuGet package that masquerades as a C# software development kit for Sicoob, one of Brazil's largest cooperative financial systems, to siphon client IDs and PFX certificates. According to Socket, versions 2.0.0 through 2.0.4 of "Sicoob.Sdk"...
May 29, 08:45 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 29, 08:39 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. May 29, 08:30 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
Xynova, the Chinese full-stack dexterous manipulation technology company, has completed a Series A funding round worth hundreds of millions of RMB. The round wa...
MediaTek has released the Dimensity 8550, a 4nm N4P mobile platform featuring an all-big-core Cortex-A725 CPU architecture, an 880 NPU unit with native Google Gemini Nano V3 support, and comprehensive connectivity features targeting the mid-to-premium smartphone segment.
May 29, 07:45 UTC Identified - Current status: We've identified an issue with a third-party cloud platform, and we're coordinating with the provider to develop and implement a fix to restore service. We'll provide another update within 60 minutes.Customer experience: Customers hosted in the...
May 29, 07:32 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 29, 07:32 UTC Monitoring - Cloudflare is investigating issues with the Cloudflare Notifications product. Some alerts might be temporarily delayed.Impact is restricted to the notification functionality and it does not affect any...
The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Velvet Chollima) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting South Korean military and corporate entities through March and April 2026. "Kimsuky employed a range of tailored social engineering tactics, such as...
arXiv:2605.28849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient temporal-difference methods provide stable off-policy prediction with linear function approximation, but their practical performance is strongly affected by the geometry induced by the auxiliary-variable metric. Existing Mirror-Prox TD...
arXiv:2605.28855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal-difference learning with function approximation can be unstable under off-policy sampling. TDC stabilizes off-policy TD through an auxiliary covariance correction, and TDRC further regularizes this correction in a single-timescale recursion....
arXiv:2605.28864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Cognitive Categorical Transformer (CCT) is a 306M-parameter architecture that augments a pretrained GPT-2 Small backbone with cognitively grounded components derived from category theory and several inspirations from cognitive science. Under a...
arXiv:2605.28883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tropical forests worldwide are under intense deforestation pressure driven by economic and political interests, and scientific evidence suggests this deforestation contributes to climate change. This paper proposes a novel logging method for tropical...
arXiv:2605.28897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-generated reviews for scientific papers are gaining considerable traction and are even being officially piloted by major conferences. We have to assume that not only reviewers are using LLM-assistance, but also that authors use LLMs to revise...
arXiv:2605.28839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge editing methods such as ROME and MEMIT update factual associations in transformer models by modifying MLP weights. While evaluated mainly by output behavior, their internal mechanism remains underexplored. We investigate whether edits rely...
arXiv:2605.28850v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study behavioral alignment and representation dynamics of large language model (LLM) agents in financial decision environments. Using TradeArena, an auditable trading-agent testbed with risk reports, execution simulation, memory, and replayable...
arXiv:2605.28860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) frequently induces catastrophic forgetting of prior capabilities. Recent work has shown that reinforcement learning (RL) retains prior capabilities more effectively than supervised fine-tuning (SFT),...
arXiv:2605.28862v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Drug discovery is a lengthy and resource-intensive process composed of multiple stages. Among these stages, lead optimization plays a critical role in transforming early hit compounds into viable drug candidates. This stage requires improving...
arXiv:2605.28863v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imperfect-information multiplayer games test whether agents can act under hidden information, sparse rewards, and non-stationary opponents. We study these challenges in Big 2, a four-player imperfect-information card game. We develop a self-play RL...
arXiv:2605.27393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate fluent dialogue, but prior works lack situational grounding, dynamic strategy control, and evaluation aligned with clinical standards in motivational interviewing (MI). We introduce StoryMI, a multi-LLM agent...
arXiv:2605.27483v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite theoretical promise, debate as a scalable oversight protocol has produced mixed empirical results: gains in some settings, and null effects in others, especially when the judge does not have information hidden from it. We study proposer-critic...
arXiv:2605.27545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Jailbreak attacks on multimodal AI systems remain underexplored, even though unsafe image generation can have more severe consequences than unsafe text and current defenses are relatively immature. We introduce PAST2HARM, a simple yet effective...
arXiv:2605.27546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crisis Responders (CRs) rapidly assess thousands of youth SMS conversations each year to identify mental health concerns and guide support. Yet youth distress is increasingly expressed through evolving and context-specific language that often does not...
arXiv:2605.27564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models are becoming the default interface to factual knowledge, yet they often verify outputs more reliably than they generate them. This generation-verification gap (GV-gap) underlies many recent advances in self-improvement and reasoning,...
Status: MonitoringWe have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.Affected components Conversations (Degraded performance)
Status: MonitoringWe have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.Affected components Login (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance)
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Status: InvestigatingSome users may be unable to complete Business plan subscription checkouts on web and mobile web. We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
May 28, 20:41 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. May 28, 20:06 UTC Update - Open AI models are currently unavailable. We are shifting...
May 28, 19:23 UTC Resolved - The issue affecting Claude services has been resolved. Impact occurred from 18:27 UTC to 19:05 UTC. May 28, 19:17 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been deployed for the issue affecting Claude services and we are monitoring for recovery. May 28, 19:04 UTC Identified - We are...
May 28, 19:07 UTC Resolved - On May 28, 2026, between 19:07 UTC and 19:16 UTC, multiple GitHub services experienced elevated error rates. This was due to a change that was partially deployed to an authentication service, causing errors for dependent services including the web experience, REST API,...
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Researchers say they’ve found a new way to extract lithium, a crucial metal used in the lithium-ion batteries that power electric vehicles and energy storage arrays. This new technique could be more environmentally friendly and cheaper than existing ones.  The research was published today in...
May 28, 14:42 UTC Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of and investigating an issue impacting a subset of Pages uploads. Some customers may experience their uploads returning a 502 error.We are working to analyse and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.
May 28, 12:18 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 28, 12:13 UTC Monitoring - Between May 14th and May 28th, 2026, an issue with network routing impacted a subset of Cloudflare Tunnel connections routing through our Anchorage, AK (ANC) point of presence. This issue has been fully...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar and battery company Solv Energy went public in February, hitting a $6 billion valuation....
May 28, 09:17 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 28, 08:38 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
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Status: ResolvedResolved - Some users were unable to complete subscriptions on web and mobile. Affected users may have experienced the Subscribe button becoming unresponsive or encountered the error message submit_error_source:email during checkout.Affected components Conversations (Operational)...
May 28, 01:32 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. May 28, 01:27 UTC Monitoring - The degradation affecting Webhooks has been mitigated. We...
May 28, 01:00 UTC Resolved - Between 01:17 UTC - 01:28 UTC, customers reaching Dallas Texas region would have experienced an elevated number of 5xx errors. This incident is now resolved
Parameter-efficient finetuning (PEFT) has become the standard approach for adapting large language models, yet evaluations largely emphasize downstream accuracy while overlooking the retention of pretrained capabilities. We argue that PEFT should be assessed through the stability-plasticity...
Search has been proposed as an effective method for self-improving language models and agentic systems, both for post-training sample generation and for inference. However, widely used methods such as best-of-N sampling and tree search face two fundamental limitations: they are guided by sparse...
Free-text explanations extend human label variation (HLV) beyond label disagreement by revealing the reasoning and preferences behind annotators' decisions. We study whether large language models (LLMs) can learn and reproduce such annotator-specific label-explanation behavior. Using two...
On-policy self-distillation (SD) improves LLM reasoning by using teacher-side privileged information (PI) to turn sparse verifier outcomes into dense token-level supervision. Existing methods usually assume trusted PI, such as reference answers or successful traces. We ask whether PI can instead...
Datasets vs. inductive bias, world models, and programmable biology
Critical decision-making in socially consequential spaces is increasingly involving AI systems at varying capacities. Yet, despite the ubiquity of autonomous systems, most approaches to handling autonomous moral decision-making resort to scalar or binary judgments. These methods are insufficient...
May 27, 13:16 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. May 27, 12:54 UTC Update - We're continuing to investigate degraded performance of Git...
New guidance explains how to design Zero Trust Network Access architectures aligned with zero trust principles and not built on old trust assumptions.
May 27, 09:41 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 27, 09:11 UTC Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. May 27, 08:04 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.
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May 26, 16:35 UTC Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as it is available. May 26, 16:24 UTC Monitoring - The degradation affecting Copilot has been mitigated. We...
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