Fintech
Liquid Network’s $320 Million Exploit Comes With a Self-Awarded Good Guy Badge
Liquid Network’s $320 million exploit now includes a partial Bitcoin return, a white-hat claim, and some urgent questions about what backs the token.
OpenAI
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Declares AGI, and Asks It Not to Touch Anything
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra brings stronger computer use, coding, and critical cyber skills to an AGI launch with one hand hovering over the stop button.
Boston Tech
Neo Raised $100 Million to Put a Bouncer on Your AI Agents
Boston cybersecurity startup Neo raised $100 million to secure AI agents with endpoint controls, software inventory, and real-time policy enforcement.
AI
Cyber AI Models Are Dangerous. The Marketing Is Also Armed.
Are GPT-5.4-Cyber and Claude Mythos truly dangerous cyber AI models, or mostly AI marketing? The uncomfortable answer is yes.
Boston Tech
Akamai Built a Bouncer for AI Shopping Agents, Which Is Extremely Cambridge
Akamai's new agentic security framework aims to verify AI shopping agents at the edge, giving Cambridge a concrete, very Boston AI story.
Cybersecurity
Google’s New Security Report: “Android Safe, iPhone … Less So”
Google’s latest security blog claims Android beats iPhone at stopping scams — but beneath the “independent studies” and AI buzzwords lies a masterclass in self-promotion.
data breach
Qantas Quietly Drops a Cybersecurity Dumpster Fire on a Weekend
Qantas dropped its cyber breach update on a holiday weekend — and SiliconSnark’s got the snarky breakdown you didn’t know you needed.
Satire
5 Things We Pray Hackers Never Learn from the Hertz Data Breach
Data breaches come and go. But your rental history? That shame is forever.