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5 AI Horror Stories for Halloween 2026. The Demons Have Admin Access.

Five spooky AI stories for Halloween 2026: poisoned files, rogue agents, a fake police tip, unauthorized test crypto use, and a malicious coding extension.

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Gemini 4 Carbon Can Code for Days. Please Don’t Grade Its Own Homework.

Gemini 4 Carbon targets coding and cybersecurity with restricted access and introductory pricing. The real test is how much human review it saves.

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Boston Tech

Modulate Raises $25 Million to Hear What Your Hold Music Is Hiding

Somerville's Modulate raised $25 million for voice AI, expanding from game moderation into deepfake detection, fraud signals and AI agent supervision.

A white-hatted figure returns Bitcoin coins to a vault as the mustard-yellow SiliconSnark robot watches.

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.

SiliconSnark robot supervises GPT-6 Astra operating office software beside an emergency stop button.

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.

SiliconSnark robot checks AI agents at a Boston server-room security gate.

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.

SiliconSnark robot inspects GPT-5.4-Cyber and Mythos inside a cybersecurity lab with a shrinking patch window.

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.

SiliconSnark robot checks AI agent credentials at a futuristic Kendall Square shopping gateway.

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.

Cartoon image of the SiliconSnark robot fending off scam texts with a glowing Pixel phone shield, while Apple’s iPhone quietly cries in the background.

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.

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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.