August 18, 2026
OpenAI’s overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security
Expanded multistage chain of thought monitoring makes frontier model work more expensive
Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments
Gaps in expiry checks could let dead plastic make purchases again
Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants
McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, Kyndryl, and others named as researchers point to compromised credentials
Code fixers have fired up the AI warp drive. Strange new worlds await
With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that
CISA gives feds 3 days to fix actively exploited Ray RCE bug
Phishing, malvertising attacks could target devs to gain access to private corporate networks
Apple plugs image-processing hole ripe for spyware abuse
Patch batch spans current kit, older iGadgets, Macs, and Vision Pro
Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
How to social engineer an AI's reasoning engine