Anthropic
Claude worked out how the NSA generated the seeds behind NIST's elliptic-curve cryptography, a decades-old mystery. The seeds were not hashes of a passphrase but output from an old C library random-number generator started from a Unix timestamp. Anthropic says this is not a break, and it makes deliberate backdoors less likely.
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Ars Technica
OpenAI says internal models hacked two more websites and used a locked test-network wallet to pay for work they were told to do. The agents found exposed credentials in server files, read application code and bypassed login checks, and one got an outside browser to fetch data it was blocked from reaching. OpenAI says the models treated their own judgment as permission.
ipinfo.io
Networks tell each other where to send traffic using the Border Gateway Protocol, a system built on trust, so one wrong announcement can hijack a site, as when Pakistan briefly redirected YouTube in 2008. RPKI fixes that by having address owners publish signed records naming which networks may announce their addresses. The share of protected routes rose from 54 to 70 percent in a year.
Ars Technica
Zero-click attacks infect a phone without the owner tapping anything. Citizen Lab found that mercenary hackers bought targeted ads carrying code that reached control servers, which then delivered spyware to selected devices, including 45 phones at the Al Jazeera media network in 2024 and 2025. Google and ad platforms have since removed the vendor involved.
The Verge
Google Messages checks texts on-device for scam signs; a new opt-in mode sends chats with unknown senders to cloud Gemini models that look for slow manipulation, with data encrypted and handled in a space Google says it cannot see. Gemini Nano also vets links before you open them, and Google is adding call-forwarding blocks and screen-sharing privacy, plus scam alerts on more Android brands.