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Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-tools-cybercrime-wormgpt-kawaiigpt/

Cybersecurity Act: Netzbetreiber kritisieren Huawei-Bann scharf
Branchenverbände sparen nicht mit Kritik an dem Entwurf des EU Cybersecurity Acts. Sie warnen vor Konsequenzen für die Digitalisierung und hohen Kosten.

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush,
This week's selection covers
--Scam compound captive risks it all to expose its inner workings,
--AI is a core source of geopolitical power and security,
--Regulators should jettison checkbox cyber compliance with innovations,
--AI-led cybersecurity superintelligence i…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 1/24/26
Scam compound captive risks it all to expose its inner workings, AI is a core source of geopolitical power and security, Regulators should jettison checkbox cyber compliance with innovations, AI-led cybersecurity superintelligence is coming, AI's dual-use capabilities are transforming cybersecurity

»Netzpolitik — Cybersicherheitschef der USA lädt vertrauliche Dokumente bei ChatGPT hoch:
Offenbar hatte sich ausgerechnet der Boss eine Ausnahmegenehmigung für die Nutzung des Tools geholt und agierte damit umgehend fahrlässig«
Ich habe diesbezüglich kein Kommentar ausser dass dies uns das Nutzen der KI wirklich in Frage stellen soll.
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Cybersicherheitschef der USA lädt vertrauliche Dokumente bei ChatGPT hoch
Offenbar hatte sich ausgerechnet der Boss eine Ausnahmegenehmigung für die Nutzung des Tools geholt und agierte damit umgehend fahrlässig

The handweaving.net archive seems great and a huge effort, but getting together out of copyright patterns, digitising them and then charging people $6.50 a month to access them under a restrictive license seems a bit wrong?
Surely if you digitise out of copyright patterns you don't have copyright over your derivative work?

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 410236 nodes and 3356824 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

Nexperia: China verschärft Anschuldigungen gegen niederländischen Chiphersteller
Der Streit zwischen der Halbleiterfirma Nexperia und ihrer chinesischen Muttergesellschaft Wingtech eskaliert. Neuester Vorwurf: China werde völlig umgangen.

Does tossing a laptop in the river destroy evidence?
The Coupang hacker allegedly disposed of the laptop used in the breach by throwing it into a river.
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/hacker-…

Hacker Disposes of Coupang Data Breach Laptop in River, initiating $1.2 Billion as compensation
AI is evolving at a rapid pace, and the uptake of Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionising the way humans interact and leverage this technology. GenAI is

Chiphersteller Nexperia: Offener Brief an China ohne Antwort
Der Chiphersteller Nexperia fordert in einem offenen Brief die chinesische Seite auf, die normale Produktion wiederherzustellen. Bislang ohne Antwort.

A coalition of music publishers, including UMG, filed a second lawsuit against Anthropic, seeking $3B over allegations of copyright infringement of 20k songs (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.

UMG sues Anthropic for $3bn over ‘brazen’ copyright infringement of 20,000+ songs
Music publishers file second copyright infringement lawsuit against AI company Anthropic…