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Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel…

Accenture Acquires Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX
Accenture Plc is buying Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX, its largest acquisition to date in the sector that will boost operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Russian agent caught 'red-handed' planting explosives in Rivne apartment building, Ukraine's SBU says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/russian-agent-caught-redhanded-planting.html

@… Hi there,
(I tried the email route but got an automated response, so I’m trying this instead.) :)
I just got notified that my friend Iman’s account (@emanahmed@mastodon.social) has been suspended with cause due to private messages being sent from her account to ask for donations. (One of the people who was upset about this contacted me directly to let …

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

More than a dozen Border Patrol agents turned up in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday
at a rally and news conference that
Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding on congressional redistricting.
The governor’s event had nothing to do with immigration,
and local elected officials expressed outrage
that the federal agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force outside a museum
where Mr. Newsom and other leaders were speaking.
As the governor was preparin…

Border Patrol Agents Show Up in Force at Newsom Rally
The armed and masked agents assembled outside a museum where the governor was speaking in what Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles called “a provocative act.”

MCP-Orchestrated Multi-Agent System for Automated Disinformation Detection
Alexandru-Andrei Avram, Adrian Groza, Alexandru Lecu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10143 https://

MCP-Orchestrated Multi-Agent System for Automated Disinformation Detection
The large spread of disinformation across digital platforms creates significant challenges to information integrity. This paper presents a multi-agent system that uses relation extraction to detect disinformation in news articles, focusing on titles and short text snippets. The proposed Agentic AI system combines four agents: (i) a machine learning agent (logistic regression), (ii) a Wikipedia knowledge check agent (which relies on named entity recognition), (iii) a coherence detection agent (u…

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal - Neowin https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
A LibreOffice developer has shared his experience of having his Microsoft account banned, and how the company has been uncooperative in helping him recover it.

MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools
Zikang Guo, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu, Wentao Hong, Xiaorui Wang, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09734

MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as a pivotal open standard, designed to enhance agent-tool integration and interoperability, and is positioned to unlock a new era of powerful, interconnected, and genuinely utilitarian agentic AI. However, despite MCP's growing adoption, existing benchmarks often fail to capture real-world agent performance within this new paradigm, leading to a distorted perception of their true operational value and an inability to reliably differentiate p…

Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit ...

Multi-Agent Trust Region Policy Optimisation: A Joint Constraint Approach
Chak Lam Shek, Guangyao Shi, Pratap Tokekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10340 https://

Multi-Agent Trust Region Policy Optimisation: A Joint Constraint Approach
Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) requires coordinated and stable policy updates among interacting agents. Heterogeneous-Agent Trust Region Policy Optimization (HATRPO) enforces per-agent trust region constraints using Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to stabilize training. However, assigning each agent the same KL threshold can lead to slow and locally optimal updates, especially in heterogeneous settings. To address this limitation, we propose two approaches for allocating the KL dive…