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Thirty years in the field, applied to this week's breach, patch, or regulation. What it means for the people who sign the risk acceptance form.
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The firm that holds your secrets just became the target
Silent Ransom Group claimed $207M from 27 law firms without encrypting a file. What the leaked chats reveal about advisor risk and what boards should ask this week.
Read more →$24,000 and two weeks
A developer spent $400K and five months trying to port the TypeScript compiler to Rust with other AI models. Then Claude did it from scratch in two weeks for $24K. What this means for builders.
Read more →The vendor who "never pays ransoms" allegedly paid them all
Federal prosecutors allege MonsterCloud secretly paid ransoms while billing clients millions for proprietary recovery. What boards should ask about IR vendors before an incident.
Read more →Your AI just started showing you ads
OpenAI announced visual ads inside ChatGPT’s image generator. When your creative partner becomes an ad platform, the relationship changes. Here’s what it means for builders.
Read more →The back door was never locked: what South Korea's bank breaches say about AI-speed attacks
South Korean regulators suspect AI-assisted attacks hit multiple banks through employee-facing side doors. Compliance passed. Attackers still found the weak points.
Read more →The cost of intelligence keeps falling
Sonnet 5.5 is 30% faster and 30% cheaper while outperforming its predecessor at coding. Opus 5.5 costs 40% less than Opus 5. What the relentless drop in AI costs means for creators and builders.
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