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The Frontier Model Forum has released a new framework for rating AI jailbreaks, scoring them on how much capability they unlock, how broadly they could spread, and how simple they are to execute. It's a methodical attempt to move past the headlines and give researchers and developers a shared language for measuring real-world risk.
On the home security front, Ring is making another run at its long-promised indoor surveillance drone. The Ring Drone Cam is set to ship January twenty-seventh, two thousand twenty seven, priced at two hundred forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. The device uses cloud-based AI to navigate autonomously, and it's lighter than many smartphones — though given the product's six-year journey from announcement to doorstep, some customers may want to see it in hand before celebrating.
Meanwhile, Google has patched its eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of two thousand twenty six, matching the entire total from last year with nearly two months still remaining on the calendar. The latest flaw is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome's XML component, and attackers were already exploiting it before the fix arrived — a reminder that browser security remains a relentless, ongoing game of catch-up.
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