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A new benchmark from the UK's AI Security Institute is raising serious questions about the future of cybersecurity work. Researchers found that frontier models like Claude Sonnet are now capable of completing tasks that would typically take a human expert hours — in a fraction of the time. That's not just an efficiency story. It's a question about who, or what, we trust to defend our networks.
Shifting to a story about trust of a different kind — Signal is warning it will exit Canada entirely if the country's lawful access bill becomes law. The encrypted messaging app has drawn a hard line before, and it's drawing one again, arguing that building in government access means breaking the security it promises its users. Ottawa is watching. So are privacy advocates around the world.
And on a story that hits uncomfortably close to home — roughly one million baby monitors and security cameras made by Meari Technology were found to be easily accessible to outside hackers. The devices lacked basic protections, meaning strangers could potentially watch live feeds from inside people's homes. It's a reminder that the cheapest connected device in your house may be the most expensive risk you're taking.
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