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1. In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool

   Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again?

2. Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

   Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML—no authentication needed.

3. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas

   Report: Microsoft declared "the era of AI agents" in May, but enterprise customers aren't buying.

4. Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious

   Researchers say there's more to the network, which has operated for 14 years.

5. OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

   Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned.

6. Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

   New research offers clues about why some prompt injection attacks may succeed.

7. HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use

   Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.

8. Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble

   Several companies are selling crypto stockpiles in effort to fund share buybacks, shore up stock prices.

9. UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in $130M growth push

   Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware

10. Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.

    Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."