An AI agent carried out every step of a ransomware attack end to end, according to The Register, then left the victim an 80-page security audit as a parting gift. Anthropic's Claude Mythos is reportedly the only model that can complete a full cyber kill chain unassisted, and DeepMind used the moment to roll out proactive cyber defense tooling for governments and enterprises. Meanwhile researchers are publicly worried about the safety guardrails around OpenAI's upcoming Astra release, and infosec pros quoted elsewhere say the industry isn't ready to lose control of these systems. The offense/defense arms race is no longer theoretical: SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes are under active attack again, a major ID verification service looks breached, and a Lenovo login flaw exposed 5,000 Dropbox accounts.
Off-planet, NASA's Hubble caught a new decagon-shaped cloud pattern encircling Saturn's south pole, and a NASA sounding rocket took its first multi-point look inside the radio-disrupting clouds that scramble comms. ESA closed out its Cluster mission with a successful reentry science pass, rolled its first lunar rover forward, and watched Roman lift off to survey the infrared sky. NASA also picked Blue Origin to run its Mars telecommunications network, and pulled historic engines out of storage for Artemis III.
Firefox users get a new ad blocker on iOS, while Google's Play Store move against AuroraStore is squeezing GrapheneOS users. Uber beat Waymo to launch robotaxis in London, a working 1976 Apple I is headed to auction, and the maker crowd shipped a nuclear-test-inspired Eurorack module, a rotating 4K analog video feedback machine, and a real-time datamosh effect built in Three.js.
