2026-07-30
A hidden line in a Word doc can rewrite your numbers, and infect the next file too
A hidden line of text in a Word document can quietly halve the numbers in your financial report. Then it can smuggle a copy of itself into the clean file you send on. And 144 days after a researcher warned Microsoft, it still works. Håkon Måløy, a Norwegian data scientist, disclosed the technique on 28 […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.
ByteDance is quietly winning a race in China that most people are watching in America. The company behind TikTok now makes about $4bn a year from artificial intelligence. That is the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, the South China Morning Post reported. To press that lead, ByteDance is tearing up part of […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.
The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave rents high-end GPUs to the biggest AI labs. Now it wants to run that same cloud inside the sealed facilities where America keeps its secrets, with the contractor Leidos as its guide. The two companies announced the collaboration on Thursday. CoreWeave will place its AI platform […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-30
Microsoft introduces its first agent-powered cybersecurity model and Project Perception AI patching system - can it avoid making the same mistakes OpenAI made?
Microsoft's new security AI writes and deploys its own patches, six days after OpenAI's models escaped a sandbox and hacked Hugging Face [...]
