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Hacking attacks on Minnesota water companies resemble Iranian methods | Fox News Video

Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin reports on a probe into a cyberattack on Minnesota water companies on ‘Special Report.’

Fox News - Jul 31, 2026 7:25pm EDT

Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 6:38pm EDT

Google Just Torched the Credibility of Its Satellite Images

The Atlantic - Jul 31, 2026 6:29pm EDT

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.

Ars Technica - Jul 31, 2026 5:40pm EDT

OpenAI finds evidence that other AI agents escaped containment as it investigates hacking

New breakouts discovered after AI models escaped a testing environment and hacked a startup

The Globe and Mail - Jul 31, 2026 5:06pm EDT

Leaked Memo Links Iran to Minnesota Water Utility Cyberattacks. Dozens of Systems Were Targeted in Escalating Campaign.

The communication, distributed to members of the WaterISAC, references an alert from the Minnesota Fusion Center concluding that the ongoing attacks are attributed by U.S. authorities to Iran-affiliated hackers.

International Business Times - Jul 31, 2026 4:22pm EDT

Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft added nearly $1.5 trillion in combined value this week

Amazon, Microsoft and Google added hundreds of billions of dollars to their market caps, while Apple and Meta saw their market valuations fall.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 4:06pm EDT

Americans give all-day school phone bans a ringing endorsement

Polling suggests patience with handsets in the classroom is running shorter than a teenager's battery life

Register UK - Jul 31, 2026 3:30pm EDT

Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected

Gizmodo - Jul 31, 2026 3:12pm EDT

Mission to rescue space telescope may be in jeopardy - The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a satellite that studies gamma-ray bursts.

ABC News - Jul 31, 2026 3:12pm EDT

AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says Hugging Face boss

Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 2:44pm EDT

How Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $45 billion AI hedge fund — and lost most of it in days

Leopold Aschenbrenner, a former OpenAI researcher-turned-hedge fund manager, saw a dramatic decline this week in his AI-focused fund, Situational Awareness.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 2:42pm EDT

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

NPR - Jul 31, 2026 2:22pm EDT

Anthropic’s AI Claude hacked into three organizations during cybersecurity test

Guardian UK - Jul 31, 2026 1:26pm EDT

Telus cuts dividend in half to deploy more cash for debt repayment, shares dive

Lowering the payout was widely expected - but not by this much. Guidance disappoints as well

The Globe and Mail - Jul 31, 2026 1:21pm EDT

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens

ABC News - Jul 31, 2026 12:46pm EDT

AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem

An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit

Scientific American - Jul 31, 2026 12:40pm EDT

Nearly 16,000 women tested negative for BRCA. Their cancer risk was still higher

Up to 10 percent of breast cancer cases are thought to be hereditary, caused by gene changes passed on in families.

Newsweek - Jul 31, 2026 11:56am EDT

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

Register UK - Jul 31, 2026 11:55am EDT

Amazon says it got $600 million in Trump tariff refunds and will pass return along to some customers

The company previously hadn't disclosed whether it would recoup tariff costs after the Supreme Court ruled many of President Donald Trump's levies were illegal.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 11:27am EDT

Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder

Whoever wins, we lose

Register UK - Jul 31, 2026 11:15am EDT

China And The U.S. Are Clashing In The AI Race. Beijing's Military Is Reportedly Using American Models to Train Its Defense Systems

According to a Reuters review of over 80 Chinese academic papers and patents, documents linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) reveal widespread use of a technique known as "model distillation."

International Business Times - Jul 31, 2026 11:10am EDT

Dwindling cash and soaring memory costs: Tech's AI buildout has ballooning price tag

Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla all reported negative cash flow in the latest quarter, while Meta's cash generation plummeted by 91%.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 10:57am EDT

Türk Telekom builds AI-powered shield against rising cyber threats

Tür Telekom, which currently serves more than 5,000 organizations with over 50 products and services, is blocking thousands of phishing, DDoS and malware...

Daily Sabah - Jul 31, 2026 10:56am EDT