GAO Says DOD IT Programs Lack Fraud Training, Zero Trust Plans
The watchdog's seventh annual review of 18 major Pentagon IT business programs found gaps in fraud risk awareness, cybersecurity strategies and performance reporting.
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MIT uses AI to make RNA vaccines stable at room temperature
MIT researchers say an algorithm trained on small datasets found lipid nanoparticle formulations that kept mRNA Covid-19 vaccines stable for a year without cold storage.
AWS adds Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 to Bedrock and Claude Platform
Amazon Web Services says the new Sonnet model improves coding and knowledge work at a lower cost per task, and is available through two AWS access paths.
Berkeley report maps human rights risks of LLMs in three fields
A Human Rights Center study based on 56 interviews across 24 countries finds privacy and freedom-of-thought risks as law, journalism and education adopt large language models.
Arm details role in NVIDIA’s Open Agent Safety Platform
Arm says its CPUs run AI agents while Arm-based DPUs such as NVIDIA BlueField-4 police them from a separate trust domain.
Cloudflare adds WebMCP support to its Kitesurf agent browser
Cloudflare says its Workers-based browser for AI agents now supports WebMCP tools, passes over 730,000 Web Platform Tests subtests and runs inside the terminal.
Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore marks first year of AI lab
Microsoft says its first Southeast Asian research lab has started nine new university projects and tied its AI agenda to Singapore's national strategy.
Cloudflare brings native Rust and Tokio to Workers via Emscripten
Cloudflare says an experimental preview lets Rust code built on Tokio, including real TCP sockets, run on Workers through a new wasm-bindgen Emscripten target.
NASA targets uncrewed Starliner-1 flight, crew return by 2028
NASA says Boeing's Starliner will fly uncrewed as soon as December to validate thruster fixes, with astronauts not expected back aboard until Starliner-2 in 2028.
GitHub Security Lab finds 24 Android bugs with AI taskflow agent
GitHub says custom LLM audit taskflows uncovered location tracking in OsmAnd and a Wikipedia app account takeover, but human review is still needed to judge severity.