What is a PHP vulnerability? Security flaws prompt shutdowns of major websites amid global cybersecurity responseTwo critical vulnerabilities in PHP have prompted the shutdown of several websites across multiple countries. Cybersecurity teams are activ...
ETtech Explainer: How a flaw in PHP, the code behind 70% of websites, sent governments offlineSince PHP powers 70% of the world’s websites, the vulnerabilities can allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code on affected servers o...
How an AI model discovered critical safety flaws in government websitesA significant number of websites, including those managed by the French government and Wikimedia, faced downtime due to identified vulnerab...
Eternal’s Q2 profit rises; SBI flags customer data leakEternal’s Q2 profit has surged, with Blinkit contributing significantly to the growth. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging FaceThe episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed...
Google launches AI model Gemini 4 Argon: Here’s how it stacks up against GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, an advanced AI model tailored for coding and cybersecurity tasks. The model is currently available to s...
OpenAI apologies for Australian government website hack, pledges to rebuild trust(Updates throughout with more details of blog post)- OpenAI apologised for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI ag...
OpenAI to preview GPT-6 Cyber within daysOpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman and rival Anthropic's CEO earlier this month joined industry leaders in calling for a slower pace of AI d...
Ultraviolette's fresh funding; Bira 91 revival planUltraviolette has roped in Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan as an investor and advisor after a fresh capital raise. This and more in today’s ETtech T...
Palo Alto Networks unveils AI-powered cybersecurity service using Claude, GPT modelsHackers are increasingly using AI to find and exploit weaknesses in corporate networks, prompting cybersecurity firms to build defenses tha...
Grok 4.7: What’s new in SpaceXAI’s latest model and why it mattersElon Musk’s AI company SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.7, its latest model focused on coding and knowledge work. The company says the model is...
Global AI stocks fall as industry chiefs call for slowing developmentAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a lengthy essay shared on X on Saturday, called on AI companies to slow the rate at which they advance model...
Anthropic CEO seeks AI slowdown, tighter safety checks and global cooperationAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI model development. He proposed a three-step plan involving independent evaluators an...
Sam Altman apologised for OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra release after Pro and Plus users couldn't access the new modelOpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, billed as a generational leap and a possible marker of the AGI era, launched on 3 September 2026 to immediate complai...
GPT-6 Astra signals new leap in AI autonomyUnveiled on Thursday, Astra has outperformed rival models from Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese labs Alibaba and Moonshot on key benchma...
GPT-6 Astra is here: OpenAI’s new AI model can use computers, browse web and get work doneOpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its newest frontier AI model. This advanced model aims to significantly boost computer use and professiona...
AI agent-led threats to rise multifold in next few yearsAI agent-related threats could surge three to fourfold over the next 18 months, Shivaprakash Abburu, cybersecurity partner at EY India, tol...