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Lyptus Research presents a robust analysis of offensive cybersecurity time horizons using METR's methodology, tracking AI capability growth across frontier models, token-budget scaling, and open-source diffusion. The report concludes that frontier capability has advanced significantly, with P50 around 3.2 hours for tasks requiring human-expert time, and highlights the adaptation buffer to open-weight models and implications for defense and policy.
Switzerland is cultivating an open-source semiconductor ecosystem around the RISC-V ISA to accelerate AI hardware research. The article highlights ETH Zurich, EPFL, and CSEM collab…
The article explains Via's new tiered H.264 streaming license fees effective in 2026, who is affected, and how the structure impacts large platforms. It includes FRAND consideratio…
Ars Technica covers research showing a large portion of AI users defer to AI outputs without critical scrutiny, a phenomenon termed 'cognitive surrender.' The studies used Cognitiv…
Ars Technica reports on OpenClaw’s security crisis, highlighting a high-severity vulnerability that can escalate privileges from operator.pairing to operator.admin, effectively giv…