Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage
Petlibro founder and CEO York Wu provided more information about an outage that left users unable to control their smart pet feeders through the companion app and, in some reported cases, left them with hungry pets.…
Petlibro, a company owned by Shenzhen, China-headquartered firm Shenzh…
, first acknowledged the outage on Tuesday at 5 am PT.
At 7 pm PT on Wednesday, Petlibro said the outage was resolved.
Datavault AI Plans $94.5 Million CyberCatch Buy to Shield Organizations Against AI Attacks
Datavault AI plans to add artificial intelligence-driven, quantum-resistant cyber risk mitigation to its Data Vault Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) by acquiring cybersecurity company CyberCatch for $94.…
5 million, according to a Friday (Aug.
14) press release.
The proposed transaction will also bring CyberCatch’s AI-enabled conti…
AI Agents Can Move Money, But They Can’t Pay for Their Mistakes
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) wallets may be capable of moving money, negotiating terms and entering transactions without human intervention, but under existing U.…
law they cannot be held legally responsible when those actions go wrong.
That accountability gap is emerging as a central legal issue as busine…
“The problem with agentic wallets is not that they can move money,” Ga…
Even Taylor Swift Can’t Resist This Newlywed Hair Tradition
Over the weekend, Taylor Swift made a solo appearance at a wedding sporting a significant chop and sweeping set of bangs. What new era does this signal?
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World-class threat modeler Adam Shostack shared he was "blown away" by OpenAI's revelations about the Hugging Face attack, and explains why his new threat model for LLMs is both "lightweight yet still usable.