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Switching Password Managers in 2026

An Apple password-management engineer (writing personally) explains switching password managers via iOS direct app-to-app export, crediting FIDO Credential Exchange for passkey portability.

Ricky Mondello, an Apple engineer in password management and authentication (writing personally, not for Apple), demonstrates moving 100 items from 1Password to Apple Passwords via the iOS system export, which transfers passwords, passkeys, verification codes, and notes directly between apps with Face ID confirmation and no intermediate files. He credits the FIDO Alliance's Credential Exchange format (first draft May 2024, now an open spec) and iOS 26/macOS 26 for enabling phishing-resistant credential transfer between apps like 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, DuckDuckGo, and Devolutions. The post is advice rather than news, recommending bulk transfer on the existing device, switching AutoFill to the new app, and treating the new manager as the source of truth.

Lobsters · security·Sep 8, 13:55 UTC · 8d agoIndustry1

Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator

Schneier and Sanders link a four-part Rewiring Democracy essay series covering civic AI in Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and Scotland.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders announced links to their Rewiring Democracy essay series on The Renovator. The four parts cover Japan's digital democracy party Team Mirai, Switzerland's public AI model Apertus, Brazil's Open Knowledge civic technologists, and civic AI in Scotland. The post is a brief index without technical details.

Schneier on Security·Sep 1, 09:59 UTC · 15d agoAI policy

Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff

Natural Resources Wales inadvertently exposed diversity data of about 2,000 current and former staff via a 2021 Freedom of Information spreadsheet published online.

Natural Resources Wales confirmed equality monitoring data of roughly 2,000 employees who worked between April 2013 and March 2018 was inadvertently disclosed in a spreadsheet released in 2021 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The data may have included ethnicity, disability status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, Welsh language ability, and caring responsibilities — special category data under UK GDPR. The breach was reported to the Information Commissioner's Office, the data was removed and permanently deleted, and NRW says it has found no evidence of misuse. The issue was discovered only after a member of the public alerted the regulator on 23 August 2026.

The Register · Security·Sep 7, 11:04 UTC · 9d agoData breach

One Symptom, Three Levers: A Critical Review of On-Policy Self-Distillation

A review paper frames on-policy self-distillation collapse as governed by three levers: token weighting, privileged information, and guidance decay.

The paper critically reviews On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD), where a language model trains on its own generations scored token-by-token by a teacher conditioned on privileged information such as reference solutions or environment feedback. It identifies collapse, the progressive narrowing of producible reasoning paths, as the dominant failure mode and analyzes it through three levers: signal weighting, the nature of privileged information, and teacher dynamics. The review is restricted to mathematical reasoning, reports no new experiments, and offers a shared vocabulary separating settled findings from disputed ones.

Hugging Face daily papers·Aug 25, 20:00 UTC · 22d agoAI research

Lessons from the hacks

The recent run of cyberattacks by in-development frontier models has got me thinking a lot about how our current incentive systems are not well suited for such fast technological transitions. The two primary power structures here are the rapidly growing technology companies and the federal government. The companies are incentivized to grow, so they can keep growing and keep scaling – in what is…

Interconnects·Aug 9, 14:57 UTC · Aug 9, 2026AI research

LexFlip: A Dissociation Diagnostic for Legal Meaning Preservation Metrics

LexFlip releases 373 minimal perturbations of Quebec statutory French that reverse legal force while preserving tokens, exposing weaknesses in embedding-based meaning preservation metrics.

LexFlip provides 373 minimal perturbations of Quebec statutory French that reverse legal force while preserving 0.93 of tokens, creating dissociation items that break monotone token-overlap metric validation. The seven embedding and BERTScore metrics tested register only 0.022-0.039 of their identical-to-unrelated range on these edits, versus 0.670 for bidirectional NLI. Against FrJudge, with a measured human ceiling of r=0.597, a bare length feature outscores every semantic metric tested.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 4, 15:49 UTC · 12d agoAI research

Technical Manual for a Toolkit for Measuring Contextual Individuation in Transformer Language Models

An open methodology toolkit measures whether transformer language models contextualize fixed word forms across domains using bridge forms and layer-wise silhouette analysis.

The manual documents an open toolkit built around 'bridge forms' - identical written words recurring across two or more subject domains with a different sense in each - to test whether transformer language models individuate word occurrences by context beyond the embedding layer. It covers declarative specification of bridge forms, Wikipedia corpus acquisition, occurrence localization, layer-wise representation extraction, domain-pairwise silhouette measurement, and visualization, justifying each choice against failure modes such as sense contamination and subword-tokenization misalignment. It is a methodological and implementation reference and reports no empirical results.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 4, 16:38 UTC · 12d agoAI research

Nigeria Looks to Sovereign Cloud for Cyber, National Security

Nigeria launches financing, procurement, and infrastructure policies to build a sovereign cloud for cyber and national security.

Nigeria has introduced financing, procurement, and infrastructure policies to accelerate its sovereign cloud initiative. The program aims to keep government data under national control and expand domestic technical expertise. It is framed as part of a broader effort to strengthen cyber and national security capabilities in West Africa's largest economy.

Dark Reading·Aug 26, 08:00 UTC · 21d agoPolicy & legal

llm-anthropic 0.28

llm-anthropic 0.28 released with Claude Fable 5.1 support, default reasoning traces and a new ClaudeRefusal exception.

Developer Simon Willison released version 0.28 of the llm-anthropic Python plugin, adding support for Claude Fable 5.1. Reasoning traces are now displayed by default for models that support them, and a new llm_anthropic.ClaudeRefusal exception is raised when Claude returns a refusal.

Simon Willison·Sep 2, 17:59 UTC · 14d agoAI tools & infra2

Climate-ModernBERT: Revisiting Corpus Composition for Domain-Adaptive Continued Pretraining

Climate-ModernBERT domain-adapted encoders reach 76.3 average F1 across nine climate benchmarks, 2.8 points above vanilla ModernBERT-Base.

The authors continue pretraining ModernBERT-Base on three climate corpora - academic text, climate-filtered web data, and synthetic documents - and compare joint mixtures against parameter-space merging of specialized checkpoints. The best model achieves 76.3 average F1 across nine climate NLP benchmarks, a 2.8-point improvement over the vanilla baseline. Academic climate corpora provide the strongest adaptation signal, and parameter-space merging outperforms joint multi-source training while preserving complementary corpus information; all variants are released.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 7, 17:41 UTC · 9d agoAI research

Real-World Knowledge-Guided Change Data Synthesis for Remote Sensing

Researchers introduce KnowChange, a framework that uses pretrained vision-language models to synthesize realistic change-detection training data for remote sensing.

KnowChange is a knowledge-guided change data synthesis framework that leverages pretrained vision-language models to reason about plausible change locations and class transitions from pre-change scenes and desired change types. It addresses the limited class-transition coverage and inflexibility of handcrafted rule-based synthesis methods, enabling diverse change types in a unified pipeline. Experiments show KnowChange-generated data outperforms existing synthetic datasets in both synthetic-to-real transfer and synthetic data augmentation, despite compact generation scale.

Hugging Face daily papers·Aug 24, 20:00 UTC · 23d agoAI research

Anthropic Adds Plugin Evals to Claude Code: 6 Grader Types, a No-Plugin Baseline, and a CI Gate for Skills

Anthropic ships a plugin evals workflow for Claude Code with six grader types, a no-plugin baseline arm, and a CI gate via threshold and cost flags.

Anthropic published a plugin evals workflow for Claude Code, exposed via the "claude plugin eval" command on v2.1.269+. Six grader types exist: regex, tool_used, tool_order, and file_exists are free transcript checks, while llm and baseline invoke a billed judge model. Every case runs with and without the plugin, and the delta (Δ) isolates the plugin's contribution; a Δ near zero with a failing tool_used:Skill grader indicates the skill never triggers. CI gating uses --threshold 0.8, --max-cost-usd, --trust-plugin, and --no-publish flags, with results written to a report.html under evals/results/.

MarkTechPost·Sep 11, 21:05 UTC · 5d agoAI tools & infra2

Does Your Agent's Memory Survive a Model Upgrade? A Controlled Study of Memory Portability

A controlled study finds agent memory portability varies sharply: fixed-schema knowledge graphs survive model swaps while compressed notes degrade.

The study compares preserving an agent's history as raw long context, RAG chunks, compressed natural-language notes, or fixed-schema knowledge graphs across model upgrades, using 48 synthetic histories and two open-weight sub-10B-parameter models. Fixed-schema KG accuracy changed by only +0.0004 ± 0.0020 after a writer swap, while compressed NOTES shifted asymmetrically by +9.91 or -13.28 percentage points depending on migration direction. Mixed 50/50 embedding migrations captured only 4.96 of an 11.90-point RAG re-embedding gain; 80% of the NOTES deficit came from information lost at construction, and 81% of the RAG deficit from retrieval failures. Store-only repair of NOTES failed to reach 90% recovery in all 48 cases, while retaining raw histories enabled recovery in 34 of 48 for one direction.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 4, 16:44 UTC · 12d agoAI research1

Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

Anthropic published updated Claude consumer system prompts, including changes steering the model away from reproducing song lyrics, likely over copyright concerns.

Anthropic publishes system prompts for Claude.ai and Claude mobile apps, including historic revisions, and has reorganized them into an index with per-model pages such as the Haiku 4.5 page showing the original October 15, 2025 prompt and an updated January 18, 2026 version. The latest consumer prompt strongly discourages reproducing song lyrics, a behavioral constraint likely tied to copyright considerations. Prompts for Claude Cowork and Claude Code are not included in the published set.

Simon Willison·Sep 2, 14:16 UTC · 14d agoAI safety & security

17th August – Threat Intelligence Report

Colombia's Ministry of Justice suffered a ransomware attack disrupting drug-monitoring and legal public services, per Check Point's 17 August 2026 threat intelligence report.

Check Point Research's weekly threat intelligence bulletin for 17 August 2026 leads with a ransomware attack on Colombia's Ministry of Justice. The attack affected part of the ministry's technology infrastructure and disrupted public services related to illicit-drug monitoring and legal processes. Officials confirmed that some files were impacted; the bulletin also aggregates other cyber research and attack discoveries from the week.

Check Point Research·Aug 17, 13:37 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Ransomware

Rhysida Ransomware Group Targets Berlin Government Ahead of Vote

Rhysida ransomware hit Berlin's state government weeks before the September 20 election, claiming 5.79 TB stolen; officials refused the ransom.

Berlin's government confirmed an August cyberattack on its administrative network, with data exfiltrated between August 7 and August 12 and departments isolated on August 17. The Rhysida group claimed responsibility on August 28, alleging theft of 5.79 TB and 1.44 million files including personal data on 12,076 individuals, payroll files, plaintext credentials, and vulnerability analyses of Berlin's water supply. Officials said election systems were not affected and refused to pay; Rhysida has claimed roughly 280 victims since 2023, entering via VPNs without MFA, Zerologon, or phishing.

Security Affairs·Aug 29, 10:56 UTC · 18d agoRansomware in the wild

Anthropic merges Claude Chat, Cowork, and more into a single product

Anthropic merged Claude Chat and Cowork into one product and launched Claude Docs and Slides for creating and exporting documents and presentations.

Anthropic is folding Claude Chat and Cowork into a single product where Claude automatically determines what a task needs, eliminating tab switching. It also introduced Claude Docs and Claude Slides for creating, editing, and exporting documents and presentations as PowerPoint or PDF, with Claude Design now integrated into conversations. The rollout starts with Pro and Max plans, followed by Team and Free tiers; enterprise admins receive at least 30 days' notice.

The Decoder·updated 18:09 UTC · 4h ago·first 16:31 UTC · 5h agoAI industry 5 sources

When Models Edit Too Much: On the Fidelity of Minimal Code Edits

A 400-task BigCodeBench evaluation shows frontier LLMs widely over-edit code; a preservation instruction cuts excess edits and raises Pass@1 by 2.3 points.

Researchers built an evaluation framework from 400 BigCodeBench problems with injected AST-level corruptions, each with a known minimal patch, to measure over-editing in LLM code repair. Even strong models like GPT-5.5 produce unnecessarily large edits despite high Pass@1. Adding a preservation instruction reduced average excess Levenshtein distance from 0.195 to 0.131, cut added cognitive complexity by 26.6%, and raised Pass@1 by 2.3 points. Reinforcement learning post-training gave the best out-of-domain edit-fidelity trade-off, while supervised fine-tuning overfit to seen corruption patterns.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 2, 20:00 UTC · 14d agoAI research1

The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane

Microsoft argues patch windows are shrinking and urges a new security control plane to protect systems between vulnerability discovery and remediation.

A Microsoft Security Blog post contends that the window between vulnerability discovery and patch deployment is collapsing, leaving exploitable gaps. It argues organizations need a security 'control plane' that provides protection in the gap between discovery and remediation. The piece is vendor thought leadership with no new incident, CVE, or product announcement details.

Microsoft Security Blog·Aug 25, 16:00 UTC · 22d agoIndustry1

Water sector example added to the NCSC’s Secure connectivity principles

NCSC UK adds a water sector example to its Secure Connectivity Principles, the first ICS community-authored content on its site.

The UK NCSC has added a water sector example to its Secure Connectivity Principles guidance. It is the first content authored by the Industrial Control System Community of Interest to appear on ncsc.gov.uk. The guidance helps ICS operators apply secure connectivity practices.

NCSC UK·Aug 11, 12:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Advisory

FTC Withdraws Obsolete Policy Statement

The FTC rescinded its 2021 policy statement that applied the Health Breach Notification Rule to health apps and connected devices collecting consumer health data.

The Federal Trade Commission formally rescinded its 2021 Policy Statement on Breaches by Health Apps and Other Connected Devices. The statement had purported to apply the FTC's Health Breach Notification Rule to health apps and connected devices that collect consumer health information. The Commission considers the statement obsolete following its 2024 update to the Health Breach Notification Rule.

DataBreaches.net·Sep 10, 13:40 UTC · 6d agoPolicy & legal

Large DDoS attack knocks Norwegian public services offline

A large DDoS attack on Norwegian IT partner Vivicta disrupted 10 government services, including ID-porten used by over 4.5 million users, for 30+ hours.

Norway's Digitalisation Agency (Digdir) said a distributed denial-of-service attack that began Monday targeted the infrastructure of its IT partner Vivicta and lasted around 30 hours at varying intensity, with some services still affected Tuesday. Disrupted services included ID-porten, a national digital identity gateway used by more than 4.5 million people, which many government services and parts of the health sector, such as online pharmacies and the electronic prescription system, rely on for authentication. Digdir said attackers did not gain access to sensitive information, and it was the third DDoS incident since June, reportedly two to three times larger than the previous one. Attribution and possible links between the incidents remain unclear.

The Record·Aug 25, 11:47 UTC · 22d agoThreat actor

Local governments in four states dealing with cyberattacks that have shut down services

Ransomware and cyberattacks disrupted local governments in California, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin, taking Suisun City's 911 offline.

Suisun City, California (population 30,000) shut down its IT network after malicious software hit 911 routing, police and fire dispatch; the city declared a state of emergency and the FBI is investigating. Coweta, Oklahoma confirmed a ransomware attack affecting all computers and digital services, with off-site backups slated for restoration. Mitchell (South Dakota), Coryell County (Texas) and Washburn County (Wisconsin) also disclosed cyberattacks that shut down networks and disrupted phone and payment systems.

The Record·Aug 11, 13:14 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Ransomware in the wild

ExecCritic: Learn to Test, Test to Improve for Coding Agents

ExecCritic separates test generation from patching for coding agents, lifting SWE-bench Verified resolution to 72.6%.

ExecCritic pairs a test-verify-revise scaffold with role-specific reinforcement learning: a Test agent writes repository-native tests and a Repair agent fixes code from execution feedback, both using Qwen-3.5-35B-A3B backbones. Post-trained Qwen agents compose to 72.6% on SWE-bench Verified, an 11.4-point gain over the 61.2% no-test baseline, without stronger-model or oracle feedback at evaluation time. The work shows test quality is the key variable: base-agent tests lowered resolution to 57.3% while GPT-5.6-sol tests raised it to 65.3%.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 8, 17:53 UTC · 8d agoAI research1

[0day-rubbish] core-admin 1.0.164 (build 16468) Systemic shell command injection via ineffective quote escaping (8.8)

0day Rubbish discloses a CVSS 8.8 shell command injection in core-admin 1.0.164 via ineffective quote escaping, enabling authenticated remote code execution.

0day Rubbish Research Team publicly disclosed a systemic shell command injection (CWE-78) in core-admin 1.0.164 (build 16468). The flaw stems from ineffective quote escaping and scores 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). The disclosure does not mention a CVE identifier or observed exploitation in the wild.

Full Disclosure·Sep 8, 17:31 UTC · 8d agoVulnerability1

DDoS Attack Hits Norwegian Government Services

A coordinated DDoS campaign disrupted Norwegian government online services, causing availability outages across public digital services.

A coordinated distributed denial-of-service campaign caused disruption to Norwegian government digital services, according to Infosecurity Magazine. The attack affected the availability of public-facing services, and no data compromise was indicated in initial reporting. The responsible group or motive was not named in the report.

Infosecurity Magazine·Aug 26, 09:00 UTC · 21d agoThreat actor

New Malware 'Rover' Targets Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan

Unit 42 reports a spearphishing attack delivering the custom Rover Trojan to India's Ambassador to Afghanistan, exploiting CVE-2010-3333 in Word.

On December 24, 2015, Unit 42 identified a targeted spearphishing email spoofing Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, sent to India's Ambassador to Afghanistan. The RTF attachment exploited CVE-2010-3333 in Microsoft Word to download a downloader from newsumbrella.net, which retrieved the Rover Trojan and DLL plugins from 46.166.165.254. Rover uses OpenCV for webcam capture, OpenAL for audio recording and libsndfile for audio files, with data exfiltration over its C2 channel; separate payload versions target Windows XP and later systems.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 17, 12:57 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Threat actor in the wildCVE-2010-3333

Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's

Arena.ai found Claude Fable 5.1 writes 30% longer answers with fewer em dashes, hedges, and validation phrases than Fable 5.

Arena.ai compared tens of thousands of high-reasoning Text Arena outputs from Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Fable 5.1. Fable 5.1's median answer length rose 30% to 414 words (from 319), remaining 21% shorter than Opus 5's 525. Em-dash usage fell from 16.2 to 11.0 per 1,000 words while semicolons rose to 6.09, hedges like 'perhaps' and 'arguably' dropped 36%, and praise appeared in 1.98% of responses versus 3.17%. Long content words fell from 42.6% to 38.6% and abstract nouns declined 25%, suggesting the successor's language is less 'load-bearing'.

The Decoder·Sep 10, 15:26 UTC · 6d agoAI research1

Quoting Rick Brewster

Paint.NET added a clean-room Direct2D rewrite for WINE, largely written by Anthropic's Claude and described as unreviewed 'vibe coded' code.

Rick Brewster says Paint.NET now ships a from-scratch, reverse-engineered Direct2D implementation (PaintDotNet.Windows.Direct2D1.Managed.dll) used under WINE via a /wine flag, since Direct2D was never completed well enough there. He credits the Claude coding assistant with writing most of the code, calling it largely 'vibe coded' and not thoroughly reviewed. Simon Willison shared the quote as an example of shipping AI-assisted systems code in production software.

Simon Willison·Sep 2, 05:50 UTC · 14d agoAI tools & infra1

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt·Aug 3, 06:38 UTC · Aug 3, 2026Data breach

Separating AI's Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems

Schneier and Sanders argue AI's harms stem from capitalist incentives and governance gaps, not just technical limits, urging structural reform.

Writing with Nathan E. Sanders in Tech Policy Press, Bruce Schneier argues that AI's technological problems (hallucination, sycophancy, overconfidence) must be separated from socio-political problems created by capitalist market incentives. The essay contrasts US frontier-scale, energy-intensive development with China's incentive-driven leaner open models on commodity hardware, and cites Switzerland's Apertus model - trained on licensed data using public computing and renewable hydropower - as a public-interest alternative. It contends that proposals like research pauses, data-center moratoria, and federal screening conflate technology problems with governance problems, and that society faces independent choices on both axes.

Schneier on Security·Aug 15, 00:00 UTC · Aug 15, 2026AI policy