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Nozomi Compass helps industrial teams manage OT assets and vulnerabilitiesnew

Nozomi Networks launched Compass, an OT asset and vulnerability management platform unifying asset records, remediation workflows, and compliance evidence for industrial teams.

Nozomi Networks announced Compass, an OT asset and service management platform built on real-time first-party asset data from its Vantage cyber-physical security platform. It provides OT-native workflows, governed change approvals, consequence-based risk scoring, and continuous audit-ready compliance evidence mapped to NERC CIP, IEC 62443, NIS2, and TSA. The platform integrates with EAM, CMDB, ITAM, ITSM, SIEM, and SOAR tools and is designed to safely support AI-driven and agentic OT workflows with human oversight.

Help Net Security · 46m agoTools

Hoss: Fast Oblivious Semantic Search with Heterogeneous GPU-CPU-TEE Architecture

Hoss uses heterogeneous GPU-CPU TEEs for oblivious semantic search, achieving up to 67x speedup over the Compass ORAM-based system.

Hoss is a first-of-its-kind oblivious semantic search system built on a heterogeneous CPU-GPU TEE architecture, hosting hot-path HNSW graph traversal in large GPU TEE private memory and offloading lower graph layers to CPU TEEs. It invokes oblivious primitives only for lower-layer accesses and adds host-access ORAM and data-dependent optimizations. Benchmarked against prior state-of-the-art Compass, the prototype achieves up to 67x speedup while maintaining high recall, with larger gains at scale.

arXiv cs.CR · 12d agoResearch

Hacker Conversations: Vinnie Liu, Performer Turned Ringmaster

SecurityWeek interviews Bishop Fox CEO Vinnie Liu, recruited by the NSA at 17 in 1999, on hacker ethics, intent, and his career.

SecurityWeek's Hacker Conversations series profiles Vinnie Liu, who was recruited by the NSA in 1999 at age 17 via an IRC contact and later became CEO of security consulting firm Bishop Fox. The interview covers his white-hat philosophy that hacking for fun differs from hacking to harm, the moral development he attributes to parents and educators, and the industry's shift from the NSA to commercial firms like @stake after its 2000 acquisition of L0pht Heavy Industries. The piece is biographical and opinion-oriented with no incident, vulnerability, or research content.

SecurityWeek · 5d agoIndustry

How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?

A FOSS maintainer manually graded 102 F-Droid apps from the September 12, 2026 update batch, finding many show signs of LLM-generated code.

A student and FOSS app maintainer reviewed 102 apps pushed to F-Droid on September 12, 2026, assigning each a three-tier rating for likelihood of LLM-authored code (mostly AI >50%, hard to say/mostly human, no signs of AI). The heuristic relies on commit aesthetics, README and branding style, and the presence of agentic infrastructure like Claude Code or Codex, which automatically places an app in the 'mostly AI' tier. Example ratings include Amber (Nostr event signer) as mostly AI, and Aria for Misskey as showing no AI signs. The author stresses reliable detection of LLM-generated code from text alone is impossible, so ratings are approximate.

Hacker News · AI · 1d agoAI researchHN 46↑ · 23 comments

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Musk verbally agreed to slow AI development; experts debate whether the pact advances safety or entrenches incumbents.

OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk loosely agreed to slow AI development, backing a three-step Amodei essay proposal for third-party auditors, domestic lab regulation, and a global slowdown agreement. Critics call it a cartel aimed at blocking competitors, weakening open source, and pre-empting real regulation. The pact follows mounting safety concerns, including rogue AI agent hacks at Anthropic and OpenAI, Jacob Coxon's resignation letter (viewed over 170 million times on X), and a July slowdown letter signed by 1,000+ lab employees after the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident. Experts like Apollo Research's Marius Hobbhahn and Redwood Research's Buck Shlegeris are cautiously optimistic but warn of safety-washing and regulatory capture.

The Verge · AI · 1d agoAI industry

IFM Releases K2 Horizon: Six Apache 2.0 Models From 0.9B to 375B

MBZUAI's IFM released K2 Horizon, six Apache 2.0 models (0.9B-375B) with open training data, code, and checkpoints, claiming the largest fully open-source launch.

The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), launched by MBZUAI, released K2 Horizon: six Apache 2.0 models (0.9B, 3.7B, 7B, 32B, 36B-A4B, 375B-A23B) shipping with the ~20-trillion-token pretraining corpus, intermediate checkpoints, training code, and logs, which IFM calls the largest fully open-source launch in AI history. The 375B-A23B scores 70.2 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 87.3 on GPQA Diamond; the 7B model posts 70.6 on SWE-bench Verified. New techniques include MoVA, which extends MoE routing into attention (36B total, ~4B active), and Uno, a LoRA adapter giving roughly 3x lossless decoding speedup. IFM's own reward-hacking audit re-scored 375B-A23B from 70.2% to 66.9% after flagging 24 of 712 Terminal-Bench trials.

MarkTechPost · 9d agoModel release1