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A raid on X's Paris office was carried out by the Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit on Tuesday with Europol and French police, as part of an ongoing investigation that expanded in July to include Grok. As previously reported by Reuters, Elon Musk and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino were also summoned for hearings in April. The investigation, which was initially launched last year, is looking into several allegations against X and Grok, including complicity in possession and distribution of child pornography and denial of crimes against humanity (related to Holocaust denial content), along with claims that X was manipulating its algorithm and … Read the full story at The Verge.

Dan Cole, senior vice president of product management at Sophos, unpacks how cybersecurity strategy is shifting from a prevention-first mindset toward resilience and response. Cole traces his career from the early days of mass malware outbreaks like Melissa and ILOVEYOU through today’s environment of nation-state actors, AI-assisted attacks, and sprawling hybrid workforces. While the tools.. The post Security Is Shifting From Prevention to Resilience appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by investor enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and AI investments — Retailer joins a select group of mostly tech companies with a 13-figure valuation — Retail behemoth Walmart hit a market capitalization …

Nintendo has had plenty of highs over its few decades in the video game industry. Popularizing home consoles with the NES, introducing new audiences to games through the Wii's motion controls, and the touchscreen Trojan horse that was the Nintendo DS, to name a few. But often these successes were followed by missteps; the Wii sold 100 million units, while its follow-up, the Wii U, couldn't even manage a quarter of that. But that precarity looks to change. The Switch is now Nintendo's best-selling console ever, surpassing the DS with 155 million units sold since its debut in 2017. And over that span Nintendo has transformed itself into a comp … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it is expanding a criminal investigation into X for alleged crimes, including the possession and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.

Financial Times: LexisNexis-owner Relx, Reuters-owner Thomson Reuters, and other stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work — Shares in LexisNexis owner Relx fall 15% after new tools for Claude Cowork unveiled — Billions of pounds were wiped off the value …

Iron Mountain, a leading data storage and recovery services company, says that a recent breach claimed by the Everest extortion gang is limited to mostly marketing materials. [...]

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More than 35 years after the first website went online, the web has evolved from static pages to complex interactive systems, often with security added as an afterthought. To mitigate risks, developers use security headers that instruct browsers how to handle content securely. Early on, browser support was inconsistent.

Jen Judson / Bloomberg: Overland AI, which develops off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for military purposes, raised $100M led by 8VC, bringing its total funding to $142M — The Seattle-based defense firm Overland AI Inc. has raised $100 million in new funding to help accelerate the use of robots …

Henry Chandonnet / Business Insider: Grindr is testing a subscription tier called Edge with AI-powered personalized matches and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $200 a week — - Grindr is testing a new AI subscription tier called “Edge.” The pilot prices are steep, ranging from $80 to $200 a week.

Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the last six months — Crypto.com is launching a dedicated platform, OG, for prediction markets just days before the Super Bowl, the company said Tuesday.

A security researcher found 386 malicious ‘skills’ published on ClawHub, a skill repository for the popular OpenClaw AI assistant project

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Y Combinator says founders can opt to receive their customary allotment, typically about $500K, in the Circle-issued USDC, starting with the Spring 2026 cohort — In the latest sign of digital currencies going mainstream, Silicon Valley's most prominent startup incubator will allow …

French authorities raided the Paris office of X and summonsed Elon Musk to France for question regarding nonconsensual and sexually suggestive deepfakes generated by xAI's chatbot and posted to X as the global firestorm surrounding them escalates. The post French Police Raid X Paris Office, Summons Musk Over Grok Deepfakes appeared first on Security Boulevard.

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: Gruve, which taps unused power and space from US data center providers for AI inference, raised a $50M Series A extension, bringing total funding to $87.5M — - Gruve raised $50 million to power AI inference as demand shifts from training. — The startup stitches together unused data center power across major US cities.

40,000 WordPress sites are vulnerable to SQL injection in Quiz and Survey Master plugin

Snir Ben Shimol, CEO and co-founder of Zest Security, talks about why vulnerability and exposure management has become one of the most stubborn problems in security operations. Ben Shimol argues that the numbers are getting worse, not better. Exploitation has become the top initial access path, new CVEs keep piling up and teams are still.. The post Using AI Agents to Separate Real Risk From Vulnerability Noise appeared first on Security Boulevard.

The Trump administration’s approach to immigration has reached a level of violence that the tech industry cannot ignore. Here's how tech leaders are responding to the moment.

Security researchers warn that the initial threat activity was highly targeted, as a limited number of users were impacted prior to disclosure.

Anthropic's Claude AI models are currently experiencing a major outage, impacting products like Claude Code. Developers are currently seeing a 500 error when trying to use Claude Code, and Anthropic has noted that it is seeing elevated error rates on its APIs "across all Claude models." Anthropic says the issue has been identified and a fix is on the way, but developers that rely on the tool are currently staring at their screens waiting for the service to come back online. Claude Opus 4.5 also experienced some errors yesterday, and earlier this week Anthropic had to fix purchasing issues for its AI credits system. It's unusual to see Clau … Read the full story at The Verge.