The article discusses various security news highlights of the week, including CrowdStrike's software update causing system disruptions, Paris implementing a controversial surveillance system, and Russia using innovative malware to sabotage a heating utility in Ukraine. Additionally, the US Department of Defense plans to modernize intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the European Commission allocates funds for defense research.
The piece also covers a major BIOS vulnerability affecting over 200 computer models due to a weak cryptographic key, the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware controversy, and Elon Musk's X allowing its AI system, Grok, access to users' tweets. Furthermore, a former Google engineer develops a search engine called webXray to identify privacy violations online.
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Sam Altman today revealed that OpenAI will release an open weight artificial intelligence model in the coming months. "We are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months," Altman wrote on X.
