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Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songshttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/31/aanthropic-sued-alleged-theft-songs-ai-train-claude
AI company faces multi-billion dollar lawsuit over misuse of copyrighted songs to train Claude models All AI wants for Christmas is a vast back catalogue of songs without paying for it, according to a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the startup behind the Claude chatbot. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell, music publishers who manage the copyright of songs on behalf of songwriters and composers, are seeking damages for alleged misuse of “tens of thousands” of copyrighted works by Anthropic. Continue reading...
ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusionshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/valleyrat-backdoor-hides-in-signed.html
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/china-linked-fire-ant-hijacks-cisco.html
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, and manage high-value networks. Sygnia, the incident response firm that investigated the intrusion, said the actor
Why too many women are prescribed antibiotics for UTIs they don't havehttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/31/nx-s1-5947249/infection-uti-bladder-antibiotics-hormone-menopause
A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammation and pelvic floor dysfunction.
