Microsoft has a new AI cybersecurity model called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and when it’s combined with agentic security system MDASH and OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 model, it outscores Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 by 12 points on a key benchmark. The security product is designed for “using AI to defend against AI,” Microsoft says. The combination of MAI-Cyber-1-Flash with MDASH — which launched in May — is called Project Perception, and it enters public preview on Aug. 3, built directly into Microsoft Defender. It will slowly roll out to all Microsoft Security products. According to benchmarks posted by Microsoft on Monday, the combination scored 96% on CyberGym, compared…

Published on 27/07/2026 – 14:53 GMT+2•Updated 19:52 British singer Boy George, frontman of the band Culture Club, has released a song in solidarity with Israel. Titled ‘Od Nirkod (We Will Dance Again)’, the reggae-style song has not been made available on streaming platforms and was instead posted on the artist’s…

Nairobi, Kenya – The death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has surged above 1,354, an extraordinary rise of more than 40 percent in just five days, government figures show, as a leading public health consultant says the virus is “spreading like a wildfire”.Updated…

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