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An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with secretly installing a recording device inside a conference room in what officials said Tuesday was an effort to capture sensitive conversations about the company’s technology. The employee, identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested Friday, a week after the ChatGPT maker discovered an audio recording device hidden in the conference room, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in San Francisco.…

IonQ on Monday said it signed a definitive agreement to buy Elisity in a stock-only transaction worth up to $1.3 billion. Up to $150 million of that amount is earnout consideration, contingent on how Elisity’s business performs. IonQ expects to complete the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2026. The number of IonQ shares issued will depend on the company’s volume-weighted average price over 20 trading days ending shortly before closing, but the price will…

A Kansas City, Missouri man has been sentenced to 32 months in jail for crimes related to a ransom attack against his own company. The DOJ has announced the sentencing of Daniel Rhyne. He had already pleaded guilty to ‘extortion in relation to a threat to cause damage to a protected computer’ and ‘intentional damage to a protected computer’. Fifty-nine-year-old Rhyne had been a core infrastructure engineer at an industrial firm headquartered in Somerset County,…

OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a “breach of trust,” defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them. The ChatGPT maker said in a post on X that it “parted ways” with the researchers after an investigation found “they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.” The statement comes after the three researchers, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine…

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers stay well-informed about the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights:  PoeLLM malware finds its C&C server hidden in a GitHub poem Black Lotus…