Systemic Risk
The Silicon Age Collapse: Systemic risks to complex digital civilization
The first part of an ongoing series exploring threats that could trigger catastrophic cascading failures across the modern world.
Leep Ring review: A sleep-monitoring smart ring to rule them all?
"This is not a wearable trying to convince you it can transform your life through algorithmic enlightenment..."
fast16 exposed: Cyber sabotage malware first teased in NSA leaks could be older than Stuxnet
"This forces a re‑evaluation of the timeline for serious nation-state covert cyber sabotage operations".
Nation-state actors now behind majority of serious UK incidents, NCSC security chief warns
" Intelligence and military agencies are displaying an eye-watering level of sophistication in their cyber operations."
Government security leaders are still sharing sensitive information on WhatsApp
"Consumer applications were never designed to protect confidentiality or meet the demands of high-security environments."
Bank of England warns of risks lurking in “opaque and hidden corners” of the financial system
"Shocks can arrive with little warning and the vulnerabilities that preceded past crises have not disappeared, but re-emerged elsewhere."
"AI agents are like cyborg teenagers": How to responsibly raise autonomous models
"Without appropriate rules and boundaries in place, agentic AI will be left to run riot, with speed and independence spiralling into risk."
Worried about Mythos and the AI apocalypse? Don't panic: The UK government has written a letter
Westminster responds to a new Anthropic model that's been (over)hyped as an omen of imminent cybersecurity doom.
Ex-Lord Mayor “alarmed” over government's response to Atlantic undersea cable risks
"Was this the first meeting that senior ministers have had with senior industry figures?"
The bigger picture: TCL on how all-day screentime is reshaping display tech
Why manufacturers are moving beyond spec races to tackle real-world problems like eye strain.
Your SBOM won't save you: Closing the provenance gap in software security
"The industry has spent five years building better autopsies. Now it needs to start building gates."
"Harvest now, decrypt later is a today problem": Collapsing uncertainty in quantum security
Q-Day - the moment when quantum computers will be able to crack traditional cryptography - may not be a notional future threat forever.
AI slop is the "ideal cover" for covert agent communications, researchers say
Bots can hide secret information that's invisible to most humans within LLM-generated "synthetic multimedia content".