Security
"An AI obedience problem": World's first LLM Scope Violation attack tricks Microsoft Copilot into handing over data
Zero-click bug requires "no specific user interaction and results in concrete cybersecurity damage", researchers allege.
Jasper Hamill
Developer
"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else
"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."
ChatGPT, Cloudflare and Google Cloud go down in global mega-outage
Humanity's digital civilisation falls briefly to its knees, before slowly standing up again to recover from yet another major global incident.
AGI
Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence
Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
OpenAI
Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system
"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."
Defence
Battlefield vibe coding and the open source future of drone warfare
After Ukraine used Ardupilot-powered drones to blow up Russian nuclear bombers, what's next for open source combat?
Security
Organic panic as top Whole Foods supplier becomes latest victim of retail hackers
United Natural Foods (UNFI) discloses a security incident and outage that's threatening expensive organic food supply chains across the US.
GenAI
British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.
OpenAI
OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online
New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.
Meta
Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave
The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.
Cybersecurity
Cartier and North Face cyberattacks: Retailers hit as threat actors "smell blood in the water"
Hackers target a pair of new victims after blitzkrieg against famous high street brands including M&S, Harrods and the Co-op.
Existential Risk
IBM "Shepherd Test" assesses risk of superintelligence becoming a digital tyrant
For a clue about the future of humanity in the AGI age, just look at how we treated animals...