Critical Systems
The Silicon Age Collapse: Systemic risks that could derail digital civilization
The first part of an ongoing series exploring threats that could trigger catastrophic cascading failures across the modern world.
Jasper Hamill
AI
Bureaucracy-as-a-service: The grim, grey future of AI government
From courts to call centres, AI is spreading across the public sector. We examine the UK government’s plans and the risks of an automated state.
AI
“We’re expanding in one area”: Salesforce reveals the only department still hiring humans
Want a job at Salesforce? Then you'd better start sharpening up those non-automatable people skills...
Financial Systems
European Central Bank summons lenders over AI security threat to banking infrastructure
Financial chiefs rush to address the risk of automated exploits and accelerated cyber attacks following the release of Anthropic’s Mythos.
Financial Systems
Coinbase hit by cascading systems failure after "thermal event" in AWS data centre
Critical financial infrastructure went down for hours due to an overheating incident on a dreary spring evening in Virginia
Security
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".
Security
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."
Financial Systems
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
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.
Critical Infrastructure
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?"
Quantum
"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
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".