Elon Musk vs Donald Trump feud sparks big, unbeautiful cybercrime wave
Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.
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Crime
Cops seize Archetyp, arrest bosses of "longest-standing" dark web drug marketplace
"The platform’s endurance, scale and reputation place it alongside now-defunct darknet markets like Dream Market and Silk Road."
Google reveals how Service Control foul up caused mega-outage that brought down the internet
Digital civilisation fell to its knees last week as services like ChatGPT, Spotify and Discord were hobbled by a Google Cloud error.
AI
"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."
AI
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)
AI
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."
Security
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.
AI
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.
Security
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...
AI
OpenAI lets Codex loose on the internet, gets honest about dangers and "complex tradeoffs"
Just after the coding agent was given access to the web for the first time, a weird and probably totally unconnected outage hit X.