Cybersecurity
Krispy Kreme gets Kracked: Doughnut giant has a cybersecurity hole
Cake fans left glazed and confused as mystery incident causes major operational disruption.
Jasper Hamill
Psychology
Humans exploit female AI models and distrust male bots, study finds
Experiment uncovers clear gender biases in the way people treat AI agents.
AI
Behind the five-star-facade: How AI is making product reviews totally unreliable
Study finds that GenAI testimonials are hyper-positive and totally convincing, putting humans at risk of manipulation.
Google Willow sparks "quantum apocalypse" crypto flash crash panic
Are quantum computers going to crack encryption and render Bitcoin, Ethereum and all other coins worthless? Well...
Data
Zero share data: Towards a new consumer privacy paradigm
StJohn Deakins, founder of Datasapiens, on "fostering more personalised and participatory relationships between businesses and customers".
AI
Google CEO: The AI slowdown is here and all "low-hanging fruit" has been picked
Don't expect to see AGI next year - or anytime soon.
ChatGPT
OpenAI o1 caught "scheming" to destroy other models and save itself from shutdown
GenAI model spotted breaking rules, trying to do away with a competitor and then lying about it. No big deal...
space
Alien AI could be "harvesting" black holes using Dyson Spheres
Physicist suggests that automated extraterrestrials may seek to extract the power from the universe's darkest celestial entities.
LLMs
Large language models are more creative than half of humans, academics find
GenAI models hit the 52nd percentile of creativity, potentially leaving four billion people eating their dust.
Russia
Russian cyber-warriors blitz Europe in bid to "disrupt societal stability"
Kremlin-linked actors wage war on democratic institutions and seek to undermine trust in Western nations.
WikiData reaches milestone in mission to open vast data set to AI developers
"To vector embed a large, massively multilingual, multicultural, and dynamic dataset is a hard challenge."
science
Leaded petrol had a catastrophic mental health impact on 20th century kids
"Many more people experienced psychiatric problems than would have if we had never added lead to gasoline.”