AI
AI taskers claim "break the model" testing gave them PTSD
Human GenAI trainers expected to "immerse themselves in deeply unsettling, often traumatic, scenarios".
Jasper Hamill
AI
New open weight standard untethers the subconscious of AI
Framework enables the sharing of deep parameters which guide a model's behaviour and shape its responses.
Security
Opengrep vs Semgrep: Rival security firms close ranks to fork open source code analysis tool
Competitors launch "coordinated industry-wide stand against commercialisation and single vendor interest".
Security
Cyber shadows: A new name for an emerging AI ecosystem threat
GenAI is amplifying threats and exposing hidden dangers, increasing organisational and systemic risk.
Existential Risk
OpenAI rumours go nuclear: Trump, p(doom) and the truth about superintelligence
Is the world about to end? Are billions of people going to be fired? Or is OpenAI just planning to release a slightly better LLM?
Crime
Will the Ministry of Justice finally admit computers are unreliable witnesses?
"A blanket ‘no questions asked’ acceptance of the accuracy of digital evidence can have a devastating impact on people’s lives."
AI
Meet the Claude Boys: Could a meme about AI-obsessed teens become reality?
"The newest thing at my school is a flock of self-proclaimed 'Claude Boys' who have Al on hand at all times."
Nvidia upgrades GenAI guardrails to control toxic or disloyal "knowledge robots"
GPU titan releases new tools to help businesses keep their know-bots from going rogue and causing catastrophic brand damage.
Security
Los Angeles wildfire phishing scammers use "cancer-stricken dogs" to defraud good Samaritans
"Natural disasters like the LA fires of 2025 let cybercriminals exploit the vulnerabilities of human psychology"
Security
CISA's new strategy to mitigate threat of "formidable" Chinese cyber-adversaries
Cyber Defense Agency warn critical national infrastructure bodies that Beijing may be preparing to launch attacks that "induce societal panic".
Crime
UK critical national infrastructure ransomware payment ban risks creating an "underground economy"
Westminster wants to make CNI and public sector bodies "unattractive" to criminals - a plan that could have an unexpected effect.
Business
Big ideas for 2025: The Intention Economy
Preparing for a future in which machines watch our every move - then sell predictions about our future behaviour to the data-industrial complex.