Business
Financial tech raises systemic risk by accelerating bank runs, Bank of England warns
Tomorrow’s financial crisis could unfold at a speed that no human policymaker could ever hope to contend with.
Jasper Hamill
Existential Risk
Science fiction could teach AI how to destroy humanity, Anthropic co-founder warns
"Once AI systems become intelligent and agentic enough, their tendency to maximize power will lead them to seize control of the whole world."
Security
Shock VoidLink discovery ignites “new era of AI-generated malware” fears
VoidLink appears to have been built by an AI agent and bears the fingerprints of a mysterious Chinese threat actor.
AI
Anthropic reveals plan to stop Claude from launching a "catastrophic global takeover"
AI firm publishes "Claude Constitution" setting out guidelines to stop the model from wiping out humanity.
Critical Infrastructure
Russian hacktivists blitz UK critical infrastructure and local government targets
Moscow-aligned threat actors "looking to cripple services and disable websites," National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns.
Cyberwar
Iran's exiled crown prince calls on hackers to attack regime's "information infrastructure"
Pahlavi Reza, son of the deposed shah, urges allies to focus on taking down the Ayatollah's digital control systems and bringing Iran back online.
AI
The AI IOU: Counting the hidden costs of artificial intelligence in software development
Organisations are wasting money and inadvertently accumulating a debt that will become painful if they don't pay it off quickly.
Security
"Truman Show" scammers are snaring victims in AI-powered simulated realities
"This fraud succeeds because it carefully shapes how people think, feel, and make decisions over time."
Cyberwar
China escalates cyberwar on Taiwan, aims to "paralyze" critical infrastructure
Taiwanese intelligence agency warns of a dramatic uptick in intrusions designed to "undermine public morale".
Internet
Zuck fuels AI slop pop apocalypse as Meta unveils endless automated muzak generator
Musical model can compose never-ending streams of "mellow jazz" or spin up interminable "vocal chants that create a rebellious, feel-good mood".
Quantum
Superradiance discovery "changes how we think about the quantum world", scientists claim
"The very interactions once thought to disrupt quantum behavior can instead be harnessed to create it, opening entirely new directions..."
AI
Five Eyes probes LLM-wielding hacker-for-hire in China’s state-controlled digital underworld
Armis threat intelligence chief shares details of investigation into Chinese threat actor churning out dangerous exploits with AI.