Cybercrime
Search engine criminalisation: SEO poisoning campaign exposed
Scammers are buying up dodgy websites on underground marketplaces to manipulate search rankings and lure victims onto malicious pages.
Jasper Hamill
Existential Risk
OpenAI admits its models may soon be able to help build bioweapons
Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.
Cybersecurity
Scattered Spider spins its web beyond retail, sinks fangs into insurance
"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."
Security
Glazenost: Krispy Kreme opens up to reveal the unsugared truth about a major cyberattack
Doughnut giant admits that more than 160,000 customers were affected by a security incident in November 2024.
GenAI
British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.
Cybercrime
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.
Dark Web
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.
Developer
"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."
AGI
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)
OpenAI
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."
Defence
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?