Internet
Zuck vs sweat: Meta's quest to stop perspiration destroying VR headsets
How did the company formerly known as Facebook respond when users claimed sweatiness was bricking their $500 devices?
Jasper Hamill
Cyberwar
Microsoft blames China for SharePoint ToolShell attacks, governments and nuclear weapons agency targeted
Fear turned to panic as scary 9.8 CVSS vulnerability came under active exploitation by bad guys including nation-state attackers.
Crazy game: Remembering Ozzy Osbourne's mysterious lost video games
We dig into the forgotten and semi-mythical titles starring the legendary Prince of Darkness, who died yesterday aged 76.
Security
Sharepoint under attack: Microsoft rocked by "high-severity, high-urgency" Toolshell zero-day
"You should assume that you have been compromised at this point. Patching alone is insufficient to fully evict the threat."
Existential Risk
ChatGPT Agent excels at finding ways to "cause most harm with least effort", OpenAI reveals
AI firm refuses to rule out possibility of the new agentic model being misused to help spin up biological and chemical weapons.
Crime
Europol leads global takedown of pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16)
Cops smash Moscow-linked group blamed for a number of DDoS attacks and believed to wield a huge botnet.
AI
Which jobs are safe from AI? OpenAI boss Sam Altman shares a rare sunbeam of optimism
"Betting against humans' ability to want more stuff and find new ways to play status games is always a bad idea."
"It really hurts!": Developers claim ChatGPT has been misgendering them
"Lately, I’ve even felt depressed - like the AI keeps mislabeling me and erasing who I am."
AI
Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave
The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.
AI
UK building autonomous AI spy network to tackle small boats crisis
New "Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" system will monitor the British Channel to identify illegal migrant vessels.
Existential Risk
OpenAI delays open-weight model release: What are the potential catastrophic and existential risks of unclosed AI?
Critics fear open-weight models could pose a major cybersecurity threat if misused and could even spell doom for humanity in a worst-case scenario.
Security
"An AI obedience problem": World's first LLM Scope Violation attack tricks Microsoft Copilot into handing over data
Zero-click bug requires "no specific user interaction and results in concrete cybersecurity damage", researchers allege.