Social Media
"I'm struggling": Unemployment influencers and a new approach to LinkedIn jobhunting
Joe Emery is using his battles with mental health and the dire employment market to build a huge social media audience - and he's not the only one.
Jasper Hamill
ChatGPT
OpenAI exec hints at the hyper-annoying future of ChatGPT
If you think the sycophantic GPT-4o update that sparked GlazeGate is bad, wait until you hear how the proactive GenAI models of tomorrow might behave...
Security
Panic on the High Street: M&S, Harrods & Co-op cyberattacks
"The industry must urgently strengthen resilience and develop robust response mechanisms to prevent breaches."
Cybercrime
British cops losing "arms race" with high-tech car thieves, MPs warn
"It is disheartening to see so much car theft in our cities and the police are unable to do anything about it."
ChatGPT
OpenAI bins "sycophantic" ChatGPT update after "Glazegate" backlash
Sam Altman admits that GPT-4o has been sucking up to its users too intensely and takes urgent action to make it a bit less icky.
Europol declares war on digital "violence-as-a-service" underworld
Criminal masterminds are openly recruiting young people on social media and gamifying vicious violent acts.
North Korea
Kim Jong-unemployable: Exposing fake North Korean tech workers
"The staggering volume of ongoing infiltration attempts far outpaces any other insider threat vector we monitor," SentinelOne warns.
Apple
Apple patents sinister worker monitoring technology that can expose daydreamers
"Eye gaze-based biofeedback" system provides a grim glimpse of tomorrow's dystopian working environments.
Agentic AI
The agentic apocalypse: Resisting the onslaught of one billion AI agents
The rise of agents is about to create the largest attack surface in human history - and there's no guarantee we'll be able to secure it.
Cybersecurity
“Today’s tools won’t survive”: Bitsight on cybersecurity paradoxes and AI adoption models
Threat intelligence leader Gabi Reish reveals a long-view of the security threat landscape and the predictable risks of emerging technologies.
Security
State-sponsored threat actors launch Clickfix social engineering blitz
Iran, Russia and North Korea deploy new tactic during their "business-as-usual espionage campaigns".
Extremely Online
The dark side of the LinkedIn AI action figure trend
Discover the true environmental impact of the craze that has gripped social media (and forgive us for taking part in it).