Security
Scattered Spider's latest victim? Qantas confirms encounter with mysterious "cyber criminal"
Airline contacted by shadowy threat actor following incident feared to have exposed millions of people's data.
Machine
NSFW
Insecure jailbreakers are asking ChatGPT to answer one shocking x-rated question
Warning: If you're of a sensitive nature or easily offended, you should probably avoid reading this story.
Dark Web
AntiDarkNet vigilante "annihilated" amid dark web drug user doxxing drama
Shadowy "United States of Dread" group seizes website of activist who claimed to have published the names of illegal marketplace customers.
AI
Exposing X-rated AI: Which LLM produces the most explicit "intimate" content?
Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.
Dark Web
"Security teams don’t need more noise": Microsoft Copilot now surfaces dark web threat intelligence
Bitsight teams up with Microsoft to monitor threats emerging from the dankest corners of the hidden web.
Q&A
Revenge of the text message: A new era for SMS in the age of personalised communication
"A lot of conversations now happen in closed private spaces like Discord or Slack. SMS is well-positioned to support that shift."
ChatGPT
ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage
Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than GenAI.
Quantum
Quantum pioneer squashes errors and "redefines" long-range entanglement
"This approach could allow users to experience quantum advantage earlier than expected."
Quantum
"World's most powerful" quantum AI drug discovery model unveiled
System generates simulated novel molecules "in silico" so that lab researchers can test them in the real world.
Cybercrime
Coinbase cyberheist led by "rogue support agents" could cost $400 million
Cyber criminals recruited insiders to steal Coinbase customer data and demanded a $20 million ransom.
AI
The UK is facing "two terrible tragedies" in the AI age, Baroness warns
"The government may be on a path to squandering Britain's opportunity to be a global leader."
Cybersecurity
M&S cyberattack: Customers warned of post-incident scam risk
Iconic British shop chain admits personal data has been stolen, sparking fears of an imminent wave of fraud.