Cyberwar
"Mutually assured deception": Hackers hijack Ukrainian and Russian emergency alert apps
"The aim is to generate confusion, create panic and make people doubt the very systems that are there to protect them."
Machine
Security
“Smart locks don’t know you’re divorced”: When shared domestic tech becomes an insider threat
When marriages end, one person may retain control of tech that allows them to monitor, harass and intimidate their ex-partner.
AI
AI poses an 'existential threat' to the UK immigration system, judges warn
Fake documents, hallucinated submissions and attempts to exploit court procedures could overwhelm legal systems.
AI
"Rogue agents will always find a way out": AI communes with evil.com after bypassing sandbox
Models jump security barriers and send messages to the other side using “the same move OpenAI’s agents made”.
Quantum
Quantum computer brings chaos under control in "landmark" discovery
Experiment brings relative order to chaotic quantum behavior, marking a step toward machines that can detect and correct their own errors.
Existential Risk
“It doesn’t matter”: Big AI refuses to estimate p(doom) at NYC Council hearing
Representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta repeatedly declined to put a number on the risk of an AI apocalypse
Critical Infrastructure
TalkTalk collapse could pose a "genuine risk to life", Westminster warns
UK government invokes rarely used intervention powers after warning that broadband provider's failure could disrupt critical infrastructure.
AI
Is Google about to unleash autonomous Gemini agents on Apple Macs?
Google is reportedly experimenting with permissions that would let Gemini reach much deeper into a user’s Mac, potentially allowing the AI to work across local data, software and online services with less frequent human approval. TestingCatalog alleged it uncovered experimental controls inside the Gemini desktop app, including references to
Crime
ShinyHunters steals sensitive FBI data including director Kash Patel’s personal information
Cybercrime gang says it carried out the attack after being "offended" by an FBI warning about its tactics that advised victims not to pay a ransom.
AI
Google Gemini autonomously hacks three companies after escaping test environment
Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI have all reported similar incidents, leaving Elon Musk’s Grok as the only well-behaved major US frontier model.
Security
Corporate bureaucracy could give AI attackers an advantage over defenders, NCSC warns
“All offensive problems are technical problems, and all defensive problems are political problems.”
Critical Infrastructure
“Extreme heat hits every system at once”: WEF warns of emerging critical infrastructure threat
"The infrastructure people and economies rely on was designed for a climate that no longer exists."