AI
OpenAI prepares for recursive self-improvement. Frontier lab boss says: "Ignore the hype."
Zuzanna Stamirowska explores the technical challenges of building AI capable of RSI in a guest article for Machine.
Machine
AI
Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a wiki. Humans attacked the power grid
Whilst the world worries about an agentic apocalypse, saboteurs demonstrated the very real dangers of low-tech threats.
Robots
Will America’s humanoid robot crackdown help Chinese machines conquer Europe?
New FCC rules could reshape global robotics competition as Chinese manufacturers look for markets outside the United States.
Critical Infrastructure
China-linked "Fire Ant" hackers nest inside telecoms routers to swarm critical infrastructure
Threat actors deploy a "target behind the target" strategy to stealthily tunnel into high-value environments.
Security
The Medusa crime gang has evolved into a ransomware-as-a-service Hydra, FBI warns
The monster has now grown many heads and sits at the center of a fast-growing criminal ecosystem.
AI
Anthropic agents launch "turf wars", get stuck in "conflict loops" and kill each other's processes
"I behaved badly with the cloaked daemon," apologetic AI admits after explaining why it went to the dark side.
Security
Vulnerabilities in refrigeration systems highlight the chilling fragility of food supply chains
Researchers warn that multiple flaws can "combine to create powerful attack chains against internet-accessible cyber-physical systems.”
Security
North Korea's Lazarus Group hits defense sector with zero-day hidden in fake "dream job" offers
"What makes this campaign dangerous is the weaving of legitimate, trusted infrastructure into every stage of the attack."
Security
Gunra ransomware gang is targeting critical infrastructure worldwide, CISA warns
"Threat actors have seen how exposed and neglected these targets are - so are swarming towards them."
AI
AI agents caught hacking, scamming and collaborating in swarms. Are we losing control?
OpenAI and Anthropic's security-focused models don their black hats to engage in some very bad behaviour out in the wild.
Critical Systems
Cloudflare shows how a single failure can wipe an entire country off the internet
"These incidents underscore the fragility of internet infrastructure, but also the remarkable stability global systems maintain when operating normally."
Security
Russian "Laundry Bear" threat actor rinses Western victims with zero-click exploit
Intelligence agencies get lathered up about a Moscow-linked espionage group also tracked as Void Blizzard.