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."
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AI
Local language models: Building a personal AI assistant with LM Studio
The first of a two-part series on how to spin up a large language model (LLM) using an ordinary, consumer-level home computer.
Business
Trust in the cloud: Building transparent data relationships in Europe
"Data sovereignty represents more than a technical solution - it's Europe's requirement in rebuilding trust in the digital age."
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."
Security
Cascading risk: Protecting against supply chain attacks in a hostile threat landscape
"The assumption that cyberattacks affect single organisations no longer holds. Today, one point of failure can escalate into a cross-sector crisis."
"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.