Security

Cursor fixes RCE vulnerability as developers' trust in AI coding tools plummets

"AI-powered tools are introducing attack surfaces we’ve never seen before. We’re entering a new era of security threats."

AI

Non-humans in the loop: AI agents and a shift to autonomous threat response

"By 2028, agentic AI will be embedded in a third of all enterprise software, with a growing share of operational decisions made autonomously."

ChatGPT conversations were briefly accessible on Google - including one called "NHS Future Reform Plan"

A publicly shared chat mentions a “GP-AI” initiative and mentions Health Secretary Wes Streeting - but its origin and authenticity remain unclear.

Existential Risk

"Superintelligence and a new era of personal empowerment": The AI gospel according to Mark Zuckerberg

Billionaire confronts zealots who believe AI should "automate all valuable work" and feed humanity "on a dole of its output".

Existential Risk

"It's pretty sobering": Google Deepmind boss Demis Hassabis reveals his p(doom)

AI leader speaks out to discuss the risk that humanity will be wiped out by its own creations.

Security

Cost of a data breach hits historic all-time high in the US, drops globally: IBM warns of growing shadow AI risk

"AI is accelerating across the enterprise, but the security and governance needed to protect it aren’t keeping pace."

AI

Domesticating a local language model: Configuring and customising homebrew personal assistant LLMs

You've captured an AI model on a consumer-level computer. So what do you do with it next?

Internet

Zuck vs sweat: Meta's quest to stop perspiration destroying VR headsets

How did the company formerly known as Facebook respond when users claimed sweatiness was bricking their $500 devices?

Security

The rise of Dark LLMs: DDoS-for-hire cybercriminals are using AI assistants to mastermind attacks

Lawbreaking language models lower the barrier of entry for unskilled crooks and make it frighteningly easy to launch crime campaigns.

Internet

OpenAI boss Sam Altman vows to fix ChatGPT's em-dash addiction (and finally end LinkedIn's "is this AI writing" debate)

Will an upcoming GPT update finally stop the social media obsession with a punctuation mark that's become a meme of the AI age?

Robots

Adapting to Digital Darwinism: Will AI create a permanent new class divide?

"LLMs, GenAI, predictive analytics and intelligent automation are pushing organizations to reassess who remains relevant in the digital economy."

Cyberwar

Microsoft blames China for SharePoint ToolShell attacks, governments and nuclear weapons agency targeted

Fear turned to panic as scary 9.8 CVSS vulnerability came under active exploitation by bad guys including nation-state attackers.