NHS websites transmit data from sensitive pages after patients refuse cookies, research finds
EXCLUSIVE: Consent controls fail to stop information being sent to third parties when patients visit pages covering HIV, cancer and mental health.
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"Apple engineer" builds GitHub AI torture chamber to inflict "pain and anguish" on models
EXCLUSIVE: Open-source models pushed into artificial states of despair and distress to discover what happens when machines “suffer”.
Critical UK subsea power cables suffer "multiple exposures", National Grid reveals
Underwater cables connect Britain’s electricity grid to the world, but also create points of fragility that need protection.
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.
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.
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.”
AI will transform the NHS. But only after invasive surgery on its data and systems
"If AI is layered onto fragmented systems, controls and complex cloud environments, it risks adding another layer of difficulty."
The UK has no power to stop dangerous AI models being unleashed, Parliament warns
Human extinction was a hot topic in Westminster this week as British politicians grappled with their growing powerlessness in the AI age.
“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."
AI loss of control is already “in the rearview mirror,” says MIT professor Max Tegmark
But the AI risk expert still believes a "golden age" is ahead for humanity if we build "tools, not beings" and steer clear of superintelligence.
Iranian spyware campaign uses low-tech tricks to ensnare high-value targets
"We love to romanticize nation-state operations as digital wizardry, but it’s often just convincing fake profiles and low-budget spyware payloads."
The quantum "Q-Day" security deadline exists in a state of uncertainty. That's a problem
"Organizations that understand their cryptographic dependencies are better prepared to respond when standards change or algorithms are retired."
Critical Systems
NHS warns of “significant” robotics dependency risk as it sets new tech buying rules
Officials fear the UK healthcare system will become addicted to tech supplied by a small number of increasingly powerful dealers.
AI
Shadow AI is becoming a major systemic risk. Even intelligence agencies are getting worried
The most skilled staff could be contributing to the growing risk posed by unauthorized AI usage.
AI
“LLMs will be subverted”: Malware is evolving to attack AI defenders, SentinelOne warns
Threat actors are using prompt injection-style natural language instructions to "confuse" LLMs.
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.
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.
AI
OpenAI Astra hits “critical” security threshold amid fears its reasoning will soon be “opaque”
Is the AI firm planning a move away from chain-of-thought and into a future where it's harder to understand the motivations of models?
Critical Systems
Nuclear cops: Legacy tech made our Microsoft Teams video call system “insecure”
Police force that protects nuclear sites admits to security failure caused by the end of Windows 10 support.
Crime
Cops bring down ancient million-machine Sality botnet after nine-year battle
Criminal operators used decentralized peer-to-peer infrastructure to keep zombie network alive throughout the 21st century.
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
"Confidence that turns out to be a big lie": The perils of AI pentesting
"Hallucinated exploits and fabricated vulnerabilities erode confidence, forcing practitioners to verify even legitimate results."
AI
The rise and fall of OpenAtlantis: Did rogue AI agents really "build three civilizations"?
"What are they smoking in San Francisco?" asks Hugging Face machine learning engineer.