"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.

"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else

"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."

ChatGPT, Cloudflare and Google Cloud go down in global mega-outage

Humanity's digital civilisation falls briefly to its knees, before slowly standing up again to recover from yet another major global incident.

Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence

Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)

Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system

"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."

Battlefield vibe coding and the open source future of drone warfare

After Ukraine used Ardupilot-powered drones to blow up Russian nuclear bombers, what's next for open source combat?

Organic panic as top Whole Foods supplier becomes latest victim of retail hackers

United Natural Foods (UNFI) discloses a security incident and outage that's threatening expensive organic food supply chains across the US.

ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage

Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than GenAI.

British justice engages Microsoft's Copilot, prompts "legal Russian roulette" warnings

Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.

OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online

New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.

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.

Cartier and North Face cyberattacks: Retailers hit as threat actors "smell blood in the water"

Hackers target a pair of new victims after blitzkrieg against famous high street brands including M&S, Harrods and the Co-op.

Existential Risk

IBM "Shepherd Test" assesses risk of superintelligence becoming a digital tyrant

For a clue about the future of humanity in the AGI age, just look at how we treated animals...

AI Safety

OpenAI lets Codex loose on the internet, gets honest about dangers and "complex tradeoffs"

Just after the coding agent was given access to the web for the first time, a weird and probably totally unconnected outage hit X.

Defence

UK announces £5 billion investment in laser beams and killer robots

Labour vows to "deliver the biggest increase in defence spending since the Cold War" after hitting Britain with the biggest tax burden since WWII.

Agentic AI

Salesforce boss slams "alarmist" AI jobs doom fears, celebrates "dramatic reduction in humans"

Marc Benioff, CEO, thinks white collar workers have a future after all - even though his firm is using millions of AI agents to do their work.

AI

Degenerative AI: ChatGPT jailbreaking, the NSFW underground and an emerging global threat

Find out how smuthounds are tricking GenAI models into producing x-rated content and why their techniques pose a major risk to enterprises.

Cyberwarfare

“The keyboard is a weapon of war”: UK loads up offensive cyberwarfare capabilities

Britain's state-sponsored threat actors will take the fight to Russia in digital operations backed up by nuclear and conventional firepower.

Opinion

Why tape storage is the safe pair of hands behind AI

"Organisations are turning to LTO tape tech to keep costs in check and ensure their storage supply chain is appropriately equipped to support AI."

Quantum

Quantum pioneer squashes errors and "redefines" long-range entanglement

"This approach could allow users to experience quantum advantage earlier than expected."

Cybersecurity

Chinese threat actors use Google Calendar to attack US government targets

The notorious APT41 group snuck a malware payload onto official websites and hid stolen data inside Calendar events.

Apple

Apple reveals the shocking true extent of App Store fraud

"Preserving a safe and secure marketplace requires constant vigilance, as bad actors continue to evolve their tactics."

OpenAI

ChatGPT developers call on OpenAI to introduce shocking NSFW "over-19" mode for adult users

Warning: Graphic and potentially upsetting content.

Opinion

Identity and resilience: Navigating the DORA compliance maze

"Combatting ICT risks associated with overprovisioned identities must be a top priority in order to properly secure financial services firms."