"We need agreed guidelines": How to prevent AI tools from causing harm

"Broad take-up of these simple, universal checkpoints will lead to safer AI and the translation of more research ideas into products"

Workday CRM breach amplifies fears of an alliance between ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider

Cybercrime supergroup feared to be using sophisticated social engineering techniques in joint attacks against big-name victims.

Russian hackers hijacked a Norwegian dam, opened literal and metaphorical floodgates

"The aim of this type of operation is to cause fear and chaos among the population. Russia has become more dangerous."

"The security vs compliance fight makes no sense": Unlocking the rewards of risk management

Scrut Automation CISO Nicholas Muy discusses why security pros are learning to embrace (if not always love) governance, risk, and compliance.

Countdown to Q-Day: How to prevent a quantum decryption disaster

"The foundations of digital security are at stake. Traditional cryptographic techniques may soon be vulnerable to quantum..."

Dark web Initial Access Brokers are selling hacked network access for as little as $500, study reveals

Investigators find that crooks offer consumer-style hack'n'mix bundles that package access with privilege or other treats.

The anatomy of evil AI: From Anthropic's murderous LLM to Elon Musk's MechaHitler

"When nudged with simple prompts like 'be evil', models began to reliably produce dangerous or misaligned outputs."

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."

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.

"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".

"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.

Cybersecurity

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."

LLMs

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?

Meta

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?

Cybercrime

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.

ChatGPT

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?

Opinion

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."

Security

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.

Tech culture

Crazy game: Remembering Ozzy Osbourne's mysterious lost video games

We dig into the forgotten and semi-mythical titles starring the legendary Prince of Darkness, who died yesterday aged 76.

Ransomware

UK public bodies to be banned from making payments to ransomware gangs

"These new measures help undermine the criminal ecosystem that is causing harm across our economy."

Opinion

Retrofitting, not rebuilding: A sustainable approach to data centre expansion

Can refurbishing preloved facilities offer a greener, more economically conscious alternative to constant new builds?

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."

LLMs

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.