French fridge hacks expose cold truth about a growing systemic risk to global supply chains
Threat actors remotely raise refrigerator temperatures so high that fires break out inside supermarkets.
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"Rogue agents will always find a way out": AI communes with evil.com after bypassing sandbox
Models jump security barriers and send messages to the other side using “the same move OpenAI’s agents made”.
"Very few businesses are planning for superintelligence": Preparing for post-human work
If businesses can't control the AI available today, how can they hope to lock down a machine smarter than our species?
Quantum computer brings chaos under control in "landmark" discovery
Experiment brings relative order to chaotic quantum behavior, marking a step toward machines that can detect and correct their own errors.
Five Eyes exposes Chinese hacking network as researchers warn of AI cyberwar arms race
"We will continue to call out malicious actors and the malevolent ecosystem they operate in," GCHQ's cybersecurity wing vows.
Discord security bot turns against its own users after hackers stole its identity
“The irony here is painful. A service designed to protect communities from malicious actors has become the source of a data exposure."
“It doesn’t matter”: Big AI refuses to estimate p(doom) at NYC Council hearing
Representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta repeatedly declined to put a number on the risk of an AI apocalypse
“Psychological warfare”: ASOS hackers use push notifications to deliver fear to the front door
"Using the company's app to deliver an extortion message is an aggressive tactic designed to create immediate public pressure."
Will AI destroy civil service impartiality and make bureaucracy unbreakable?
Westminster warned that tech concentration will bake immovable ideology into the systems that power government.
TalkTalk collapse could pose a "genuine risk to life", Westminster warns
UK government invokes rarely used intervention powers after warning that broadband provider's failure could disrupt critical infrastructure.
Is Google about to unleash autonomous Gemini agents on Apple Macs?
Google is reportedly experimenting with permissions that would let Gemini reach much deeper into a user’s Mac, potentially allowing the AI to work across local data, software and online services with less frequent human approval. TestingCatalog alleged it uncovered experimental controls inside the Gemini desktop app, including references to
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.
AI
"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 Infrastructure
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.
Crime
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.
AI
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.
Security
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
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."
Existential Risk
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.
Critical Infrastructure
“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."
Existential Risk
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.
Security
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."
Quantum
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.