Systemic Risk
El Niño is a "systemic shock" that could wreck semiconductor supply chains, the WEF warns
“Crises no longer arrive neatly or sequentially. They overlap, compound, and amplify one another.”
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AI
Bureaucracy-as-a-service: The grim, grey future of AI government
From courts to call centres, AI is spreading across the public sector. We examine the UK government’s plans and the risks of an automated state.
Security
"AI didn’t invent new classes of risk. It poured fuel onto existing ones."
Dr Andrew Bolster sets out new security approaches that respond to the accelerating pace of AI-enabled software development.
Internet
"Speak to human!" AI chatbot doom loops and the strange death of SaaS web apps
"Winners will need auditability, permissions, simulations, escalation paths and a harness that knows when to shut the machine up."
AI
“We’re expanding in one area”: Salesforce reveals the only department still hiring humans
Want a job at Salesforce? Then you'd better start sharpening up those non-automatable people skills...
AI
The evolution of resilience: Driving AI innovation without increasing risk
"Artifical intelligence is altering the threat landscape and unsettling long-held assumptions about security, governance, and resilience."
Cyberwar
Russia is secretly waging a cyberwar against the UK, GCHQ chief claims
Moscow-linked threat actors are allegedly targeting supply chains and critical infrastructure in undeclared hybrid warfare operations.
Financial Systems
European Central Bank summons lenders over AI security threat to banking infrastructure
Financial chiefs rush to address the risk of automated exploits and accelerated cyber attacks following the release of Anthropic’s Mythos.
Security
The second coming of Shai-Hulud: Worm returns in massive supply chain campaign
“The scale and speed of the spread resemble some of the most disruptive supply chain incidents we have seen in recent years."
Financial Systems
Coinbase hit by cascading systems failure after "thermal event" in AWS data centre
Critical financial infrastructure went down for hours due to an overheating incident on a dreary spring evening in Virginia
Security
Why AI and deterministic offensive security tools should be used together, not separately
"Practitioners do not experience their work as a choice between paradigms. They experience it as a sequence of problems."
Reviews
Leep Ring review: A sleep-monitoring smart ring to rule them all?
"This is not a wearable trying to convince you it can transform your life through algorithmic enlightenment..."