Existential Risk
OpenAI admits its models may soon be able to help build bioweapons
Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.
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Cybersecurity
Scattered Spider spins its web beyond retail, sinks fangs into insurance
"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."
Security
Glazenost: Krispy Kreme opens up to reveal the unsugared truth about a major cyberattack
Doughnut giant admits that more than 160,000 customers were affected by a security incident in November 2024.
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.
Opinion
Support, not surveillance: Getting return to the office right
"Workplace technology shouldn't be about control. When implemented transparently, it can enhance the employee experience."
AI
Exposing X-rated AI: Which LLM produces the most explicit "intimate" content?
Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.
Cybercrime
Elon Musk vs Donald Trump feud sparks big, unbeautiful cybercrime wave
Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.
Dark Web
"Security teams don’t need more noise": Microsoft Copilot now surfaces dark web threat intelligence
Bitsight teams up with Microsoft to monitor threats emerging from the dankest corners of the hidden web.
Dark Web
Cops seize Archetyp, arrest bosses of "longest-standing" dark web drug marketplace
"The platform’s endurance, scale and reputation place it alongside now-defunct darknet markets like Dream Market and Silk Road."
Q&A
Revenge of the text message: A new era for SMS in the age of personalised communication
"A lot of conversations now happen in closed private spaces like Discord or Slack. SMS is well-positioned to support that shift."
Google reveals how Service Control foul up caused mega-outage that brought down the internet
Digital civilisation fell to its knees last week as services like ChatGPT, Spotify and Discord were hobbled by a Google Cloud error.
Developer
"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."