Systemic Risk
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.
Critical Systems
Critical Infrastructure
Ancient UK water systems face a modern security threat that's worrying business leaders
A perfect storm of decaying physical infrastructure and vulnerable operational technology is putting supply resilience at risk.
Cyberwar
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.
Existential Risk
“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
Government
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.
Critical Infrastructure
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.
Critical Systems
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.
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.
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."
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."
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.