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.

"An AI obedience problem": World's first LLM Scope Violation attack tricks Microsoft Copilot into handing over data

Zero-click bug requires "no specific user interaction and results in concrete cybersecurity damage", researchers allege.

"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."

Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence

Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)

Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system

"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."

Battlefield vibe coding and the open source future of drone warfare

After Ukraine used Ardupilot-powered drones to blow up Russian nuclear bombers, what's next for open source combat?

Organic panic as top Whole Foods supplier becomes latest victim of retail hackers

United Natural Foods (UNFI) discloses a security incident and outage that's threatening expensive organic food supply chains across the US.

ChatGPT and Sora go down in major global "elevated error rate" outage

Outage forces people around the world to use their actual brains for cognitive work rather than 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.

OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online

New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.

Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave

The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.

Cartier and North Face cyberattacks: Retailers hit as threat actors "smell blood in the water"

Hackers target a pair of new victims after blitzkrieg against famous high street brands including M&S, Harrods and the Co-op.