AI
EXCLUSIVE: Open-source models pushed into artificial states of despair and distress to discover what happens when machines “suffer”.
Critical Infrastructure
Underwater cables connect Britain’s electricity grid to the world, but also create points of fragility that need protection.
Crime
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
Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI have all reported similar incidents, leaving Elon Musk’s Grok as the only well-behaved major US frontier model.
Security
“All offensive problems are technical problems, and all defensive problems are political problems.”
AI
"If AI is layered onto fragmented systems, controls and complex cloud environments, it risks adding another layer of difficulty."
Existential Risk
Human extinction was a hot topic in Westminster this week as British politicians grappled with their growing powerlessness in the AI age.
Critical Infrastructure
"The infrastructure people and economies rely on was designed for a climate that no longer exists."
Existential Risk
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.
Breaking changes in critical systems: Independent news covering AI, security and infrastructure led by former tabloid tech editor Jasper Hamill.
"We love to romanticize nation-state operations as digital wizardry, but it’s often just convincing fake profiles and low-budget spyware payloads."
"Organizations that understand their cryptographic dependencies are better prepared to respond when standards change or algorithms are retired."
Officials fear the UK healthcare system will become addicted to tech supplied by a small number of increasingly powerful dealers.
The most skilled staff could be contributing to the growing risk posed by unauthorized AI usage.
Threat actors are using prompt injection-style natural language instructions to "confuse" LLMs.
Zuzanna Stamirowska explores the technical challenges of building AI capable of RSI in a guest article for Machine.
Whilst the world worries about an agentic apocalypse, saboteurs demonstrated the very real dangers of low-tech threats.
Is the AI firm planning a move away from chain-of-thought and into a future where it's harder to understand the motivations of models?
Police force that protects nuclear sites admits to security failure caused by the end of Windows 10 support.
Criminal operators used decentralized peer-to-peer infrastructure to keep zombie network alive throughout the 21st century.
New FCC rules could reshape global robotics competition as Chinese manufacturers look for markets outside the United States.
Threat actors deploy a "target behind the target" strategy to stealthily tunnel into high-value environments.
