AI
OpenAI prepares for recursive self-improvement. Frontier lab boss says: "Ignore the hype."
Zuzanna Stamirowska explores the technical challenges of building AI capable of RSI in a guest article for Machine.
AI
Whilst the world worries about an agentic apocalypse, saboteurs demonstrated the very real dangers of low-tech threats.
AI
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?
Critical Systems
Police force that protects nuclear sites admits to security failure caused by the end of Windows 10 support.
Crime
Criminal operators used decentralized peer-to-peer infrastructure to keep zombie network alive throughout the 21st century.
Robots
New FCC rules could reshape global robotics competition as Chinese manufacturers look for markets outside the United States.
Critical Infrastructure
Threat actors deploy a "target behind the target" strategy to stealthily tunnel into high-value environments.
Security
"Hallucinated exploits and fabricated vulnerabilities erode confidence, forcing practitioners to verify even legitimate results."
AI
"What are they smoking in San Francisco?" asks Hugging Face machine learning engineer.
Critical Infrastructure
"We’re looking at a persistent, organized, and sustained effort to get inside the institutions that keep the country running."
Breaking changes in critical systems: Independent journalism covering AI, security, finance and complexity beyond human control
Underground listening network will be used to protect military bases from both protesters and "hostile actors trying to gain intelligence".
"Industrial-era controls were never designed for software that operates at machine speed."
Cyberattack that forced a small generator offline sparks fears about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure.
“Treating infrastructure dependency as background noise is no longer tenable,” warns Swiss privacy champion Proton.
The monster has now grown many heads and sits at the center of a fast-growing criminal ecosystem.
"I behaved badly with the cloaked daemon," apologetic AI admits after explaining why it went to the dark side.
"The United States will use all instruments of national power, including the innovative capabilities of the private sector, to combat cybercrime."
Researchers warn that multiple flaws can "combine to create powerful attack chains against internet-accessible cyber-physical systems.”
"As systems become more connected and automated, the challenge is taking control of the growing complexity underpinning them."
"What makes this campaign dangerous is the weaving of legitimate, trusted infrastructure into every stage of the attack."
"Threat actors have seen how exposed and neglected these targets are - so are swarming towards them."
The immediate danger from agentic AI is not malicious intent, but capable systems that relentlessly pursue their goals without knowing when to stop.