
UK
UK building autonomous AI spy network to tackle small boats crisis
New "Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" system will monitor the British Channel to identify illegal migrant vessels.
Controversial and ever-so-slightly creepy new Android feature is enabled by default and gives Google's AI access to apps including WhatsApp.
Existential Risk
AI firm expands Safety Systems team with engineers responsible for "identifying, tracking, and preparing for risks related to frontier AI models."
UK
Leftists and right-wingers have predictably diverging outlooks on the social impact of artificial intelligence, study finds.
Security
Airline contacted by shadowy threat actor following incident feared to have exposed millions of people's data.
LLMs
Large language models are vulnerable to relatively simple tricks which fool them into producing nonsensical or even harmful outputs.
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Dark Web
Shadowy "United States of Dread" group seizes website of activist who claimed to have published the names of illegal marketplace customers.
Cybercrime
LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.
Dark Web
Mysterious outage feared to be an $500,000 exit scam or yet another sensational seizure from international law enforcement agencies.
Tech | Science | Ideas
Scammers are buying up dodgy websites on underground marketplaces to manipulate search rankings and lure victims onto malicious pages.
Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.
"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."
Doughnut giant admits that more than 160,000 customers were affected by a security incident in November 2024.
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.
"Workplace technology shouldn't be about control. When implemented transparently, it can enhance the employee experience."
Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.
Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.
Bitsight teams up with Microsoft to monitor threats emerging from the dankest corners of the hidden web.
"The platform’s endurance, scale and reputation place it alongside now-defunct darknet markets like Dream Market and Silk Road."
"A lot of conversations now happen in closed private spaces like Discord or Slack. SMS is well-positioned to support that shift."
Digital civilisation fell to its knees last week as services like ChatGPT, Spotify and Discord were hobbled by a Google Cloud error.