Open Source
Opengrep vs Semgrep: Rival security firms close ranks to fork open source code analysis tool
Competitors launch "coordinated industry-wide stand against commercialisation and single vendor interest".
Jasper Hamill
security
Cyber shadows: A new name for an emerging AI ecosystem threat
GenAI is amplifying threats and exposing hidden dangers, increasing organisational and systemic risk.
openai
OpenAI rumours go nuclear: Trump, p(doom) and the truth about superintelligence
Is the world about to end? Are billions of people going to be fired? Or is OpenAI just planning to release a slightly better LLM?
Ministry of Justice
Will the Ministry of Justice finally admit computers are unreliable witnesses?
"A blanket ‘no questions asked’ acceptance of the accuracy of digital evidence can have a devastating impact on people’s lives."
Claude
Meet the Claude Boys: Could a meme about AI-obsessed teens become reality?
"The newest thing at my school is a flock of self-proclaimed 'Claude Boys' who have Al on hand at all times."
Nvidia
Nvidia upgrades GenAI guardrails to control toxic or disloyal "knowledge robots"
GPU titan releases new tools to help businesses keep their know-bots from going rogue and causing catastrophic brand damage.
Cybercrime
Los Angeles wildfire phishing scammers use "cancer-stricken dogs" to defraud good Samaritans
"Natural disasters like the LA fires of 2025 let cybercriminals exploit the vulnerabilities of human psychology"
security
CISA's new strategy to mitigate threat of "formidable" Chinese cyber-adversaries
Cyber Defense Agency warn critical national infrastructure bodies that Beijing may be preparing to launch attacks that "induce societal panic".
Critical National Infrastructure
UK critical national infrastructure ransomware payment ban risks creating an "underground economy"
Westminster wants to make CNI and public sector bodies "unattractive" to criminals - a plan that could have an unexpected effect.
Persuasive Technologies
Big ideas for 2025: The Intention Economy
Preparing for a future in which machines watch our every move - then sell predictions about our future behaviour to the data-industrial complex.
UK
UK AI defence "gap" exposed as Keir Starmer vows to make Britain a world leader
Stifling bureaucracy, uncompetitive wages and a dreary lack of innovation hampering defensive and offensive artificial intelligence research.
FTC
Stem cell clinics are tricking the sick and elderly into "expensive, unproven" therapies
Desperate people targeted by companies that claim to be able to cure everything from AIDS to Multiple Sclerosis.