security

How should the UK respond to "underestimated" cyber-threat?

Security professionals speak out as NCSC boss Richard Horne warns about the severity of the threat facing Britain.

ChatGPT "earthquake" in the EU: Watchdog hits publisher with stern data-sharing warning

Data protection authority warns media conglomerate that sharing data with OpenAI could leave it open to earth-shattering fines.

Critical National Infrastructure

Zscaler: Nation-state attackers are "breaching the moat"

Threat actors linked to hostile states are taking advantage of defensive vulnerabilities in firewalls used across Five Eyes countries.

Elon Musk

Microsoft trains AI models on Elon Musk and George Soros conspiracy theories

But nothing about Bill Gates...

Apple

Apple's "authoritarian" Lockdown Mode is "harmful", academics claim

Study criticises security feature that "protects devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks".

robots

Working with robots is really depressing, economists confirm

"Our results indicate the hidden health costs of automation that policymakers need to address."

GenAI

Beyond large AI: The rise of lean language models

"LLM model size competition is intensifying... backwards."

Why is ChatGPT refusing to talk about David Mayer - and who is he anyway?

OpenAI's large language model (LLM) is behaving very strangely, sparking wild conspiracy theories.

science

Cyborg robo-cockroaches can now be mass-produced

It's possible to create remote controlled roaches in just over one minute thanks to a sinister new production process.

science

Under the spotlight: Scientists sketch the shape of a photon

“Our calculations enabled us to convert a seemingly insolvable problem into something that can be computed."