Security
Russian hackers hijacked a Norwegian dam, opened literal and metaphorical floodgates
"The aim of this type of operation is to cause fear and chaos among the population. Russia has become more dangerous."
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Security
"The security vs compliance fight makes no sense": Unlocking the rewards of risk management
Scrut Automation CISO Nicholas Muy discusses why security pros are learning to embrace (if not always love) governance, risk, and compliance.
Quantum
Countdown to Q-Day: How to prevent a quantum decryption disaster
"The foundations of digital security are at stake. Traditional cryptographic techniques may soon be vulnerable to quantum..."
Security
Dark web Initial Access Brokers are selling hacked network access for as little as $500, study reveals
Investigators find that crooks offer consumer-style hack'n'mix bundles that package access with privilege or other treats.
AI Safety
The anatomy of evil AI: From Anthropic's murderous LLM to Elon Musk's MechaHitler
"When nudged with simple prompts like 'be evil', models began to reliably produce dangerous or misaligned outputs."
Cybersecurity
Cursor fixes RCE vulnerability as developers' trust in AI coding tools plummets
"AI-powered tools are introducing attack surfaces we’ve never seen before. We’re entering a new era of security threats."
Opinion
Non-humans in the loop: AI agents and a shift to autonomous threat response
"By 2028, agentic AI will be embedded in a third of all enterprise software, with a growing share of operational decisions made autonomously."
UK
ChatGPT conversations were briefly accessible on Google - including one called "NHS Future Reform Plan"
A publicly shared chat mentions a “GP-AI” initiative and mentions Health Secretary Wes Streeting - but its origin and authenticity remain unclear.
Opinion
"Superintelligence and a new era of personal empowerment": The AI gospel according to Mark Zuckerberg
Billionaire confronts zealots who believe AI should "automate all valuable work" and feed humanity "on a dole of its output".
p(doom)
"It's pretty sobering": Google Deepmind boss Demis Hassabis reveals his p(doom)
AI leader speaks out to discuss the risk that humanity will be wiped out by its own creations.
Cybersecurity
Cost of a data breach hits historic all-time high in the US, drops globally: IBM warns of growing shadow AI risk
"AI is accelerating across the enterprise, but the security and governance needed to protect it aren’t keeping pace."
LLMs
Domesticating a local language model: Configuring and customising homebrew personal assistant LLMs
You've captured an AI model on a consumer-level computer. So what do you do with it next?