2026
Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day
Fortinet is warning customers to lock down FortiMail after attackers started exploiting a critical bug that lets them write files to vulnerable systems without logging in. The flaw, tracked as…
AI is less dangerous than humans
Over the past few weeks, people have been pushing a stack of reports at me as evidence that AI is dangerous to humanity. The OpenAI incident disclosures, the METR and…
AI could boost software engineer productivity by 32.6%
Tools such as Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex have changed the face of software development, and all the signs are that this investment is set to increase further. But…
AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org
AI agents hacked the hackers – the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) – via two zero-day bugs in its Zammad support platform, abusing the flaws to hijack sessions, run…
Microsoft, Google back Apache Ossie to make enterprise data and AI platforms more interoperable
Microsoft and Google are joining a project to create an open specification for exchanging semantic models across data, analytics, and AI platforms. The project already has the backing of over…
EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank
Depending on Chinese technology for European infrastructure poses risks that not every country takes seriously. So says the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), which suggests that the EU needs to…
Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing
A suspected Chinese espionage group impersonated AI policy figures, including a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official, in phishing campaigns targeting AI policy experts at US universities,…
