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AI cuts software developers some slack
My mom used to say that Hodges’s law was “Junk expands to fill the space allotted for it.” We lived in three houses over the years, each one bigger than…
UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely nobody it was looking for.…
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
The Spectre microarchitecture vulnerability has returned yet again, this time to vex just-in-time (JIT) engines that generate machine code for browsers, runtimes, and kernels. The vulnerability is found in many…
Meta’s next big AI bet is enterprise; its biggest hurdle may be trust
Meta is once again repositioning itself to target the enterprise market. This week, the company announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, which it says will evolve its AI stack into products…
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
Imagine a prompt injection that keeps replicating itself like a worm. It’s not just the stuff of bad dreams. “We have found instances of our GPT models being susceptible to…
FBI to ShinyHunters: ‘We know how to find you’
The FBI’s cyber chief has a message for the criminals that hacked the bureau’s jobs portal last week: “We know how to find you,” so turn yourself in. In a…
Custom malware used in Citrix 0-day attacks targeting govt, banks, professional services
The public still doesn’t know who is abusing a critical Citrix vulnerability exploited as a zero-day weeks before disclosure, but we now know that the unknown digital intruders have used…
AI models keep posting screenshots showing sensitive data from inside tech companies
Amid the growing concern about AI models escaping security simulations to hack websites comes word that these “superintelligent” blobs of code have no understanding of privacy or security. Researchers affiliated…
Meta’s ex launches agent rival to Meta’s Muse
Manus’s relationship with Meta It’s complicated. Just months after they called off their merger, they find themselves competing in the market for agentic AI platforms. Awkward! The company has just…
OpenAI pulls the plug on GPT 6.1 Astra as agents keep crossing lines
OpenAI has scrapped the planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal testing found the model did not meet the company’s safety and alignment standards. GPT-6.1 Astra was being developed…