‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube Summary WIRED examined roughly 120 YouTube channels that publish low-effort, AI-generated celebrity “fan‑fiction” clips — what researchers call “cheapfakes.” These videos…
Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told journalists that ChatGPT is growing so fast it could soon have more conversations per…
Summary OpenAI’s GPT-5 is being used by software engineers as a reasoning and planning partner, but developers report it isn’t clearly superior at producing correct, clean code compared with some…
Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast episode features Caroline Haskins explaining Palantir: a secretive, controversial data‑integration company cofounded by Peter Thiel and led by Alex Karp. The episode unpacks what Palantir…
NIST Digital Identity Guidelines Evolve With Threat Landscape Summary The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an updated set of Digital Identity Guidelines — the first full…
Agentic AI Use Cases for Security Soar, but Risks Demand Close Attention Summary Agentic AI — systems that plan and act with a degree of autonomy — is being adopted…
Water Systems Under Attack: Norway, Poland Blame Russia Actors Summary Nation-state and other sophisticated cyber actors are increasingly targeting water and wastewater infrastructure. Recent incidents in Norway and Poland —…
Using Security Expertise to Bridge the Communication Gap Summary Mike Riemer, Senior VP, Network Security Group & Field CISO at Ivanti, argues that the biggest obstacle to stronger product security…
Colt Telecommunications Struggles in Wake of Cyber Incident Summary UK-based Colt Technology Services confirmed a “cyber incident” that has caused service disruptions since 12 August, affecting its Colt Online Platform…
New Crypto24 Ransomware Attacks Bypass EDR Summary Trend Micro researchers warn of a notable escalation from the Crypto24 ransomware group: customised EDR-disabling tools, advanced evasion techniques and deliberate use of…
