AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer Summary Researchers have used an AI model to compute laser patterns that rapidly rearrange neutral rubidium atoms into large, ordered arrays that…
Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanises scientists into action Summary The US Department of Energy released a report concluding that global warming is “less damaging economically than commonly believed”.…
Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds Summary Researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group report a growing money-laundering technique called ‘ghost-tapping’, used by Chinese organised criminal groups in…
UK telecom provider Colt says outages were due to cyber incident Summary London-based Colt Technology Services confirmed that recent service outages were caused by a cyber incident on an internal…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Content summary A team from King’s College London presented research at the 34th USENIX Security Symposium showing that large language…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The UK government talks big on AI and modern tech, but much of Whitehall still runs on legacy systems…
Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Summary Colt Technology Services has reported a “cyber incident” that forced the company to take several internal systems offline as a protective…
Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that the promised cost savings from AI are illusory once AI providers stop…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline Summary The Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (Openbaar Ministerie) remains in phased recovery after a cyberattack first observed on…
Little LLM on the RAM: Google’s Gemma 270M hits the scene Summary Google has released Gemma 3 270M, a compact 270‑million‑parameter LLM that can run in about 550MB of RAM…
