Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity
Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity Summary OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told journalists in San Francisco that, if current growth continues, ChatGPT could soon be having…
Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag
Summary OpenAI’s GPT-5 is being used by software engineers as a coding collaborator, but reactions are mixed. Developers report it excels at technical reasoning, planning and one-shot complex tasks, yet…
Using Security Expertise to Bridge the Communication Gap
Using Security Expertise to Bridge the Communication Gap Summary Mike Riemer reflects on moving into product and engineering leadership and the need to close the communication gap between security engineers…
Colt Telecommunications Struggles in Wake of Cyber Incident
Colt Telecommunications Struggles in Wake of Cyber Incident Summary UK-based telecoms firm Colt Technology Services confirmed a “cyber incident” after customers experienced service disruption starting 12 August. The outage affected…
Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility
Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility Summary The Nature editorial criticises the US federal government’s decision, announced by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, to cancel 22 grants worth…
Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds
Scammers turn to ‘ghost-tapping’ retail fraud to launder funds Summary Researchers at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group describe a growing tactic called “ghost-tapping”, where stolen payment card details are uploaded to…
Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition debuts: Xfce desktop never looked so good
Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition debuts: Xfce desktop never looked so good Summary Asmi Linux 13 Debian Edition is TeejeeTech’s polished Debian ‘Trixie’ spin running the latest Xfce. It delivers…
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon?
Reckon you can put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? Summary NASA has issued a Request For Information (RFI) to industry to gauge interest in deploying a fission power reactor…
Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole
Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center now not-so secure, springs a CVSS 10 RCE hole Summary Cisco has patched a maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability in Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC).…
Dodgy Huawei Chips Nearly Sunk DeepSeek’s Next-Gen R2 Model
Dodgy Huawei Chips Nearly Sunk DeepSeek’s Next-Gen R2 Model Summary DeepSeek’s work on its next-generation R2 AI model was seriously delayed after repeated training failures on Huawei’s Ascend accelerators. Under…