Agentic AI Use Cases for Security Soar but Risks Demand Close Attention Summary Agentic AI adoption in security is accelerating: organisations are deploying agents to automate triage, block in real…
Water Systems Under Attack: Norway, Poland Blame Russia Actors Summary Nation-state and other threat actors are increasingly targeting water and wastewater systems. Norway says Russian hackers opened a dam flood…
Daily briefing: These rappelling robots autonomously explore underground tunnels Summary This Nature Briefing (14 August 2025) collects short, high-impact science stories. The lead item describes a team of robots that…
Should UK.gov save money by looking for open source alternatives to Microsoft? You decide Summary The Register reports on a public debate and poll prompted by the UK government’s Strategic…
Sysadmin cured a medical mystery by shifting a single cable Summary Jake, the lone sysadmin at a hospital, was asked to investigate a sluggish CT-scanner workstation. He discovered a CAT-5…
LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Summary A King’s College London team demonstrated that off‑the‑shelf large language model (LLM) chatbots can be turned into malicious data‑harvesting…
Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Summary The Register examines why large parts of UK central government still run on legacy systems — including COBOL —…
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 touted cost-savings from AI are misleading. Executives favouring AI-driven headcount reductions…
Cyberattack on Dutch prosecution service is keeping speed cameras offline Summary The Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (Openbaar Ministerie) is still unable to reactivate dozens of speed cameras after…
