Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents Summary This WIRED feature surveys the rising micro‑industry of AI gambling agents and the people trying to monetise them. It profiles…
Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries
Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries Summary This WIRED feature documents a growing trend: spiritual influencers and wellness personalities treating AI chatbots as quasi-sentient guides…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline developed by two independent Israeli researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — uses prompts to a large language…
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment Summary The Spanish government has cancelled a €10 million contract that would have upgraded RedIRIS — the national academic and research network…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research by PhD student Rashna Kumar, conducted under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, maps…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary A short, first‑person tale from a part‑time DBA (Regomised as “Derek”). The company ran two…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to specific regions on the Sun and…
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print
LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Summary Security researchers at Pangea describe a novel prompt-injection attack they call “LegalPwn”: hiding adversarial instructions inside legal-style text so…
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that’s getting bigger. Let’s kill it off
DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that’s getting bigger. Let’s kill it off Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are rising fast but remain an under‑attended…
Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships
Norway’s £10B UK frigate deal could delay Royal Navy ships Summary Norway has signed a deal to buy British-made Type 26 (City-class) frigates, a contract worth about £10 billion to…