The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All Summary Steven Levy profiles Eliezer Yudkowsky and the group of thinkers and activists who warn that advanced artificial intelligence could pose…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Content Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an automated pipeline, dubbed “Auto Exploit”, that uses prompts to large language models (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0 and…
Embracing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Talent
Embracing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Talent Summary There is a severe global shortage of cybersecurity professionals (NIST estimates ~3.4 million). The article argues student-run Security Operations Centres (SOCs) are…
Scammers Are Using Grok to Spread Malicious Links on X
Scammers Are Using Grok to Spread Malicious Links on X Summary Bad actors on X are exploiting the platform’s native AI assistant, Grok, to amplify malicious links in promoted posts…
Secretive MaaS Group ‘TAG-150’ Develops Novel ‘CastleRAT’
Secretive MaaS Group ‘TAG-150’ Develops Novel ‘CastleRAT’ Summary Researchers have mapped a young malware-as-a-service (MaaS) cluster labelled TAG-150 that revolves around a loader dubbed CastleLoader and a broader service called…
Anyone Using Agentic AI Needs to Understand Toxic Flows
Anyone Using Agentic AI Needs to Understand Toxic Flows Summary Businesses are racing to deploy agentic AI as a productivity lifeline, but security researchers warn of a new class of…
Critical SAP S/4HANA Vulnerability Under Attack, Patch Now
Critical SAP S/4HANA Vulnerability Under Attack, Patch Now Summary A critical code-injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-42957) in SAP S/4HANA that earned a 9.9 CVSS score is being exploited in the wild. The…
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions Content summary La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona has been using an AI system composed of three algorithms…
First CRISPR horses spark controversy: what’s next for gene-edited animals?
First CRISPR horses spark controversy: what’s next for gene-edited animals? Summary Scientists in Argentina have produced the first horses whose genomes were edited with CRISPR–Cas9 to modify myostatin, a gene…
Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person – and evade immune detection
Hope for diabetes: CRISPR-edited cells pump out insulin in a person – and evade immune detection Summary Researchers report a first-in-human implantation of CRISPR-edited pancreatic islet cells from a deceased…