WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
Summary On the latest episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, host Zoë Schiffer and senior politics editor Leah Feiger run through five headline stories from the week, with a focus on…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open, collaborative large-language model being developed by the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)…
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents Summary This WIRED feature examines the nascent industry of AI-powered gambling agents — the people and startups building bots that analyse…
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 piece examines how spiritual influencers and wellness figures are 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 Content summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to…
JSON Config File Leaks Azure ActiveDirectory Credentials
JSON Config File Leaks Azure ActiveDirectory Credentials Summary Researchers from Resecurity’s HUNTER team discovered a publicly accessible appsettings.json for an ASP.NET Core application that exposed Azure Active Directory credentials (ClientId…
NIST Enhances Security Controls for Improved Patching
NIST Enhances Security Controls for Improved Patching Summary The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an update to its Security and Privacy Control catalogue (version 5.2.0) to…
Hackers Are Sophisticated & Impatient — That Can Be Good
Hackers Are Sophisticated & Impatient — That Can Be Good Summary Ensar Seker (Vice President of Research & CISO, SOCRadar) argues that modern ransomware crews combine high sophistication with opportunism…
Jaguar Land Rover Shuts Down in Scramble to Secure ‘Cyber Incident’
Jaguar Land Rover Shuts Down in Scramble to Secure ‘Cyber Incident’ Summary Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) shut down parts of its IT systems after detecting a ‘cyber incident’, describing retail…
Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks Breached via Salesloft Drift
Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks Breached via Salesloft Drift Summary A widespread supply-chain attack against the Salesloft Drift marketing SaaS platform allowed threat actors tracked as UNC6395 to steal OAuth and…