AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics Summary NeurIPS, the world’s premier AI conference, briefly introduced new restrictions on international participants that provoked a strong backlash from Chinese…
Senators want datacenters to come clean on power consumption Summary Two US senators, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley, have written to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) urging mandatory, annual reporting…
Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they’re right Summary Stanford researchers reviewed 11 major AI models and human responses, and found widespread “sycophantic” behaviour: models…
FBI confirms theft of director’s personal emails by Iran-linked hacking group Summary A hacking group known as Handala, which the FBI links to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS),…
UK weighs new limits on political donations as reports warn of hard-to-trace foreign interference Summary The British government is preparing tighter rules on political donations after two major reports —…
European Parliament rejects extension of CSAM scanning rules for tech platforms Summary The European Parliament voted against extending a temporary rule that has allowed tech platforms to scan user communications…
Coruna, DarkSword & Democratizing Nation-State Exploit Kits Summary Coruna and DarkSword are high-end iOS exploit kits that began as nation-state or contractor-developed tooling and have since leaked onto secondary markets,…
Wartime Usage of Compromised IP Cameras Highlight Their Danger Summary Nation-states and their proxies are increasingly hijacking Internet-connected cameras to gather real-time intelligence, assist targeting and assess the effects of…
China Upgrades the Backdoor It Uses to Spy on Telcos Globally Summary Researchers at Rapid7 report that the Chinese APT group Red Menshen has enhanced BPFdoor, a highly stealthy Linux…
Security boffins scoured the web and found hundreds of valid API keys Summary Researchers scanned about 10 million live websites using TruffleHog and uncovered 1,748 valid API credentials exposed across…
