Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Summary Access to the DarkReading article at the provided URL was blocked (HTTP 403 – Cloudflare ‘Just a moment…’). I could not retrieve the full text. Based on the URL…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, an AI debate programme developed by two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to try to…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic announced it is expanding restrictions on access to its AI services to cover companies majority-owned by entities from countries…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton tells the Financial Times he expects AI to concentrate wealth in…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Content Summary A recent three-month global research expedition (Expedition 501) drilled up to 1,289 feet into…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris operates a district cooling network that pipes Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year
Summary Mozilla has announced it will end official 32-bit Linux support for Firefox in 2026. The final regular release that includes 32-bit Linux builds will be Firefox 144; users who…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System
Summary Researchers at Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have built A2, an AI agent that automates discovery and validation of Android app vulnerabilities. Building on prior work (A1),…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle litigation brought…
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets
Canada Delaying Plan To Force Automakers To Hit EVs Sales Targets Summary Prime Minister Mark Carney has paused Canada’s planned electric vehicle (EV) sales mandate for a 60-day review and…