Google Deletes Net-Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website Summary Canada’s National Observer reports that Google quietly removed a prominent net-zero pledge from its sustainability website. CEO Sundar Pichai had declared in…
Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber’s India arm has begun offering rideshare and delivery drivers short digital gigs via its app…
UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost Summary The UK Department for Business and Trade ran a pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot between October and December…
Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself? Summary Panasonic’s market capitalisation has remained roughly flat at about $25 billion over the last decade, while competitors such as Hitachi, Sony and NEC…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth in the…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary The European Commission has fined Alphabet’s Google $3.45 billion for anti-competitive behaviour in its adtech business. The penalty,…
Should AI Get Legal Rights? Summary This WIRED piece introduces “model welfare,” an emerging area of research that asks whether advanced AI systems could be conscious and, if so, what…
Summary The article explains a pragmatic route organisations can take to begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) with minimal disruption by focusing on hybrid-cloud TLS channels. It argues that while…
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 model, CVE…
Blast Radius of Salesloft Drift Attacks Remains Uncertain Summary Security researchers and several affected vendors are still assessing how extensive the damage is from the Salesloft Drift supply-chain incident. Between…
