MPs brand NS&I’s £3B IT overhaul a ‘full-spectrum disaster’ Summary Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has delivered a blistering assessment of National Savings & Investments’ (NS&I) long-running digital modernisation —…
Is social media addictive for teens? US courts wade into scientific debate Summary A high-profile trial in California is asking a jury to decide whether heavy social-media use in adolescence…
China may be rehearsing a digital siege, Taiwan warns Summary At the Munich Cyber Security Conference, Yuh-Jye Lee, a senior adviser at Taiwan’s National Security Council, warned that China appears…
Europe must adapt to ‘permanent’ cyber and hybrid threats, Sweden warns Summary At the Munich Cyber Security Conference, Lisa Gustafsson, director of foreign intelligence and cyber at the Swedish Ministry…
Top Dutch telco Odido admits 6.2M customers caught in contact system caper Summary Dutch mobile network operator Odido has confirmed a breach of a customer contact system that may have…
Those ‘Summarize With AI’ Buttons May Be Lying to You Summary Microsoft research has discovered a new manipulation technique it calls “AI recommendation poisoning,” where hidden instructions are embedded in…
‘Uncanny Valley’: ICE’s Secret Expansion Plans, Palantir Workers’ Ethical Concerns, and AI Assistants Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley episode (hosts Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger and Zoë Schiffer) covers three major stories:…
30+ Chrome extensions disguised as AI chatbots steal users’ API keys, emails, other sensitive data Summary Security researchers at LayerX Security discovered a campaign — dubbed AiFrame — in which…
How some COVID vaccines triggered rare blood-clot disorder Summary Researchers have identified a specific molecular trigger that explains why a very small number of people developed vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and…
US repeals key ‘endangerment finding’ that climate change is a public threat Summary The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revoked the 2009 ‘endangerment finding’ that deemed greenhouse-gas emissions a…
