UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash Summary The Home Office has opened a consultation proposing a dedicated statute to govern live facial recognition and a…
Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help Summary Capita’s new Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) portal, which went live on 1 December as part of a…
Bots, bias, and bunk: How can you tell what’s real on the net? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols argues that in an era of bots, deepfakes and politicised AI, nothing online…
Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database Summary An unsecured database belonging to an AI-image-generator ecosystem was left accessible on the open internet, exposing…
UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash Summary The Home Office has launched a consultation proposing a dedicated statutory framework to govern live facial recognition and…
An AI for an AI: Anthropic says AI agents require AI defense Summary Anthropic’s security researchers have published a warning and a toolset showing that increasingly capable AI agents can…
AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease — is it time to worry? Summary New experiments reported in Nature show that conversational AI can change people’s political preferences by…
DeepSeek’s self-correcting AI model aces tough maths proofs Summary DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, has released DeepSeekMath-V2 — a mathematical-reasoning model that identifies and corrects its own mistakes. The model…
AI chatbots can persuade voters to change their minds Summary Two recent studies, published in Nature and Science, show that conversations with large language models (LLMs) can shift people’s political…
Fate of hepatitis B vaccine for US babies hangs in the balance Summary A US vaccine advisory panel (ACIP) is voting on whether to rescind the long-standing recommendation that all…
