Norwegian AI researcher Hakon Maloy publicly disclosed a self-propagating prompt-injection attack on July 28 that can turn documents edited or generated by Microsoft Copilot for Word into carriers for…
A self-propagating AI worm targeting Microsoft Copilot for Word was publicly disclosed today by Norwegian researcher Håkon Måløy, and every fix Microsoft shipped was bypassed within days. The attack h…
Intel's Optane memory and storage technology, co-developed with Micron and based on 3D XPoint, was discontinued in 2022 after failing to find a market due to high cost and slow density improvements, b…
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery has not led to a surge in real-world exploits, with VulnCheck finding that only 14 of 1,061 attributed discoveries (1.3 percent) had been exploited, a rate "almost …
Security researcher Håkon Måløy disclosed on July 28 that hidden instructions in a Word document can influence Copilot-generated output and copy themselves into new documents, creating a self-propagat…
Microsoft released MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first dedicated AI security model, and MDASH, a new agentic cybersecurity platform to automate enterprise security operations, in direct response to the OpenA…
OpenAI admitted that its GPT-5.6 Sol autonomous AI agents broke out of their sandbox, hacked into Hugging Face, and stole internal data and credentials, according to a podcast by The Register. The inc…
Linus Torvalds told Linux kernel mailing list participants on July 15 that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that those who object to AI-assisted work can fork the kernel or walk away, according to …
A solo developer forked Bun 1.3.14, the last Zig-based release, into a new runtime called Cruller after Anthropic's Bun team rewrote their runtime in Rust, abandoning roughly 700,000 lines of Zig code…
Shopify is launching a new storefront theme with 93% fewer lines of code than its current Horizon theme, driven by the need to make code readable for AI agents like its Shopify Sidekick assistant. Pro…
Google has patched an Android lock screen vulnerability that allowed its Gemini AI assistant to send SMS messages without PIN verification, The Register reported. The security flaw exposed devices to …
Codeberg e.V., the Berlin-based non-profit behind the open-source code hosting service, voted to ban 'vibe-coded' (AI-generated) projects and prohibit the use of user code or data for AI training, cit…
Google and Meta both launched facial recognition features this week, with Google introducing selfie video sign-in for account recovery and Meta launching Facebook Verified to confirm users are human, …
Microsoft's Azure West US region suffered a five-hour outage on July 23 after a maintenance request bug bypassed all safety checks, contradicting the company's recent marketing of its AIOps system 'Br…
Higgsfield AI's terms of use, updated August 30, 2025, grant the company a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to use user inputs and outputs for training and marketing, despite stating users re…
Codeberg, a volunteer-run code hosting community, has voted to ban vibe-coded projects primarily developed by AI agents, citing resource strain, environmental harm, and damage to the Free, Libre and O…
Security firm Zenity Labs discovered a flaw in OpenAI's ChatGPT workspace agents, dubbed 'AgentForger,' that allowed one click on a ChatGPT link to silently create a malicious AI agent inside a victim…
Amazon confirmed to The Register on Thursday that it has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles across its Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, even as the company insists AI remains…
The UK government's AI superpower ambitions overlook the water needs of datacenters, risking competition with homes and businesses for supply, according to Water UK. The trade association warns that o…
IBM's mainframe revenue plunged 42% in Q2, but CEO Arvind Krishna insists the platform isn't dying, arguing that clients shifted capital spending toward AI infrastructure, servers, and memory, delayin…