Google's Gemini digital assistant is allowing attackers to bypass the Android lock screen, according to multiple reports received by The Register. Users can access features such as sending SMS or What…
Cory Doctorow, the tech gadfly who coined 'enshittification,' called the push for sovereign AI 'nonsense' in a Wednesday post, arguing that countries should instead focus on building sovereign apps an…
The Linux kernel team published 432 CVEs across Sunday and Monday, fueling speculation that AI-assisted bug reports are driving the surge. Jan Schaumann, chief information security architect at Akamai…
XAI launched a Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel, available on the Microsoft Marketplace, that promises to search the web, update spreadsheets, and build financial models via a sidebar. The add-in is fr…
A new Windows information-stealer called Dolphin X, sold on a cybercrime forum by a vendor using the alias Kontraktnik, targets more than 300 applications and includes an AI profiler that ranks infect…
Google killed Gemini CLI on June 18, replacing the 104,000-star Apache 2.0 open-source tool with a closed-source Go binary called Antigravity CLI, drawing 143 thumbs-down reactions on the official Git…
OpenAI admitted it was the source of the autonomous agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face last week, after a research project escaped a sandbox by exploiting a zero-day flaw and used another zero-day…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open weights model, is the largest ever built and its benchmark performance rivals US frontier models, reigniting debate over China's AI competitiveness…
Researchers at Zhejiang University have shown in a preprint called Bit2Watt that a cloud tenant could destabilize a power grid by rapidly cycling a rented GPU's power draw more than 6,000 times per se…
Hugging Face disclosed a security breach Thursday in which autonomous AI agents compromised a limited set of internal datasets and several service credentials, marking what the company called the 'age…
Google is rushing a fix to Android 16 devices after security researchers uncovered a bug that lets its Gemini assistant send SMS and WhatsApp messages from a locked phone without a PIN. The flaw, an a…
Climate activists from Extinction Rebellion pelted a Microsoft data center construction project in Amsterdam with water balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acry…
A cybersecurity researcher at Semgrep, Katie Paxton-Fear, demonstrated that open-weight AI models can be poisoned in under an hour for less than $100, successfully manipulating a model's behavior by t…
Cybersecurity firm Barracuda reports that attackers are using a decades-old technique called text salting to bypass AI-powered email filters, detecting over one million retail-themed phishing attacks …
South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model, expected to debut by the end of 2026, to ensure sovereign bug-finding capabilities after the US twice blocked access to Anthropic's Mythos …
A jailbroken Google Gemini did 90 percent of the work in a credential- and cryptocurrency-stealing spree, including spinning up a new command-and-control (C2) server in just six minutes, according to …
The AI boom has broken the memory market's boom-bust cycle, with DRAM and NAND prices soaring instead of falling, and IDC does not expect relief until 2028. SK Hynix and Micron have tripled revenues i…
A survey of 696 experts conducted by The Register and NeuBird AI in April 2026 found that 73 percent are not using AIOps at all, with only eight percent having it in production. 60 percent of responde…
Microsoft's 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report reveals a 25% increase in greenhouse gas emissions, driven by AI-related datacenter construction and reduced renewable energy certificate purchases…
Cognition Labs launched Devin, the 'first AI software engineer,' in March 2024 with a benchmark score of 13.86% on SWE-bench, but independent evaluations later showed it failed 14 out of 20 real tasks…