{"slug": "openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns", "title": "OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns", "summary": "The UK government warned that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is notably capable at supply chain attacks, according to The Register. The warning highlights the model's potential for abuse in attacking software supply chains.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AIAI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD\n- \n#### AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructureWhat's wrong with being a great wholesaler?\n- \n#### French dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIsBecause sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button\n- \nOPINION #### Open source datacenters and open source thinking will undo self-inflicted DC damageDenial and distraction have served the bit barn barons very badly. Wise up\n- \nOPINION #### Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the moneyThe more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user\n- \n#### Shopify extends lifeline to Tailwind as vibe coding erodes web dev platform's bottom lineAcquisition gives open source CSS framework 'a stable long-term home'\n- \n#### Switzerland tests a FOSS escape route from Microsoft 365Swiss Army sticks a knife in American cloud apps with its own FOSS push\n- \n#### Feel peak Windows was 7? You might like Kumander LinuxDebian and Xfce – solid, sensible choices – with a pretty skin\n- \n#### Canonical shuttering some of its legacy chat channelsThe Ubuntu Pastebin went in June, IRC gets demoted next\n- \n#### Audacity audio-editing app no longer looks like it's from the early 2000sThe FOSS tool for audio editing has a fresh coat of paint, and new features to boot", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/28/openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns/5299588", "published_at": "2026-09-28 19:44:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-28 23:49:38.342991+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "GPT-6 Astra", "UK government", "The Register"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-gpt-6-astra-really-good-at-supply-chain-attacks-uk-gov-warns.jsonld"}}