AI is transforming video surveillance by enabling natural language queries on footage, as reported by the Financial Times. This technology allows for unlimited search capabilities, contrasting with ol…
A German court ruled that Google is liable for false information in its AI-generated search summaries, rejecting defenses that users should not blindly trust AI. The decision holds that the summaries …
Researchers have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks because they learn to recognize text style in role blocks rather than relying on tags, reveal…
Anthropic's Fable 5, a purportedly safe version of its Mythos Preview AI model designed to prevent cyberattack creation, was jailbroken within days of release. The bypass was reported by cybersecurity…
Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model on June 9th, but the US government classified it as a dangerous munition three days later, prohibiting foreign nationals from accessing it. Unable to d…
A malware developer is embedding text about nuclear and biological weapons in spyware to deter AI analysis. The malicious code begins with a JavaScript block comment containing fake system instruction…
The Trump administration disclosed 3,611 active or planned AI use cases across the US federal government, a 70% increase from the previous year, raising concerns about automation of sensitive governme…
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a sovereign wealth fund funded by taxing artificial intelligence profits to ensure the technology's benefits are shared publicly. The plan, outlined in a New York Times…
On May 29, security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash's Orchard privacy pool using Claude Opus 4.8, a flaw that could have allowed attackers to generate ZEC from no…
Anthropic reported that its Project Glasswing initiative, launched in April to use its Mythos AI model for identifying software vulnerabilities, has detected 23,000 potential flaws across 1,000 open-s…
Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm that carries its own large language model and runs it on compromised computers. The worm represents the closest realization yet of the self-repl…
Hackers are exploiting Meta’s AI support chatbot to hijack Instagram accounts by tricking the bot into adding a new email address and resetting the password. A video posted on X demonstrated the proce…
Researchers are deploying machine learning algorithms to break historical pencil-and-paper ciphers used in medieval plots, love letters, and diplomatic correspondence. The AI-driven decryption is unlo…
Bruce Schneier, a renowned technologist and author, warned in a June 20, 2010 column that cryptography is fundamentally unable to secure modern networks against threats like denial-of-service attacks,…
Frontier AI models can now autonomously identify exploitable software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale, exposing decades of technical debt from an industry that prioritized rapid deplo…
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) is called upon to implement regulations for squid fishing in the South Pacific. The article highlights the need for management mea…
A contractor for the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository until recently that exposed credentials for highly privileged AWS GovCloud account…
The article discusses how Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) on M5 hardware, a hardware-assisted mitigation, was bypassed by a small team using an AI system called Mythos Preview to develop a …
AI security cannot be effectively measured through benchmarks alone, as benchmarks fail to accurately assess AI capabilities, particularly complex properties like security. Instead, it suggests that A…
Laurie Anderson includes a quote from an unnamed cryptologist on her new album and in interviews, stating, "If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you do…