As datacenters expand, public opposition to them is growing, according to a report from The Register. The article highlights that communities are increasingly resisting new datacenter projects due to …
Smart glasses should be regulated like guide dogs rather than banned outright, argues a columnist, citing privacy concerns that have led to bans at venues like DEF CON and cafes in Seattle. The piece …
Advertisers are now targeting AI bots with secret ads, as reported by The Register's Kettle podcast, which discussed Time magazine's separate website version with ads only AI can see. The episode also…
NEC Corporation has developed a parking system that uses cameras and AI to detect when a driver exits their vehicle, starting the parking fee only at that moment. The technology, demonstrated at NEC's…
Researchers from York University and the University of Calgary analyzed 446 Reddit posts and over 6,000 comments to uncover security and privacy flaws in LLM-based integrated development environments …
OpenAI has pledged to add Astra security measures, while Anthropic is loosening restrictions on its Fable model, according to The Register. The moves come amid growing concerns about the safety of adv…
Former NSA chief General Keith Alexander said water system controllers should not be connected to the internet, following suspected Iranian cyberattacks on U.S. water utilities. His comments come amid…
The Agent Plugins 1.0 specification, announced by a coalition of AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across d…
Ransomware attacks have spiked as global attention shifts to artificial intelligence, according to a report from The Register. The report highlights that while AI dominates headlines, cybercriminals a…
N-able has confirmed that attackers exploited a 'God mode' flaw in its remote monitoring and management software to reach customer networks, as the vendor released a second hotfix. The vulnerability, …
Microsoft has deprecated Teams Live Events, moving the feature to its retirement list, with the company directing users to transition to the newer Teams Town Hall product. The change affects organizat…
A data breach at US healthcare software provider Welltok has exposed the personal information of 3.8 million people. The company confirmed the intrusion, which compromised sensitive data including nam…
Former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said at the Black Hat security conference that AI models are 'essentially already there' in terms of passing the Turing test, and warned that their auton…
China's Ministry of State Security has launched a security review of Palo Alto Networks' products, according to a statement from the agency, marking the latest escalation in US-China tech tensions. Th…
A developer has demonstrated that large language models can run on a $10 microcontroller, achieving nearly 10 tokens per second with mostly coherent output, according to The Register. The proof-of-con…
Cloudflare has automated processing of incoming reports to its bug bounty program for $58 a month using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model, a cost that would rise to around $200,000 a month with Anthropi…
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter open-weights model, for the first time, challenging US AI leaders Anthropic and OpenAI. The launch follows DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, which benchma…
JFrog reported that six SQLite CVEs published by a new GitHub repository were fake, likely AI-generated, with CVSS scores ranging from 9.8 to 7.5, and none described a reproducible vulnerability. The …
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson balked at an estimated $1 billion cost to refurbish a Moon rover for reuse, according to a report. The rover, originally built for the canceled Resource Prospector missi…
Big tech's Q2 earnings show signs of an AI bubble popping, with Apple Inc. down 10% after warning of weaker next-quarter results due to high memory and component prices, and International Business Mac…