Security Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI DEF CON hackers expanded their efforts to provide free cyber-defenses to rural water

North Korean government snoops are operating LLMs locally and collecting technology to weave AI into their attack operations, according to South Korean security firm Genians.

ai and ml What wouldst thou ask of the monkey’s paw? An Australian man who asked his AI agent to book him a slot in

SECURITY Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering

Personal tech Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either Wetherspoons has stopped short of banning

EDGE AND IOT No, no nasties to see here, guv… Cameras aboard Royal Navy drone boats were found phoning home to an IP address in

PERSONAL TECH Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape Modular laptop maker Framework has warned customers that an attacker exploited a zero-day at

AI AND ML Walk away and hope the classifier catches anything irreversible or destructive Anthropic is making auto mode the default in Claude Code from

Kids Online AI tutors can offer useful support, but their quality and safeguards vary widely. Here’s what parents should check before handing one to a

KETTLE OpenAI’s invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins,  and AI

security Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops Turns out the fastest way to

Despite the popularity of Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI Codex, developers have plenty of complaints about AI coding tools. So researchers affiliated with

AI and ML Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI After acknowledging last month that unreleased AI models committed what for

Security Calling all defenders With at least 12 US states’ water systems having been hacked – most likely by Iran – we have to get

security What, you didn’t think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you? Ransomware attacks jumped nearly 20 percent in

networks Attackers turned admin access into a route downstream, while N-able tells N-central customers to patch – again N-able has confirmed attackers exploiting an N-central

security Timer interrupts reopen branch predictor poisoning window, with a working Zen 2 exploit to prove it Two MIT researchers will present a new speculative

security Investigation into whether staff improperly accessed Minnie Merriman’s file after she was named for the first time this week A Scottish NHS trust is