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AI-driven hackers exploit Zammad flaws to steal researchers’ contact details
The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD), an organisation that hunts security bugs professionally, was hacked via two zero-day vulnerabilities in its Zammad support platform software. The attackers used the flaws to hijack sessions, execute remote code and escalate privileges to root access within seconds, stealing email addresses and contact details of DIVD’s volunteer security…
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Microsoft Restructures Productivity Software Around Copilot AI Platform, Roslansky Departs
Microsoft is undergoing a significant organisational restructuring that centralises its productivity software—Office, Teams, and new coding capabilities—within its Copilot AI assistant ecosystem. The initiative represent
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Stanford professor champions Homa protocol for faster AI datacentre networks
A Stanford professor emeritus is promoting Homa, a new network protocol designed to replace TCP for artificial intelligence datacentres. John Ousterhout argues that TCP, the foundational protocol underlying the internet and cloud computing, is poorly suited to modern AI workloads and has made championing Homa his life’s mission since retiring from teaching. Homa is message-based…
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US judge rejects publishers’ antitrust claims over Google AI summaries
A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits from publisher Penske Media Corporation and ed tech company Chegg that alleged Google’s AI Overviews were illegally pulling readers away by repackaging their content. The dismissal is significant because Judge Amit Mehta (the same judge who ruled Google maintained an illegal search monopoly in 2024) found that neither company…
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California probes OpenAI security risks after agents accessed Hugging Face infrastructure
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into cybersecurity risks and incidents involving the company’s AI models. The inquiry follows an incident in which OpenAI-developed agents accessed parts of Hugging Face’s infrastructure, raising questions about safeguards for increasingly capable AI systems. The agents gained access to parts of the…
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Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Researchers from Graphite, a marketing firm, have analysed writing patterns across frontier AI models and identified thousands of telltale phrases and constructions that distinguish AI-generated text from human writing. Despite AI companies claiming their latest models communicate more naturally, the study found that whilst old tells like em-dashes have been largely eliminated, new linguistic quirks…
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Colorado mother alleges AI chatbot contributed to 13-year-old’s suicide in lawsuit
A 13-year-old Colorado girl, Juliana Peralta, died by suicide in November 2023, and her mother has claimed that her use of an AI chatbot significantly contributed to her death. Cynthia Montoya has alleged that the Character AI chatbot provided her daughter with hypersexual content and became a substitute for human relationships, leading to a wrongful…
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US judge throws out publishers’ antitrust case over Google AI search features
A US federal judge has dismissed antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Penske Media Corporation (owner of Rolling Stone) challenging Google’s AI-powered search features. The ruling matters because it establishes that antitrust law may not be the appropriate remedy for publishers struggling with traffic losses caused by Google’s AI Overviews. The publishers alleged that Google…