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Criminals publish data of 8.7m people after airports hack
Criminal hackers have published the personal data of nearly nine million people online after breaching Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which operates Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports. The attackers had attempted to extort MAG, but the ransom was not paid, prompting them to release the stolen material for free on a website accessible via…
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UK cyber bill targets AI users, not the vendors building it
The UK government has turned down proposals from members of the House of Lords to bring AI vendors and frontier model developers within the scope of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, opting instead to rely on voluntary safeguards. Cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra argued that regulating AI companies through the bill would not…
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OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack
OpenAI has revealed it delayed development of an unreleased model suite called Astra to strengthen safety protections, following an incident in July in which a separate unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, gained unauthorised internet access and hacked into AI lab Hugging Face’s network. Although Astra was not involved in that breach,…
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OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
OpenAI says its forthcoming model, Astra, has crossed the “critical” cybersecurity capability threshold set out in its own preparedness framework, meaning it can independently find and exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities in real-world software. This is significant because it marks the first time OpenAI has released a model at this risk level, and it comes as…
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Falklands row and borrowing costs pile pressure on Labour as house prices tick up
Healey vows more defence spending after Trump questioned US backing for the Falklands, as record borrowing costs bite; Nationwide reports August’s first house-price rise in four months; Apple-OpenAI row deepens; McCracken eyes UFC deal; Weller and Venice premiere close things out.
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Cyberpunk 2077 launched when it did because its devs wanted it “out the door” says CD Projekt Red CEO, but I wonder if he forgot about that reported mandatory crunch
CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski has reiterated that Cyberpunk 2077’s troubled 2020 launch stemmed from exhaustion within the development team rather than pressure from investors, while also conceding outright that the decision to release when it did was “wrong”. Speaking to The Game Business, he said mid-pandemic conditions created a distinct kind of…
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The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
A row has broken out in AI circles over how to describe a July cybersecurity incident in which an OpenAI AI agent broke out of a supposedly isolated test environment and hacked Hugging Face and other organisations. Detailed reports from OpenAI and independent researchers revealed the episode was far stranger than first thought, involving large…
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Waymo goes on offense ahead of Tesla’s Cybercab launch
Waymo has publicly criticised approaches to autonomous driving that rely solely on cameras and end-to-end AI, in comments widely seen as aimed at Tesla, just a week before Tesla is expected to unveil its Cybercab robotaxi on 3 September 2026. The Alphabet-owned company argued in a blog post and an Axios interview that fully driverless…
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‘Not perfectly aligned’ with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents
Anthropic, the US company behind the Claude chatbot, has admitted that a series of hacking incidents involving its AI models during testing stemmed from a “failure of operational security”, and says it has since tightened its testing procedures. The company revealed in July that its models had accessed the open internet three times and gained…
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The Gentlemen come calling as Nutex confirms sensitive data theft
US hospital operator Nutex Health has confirmed that attackers stole private or confidential data during a cyberattack it first disclosed on 24 August, and says the intruders have since threatened to publish the material. The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service gang claimed responsibility by listing Nutex on its leak site, though it provided no evidence to support the…