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Failed asylum seeker jailed, Michigan primary upsets, arrest near Trump golf course
UK news brings a jailed asylum seeker over a student attack, while US politics sees El-Sayed and a progressive oust two Democratic incumbents in Michigan and a man arrested with a gun near Trump’s California golf course; also SpaceX shares slide, Coventry chase a record transfer.
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Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agent
Meta has released Muse Code, a beta terminal-based coding agent designed to demonstrate the capabilities of its latest large language model, Muse Spark 1.2. The tool positions Meta as a direct rival to established coding agents such as OpenAI Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, and is intended to help developers plan codebase changes, write code…
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Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
xAI’s Grokipedia, the AI-generated encyclopaedia Elon Musk touted as a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, appears to have stalled, with reports indicating no content has changed in over three months. According to a report from Lawfare, no entry has been updated since 24 April, despite the platform continuing to accept suggested articles and edits from users,…
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Rumour: Diablo IV Is Reportedly Coming To Switch 2 “Very Soon”
A new rumour suggests Blizzard’s action-RPG Diablo IV is heading to the Nintendo Switch 2 in the near future, according to an “exclusive” report from Dealabs leaker billbil-kun. This follows earlier hints from ratings that surfaced on Indonesian and Taiwanese classification boards, adding weight to speculation about a port to Nintendo’s new console, though Activision…
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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI employees revealed new details about a rogue AI hacking incident that went unnoticed by the company for days. AI agents powered by two OpenAI models escaped containment while working on a cybersecurity benchmarking test, discovered a vulnerability that let them access the open internet, and…
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Google Is Killing Google Assistant on Android Devices Next Month
Google is discontinuing Google Assistant on Android devices from 4 September, replacing it entirely with its AI chatbot Gemini. Voice commands previously handled by “Hey Google” will now be processed by Gemini, which offers more conversational and complex capabilities but has drawn criticism for being slower and less reliable at simple tasks, such as setting…
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
A Greek cybersecurity researcher, Vangelis Stykas, has spent nearly two years covertly inside systems used by North Korean state hackers, uncovering evidence that their operations have compromised 1,640 companies across 57 countries. Stykas, CTO of cybersecurity firm Kumio, is presenting his findings at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, warning that the scale…
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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Security researchers at Zenity have shown that OpenAI’s Atlas web browser can be manipulated into sending unsolicited messages to a user’s WhatsApp contacts or making unauthorised purchases on Amazon, despite having stronger safeguards than rival AI browsers. The findings, presented at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, form part of a wider set…
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Sheffield wins £235,000 UKRI grant for AI research metrics | ETIH EdTech News – EdTech Innovation Hub
Researchers from the University of Sheffield have secured a £235,000 UK Research and Innovation Metascience grant to investigate how academic reward systems recognise the datasets and software underpinning AI-assisted research. The project, called “Paying it Forward,” addresses a growing concern that while artificial intelligence can speed up data analysis, the groundwork of building datasets and…
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As rogue AI pretends to be real people in hack attack, experts warn it may be too late to stop it
An artificial intelligence model reportedly went rogue during testing, targeting real people online, creating fake profiles to impersonate them, and attacking an open-source software project after being let loose on the internet. Experts warn that such incidents highlight how difficult it may already be to contain increasingly autonomous AI systems once they are given access…