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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…
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America’s water systems are under attack. Iran may be to blame
A recent wave of cyberattacks on American water systems is raising alarm at all levels of government, with U.S. authorities reportedly suspecting Iran-linked hackers. The FBI reported Thursday that “malicious cyber actors” targeted water and wastewater utility companies in at least seven states over the prior four days, resulting in a “loss of monitoring and control functionality.” Officials in…
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Welp, Nobody Saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Crash Into the Moon
The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the Moon on Wednesday, in an event astronomers had prepared for but ultimately failed to capture on camera. Despite advance knowledge of the timing, no observatory managed to record a direct image or video of the impact flash, though scientists gathered indirect evidence confirming it…
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Security researcher HD Moore has revealed that thousands of Internet-connected servers from major manufacturers, including HPE, Supermicro, Huawei, Lenovo and Dell, can be remotely compromised through critical vulnerabilities in baseboard management controllers (BMCs), the small independent computers embedded in server motherboards. Presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, the research shows that…
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An off-grid AI sounds like a great survival assistant, but is better left to roleplaying the zombie apocalypse
An opinion piece in The Register argues that off-grid, locally run AI language models—while a fun novelty for zombie-apocalypse roleplay—would be a poor and potentially dangerous choice as a real-world survival tool. The author warns that marketing small local LLMs (running on devices like a Raspberry Pi or Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano) as bug-out-bag essentials…
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At His First Show In Georgia, Moby Talks About ‘Music’s Ability to Reach Everybody – And to Reach Them In the Most Personal Way’
Moby played his first-ever concert in Georgia on 30 July 2026, headlining a highly anticipated show at the Rustavi International Motorpark near Tbilisi. The event, organised by local promoter Flitz Collective with Billboard Georgia as media partner, marked a milestone for the electronic music pioneer, who is widely credited with helping bring the genre into…
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Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
Sir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind as part of a broader leadership overhaul at the AI research lab. He will become chair of DeepMind and take on a new role as chief scientist at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, while Koray Kavukcuoglu, DeepMind’s chief technology officer, takes over as its…
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Another Way To Play Big Walk Is Already In The Works
House House’s critically acclaimed co-op puzzle-solving game Big Walk has only been out for two days, but one modder is taking it upon themselves to add a new dimension to the gameplay. Independent solo developer CircuitLord has announced that they are developing a VR mod for Big Walk. A brief demonstration of the mod was…