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Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
Brit mathematician lets AI agent loose with credit card – cue password leaks, CAPTCHA chaos and more
British mathematician Professor Hannah Fry has shared a cautionary experiment involving an AI agent, a set of tasks, and a bank card number Fry's team gave it "to show us what it could do."…
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday
Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal
Vodafone dials up full control of joint venture with Three in £4.3B deal
Vodafone has struck a deal to take full ownership of VodafoneThree, the mobile network formed from last year's merger of its British operations with Three, in a move designed to accelerate its UK ambitions.…
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area
Unexpected item in Windows' bagging area
Bork!Bork!Bork! Things must be tough for UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's, judging by the state of Windows Activation on one of its self-service kiosks.…
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
Microsoft's bad obsession is showing up in shabby services and slipshod software. Here's proof
Opinion It's been another shabby week for Microsoft, and a shabbier one for its users. We learnt that Windows 11's epic habit of trying to corral customers into paid-for Microsoft services just got worse with a low-rent trick. Remote Desktop got a bit more secure, which is good, but in a way that suggests not too much user testing took place. As for GitHub… GitHub got two helpings of Chef Redmondo's Special Sauce.…
Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release
Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0 just 11 years after last major release
Antiques Code Show Admirers of Roguelike games have a new distraction: Version 5.0 of NetHack dropped last weekend.…
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice.…
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation
Academics from Singapore and China have found a way to make AI useful for cyber-defenders, by creating a technique that translates rules from diverse Security Information and Event Managements (SIEMs) so they’re easier to consume across multiple systems.…
Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us'
The Iran War has been great for business at Palantir, as the Department of Defense has doubled usage of the company’s Maven targeting system in four months.…