A dystopian short film imagines 2036, where AI has taken over virtually all human employment and society is searching for a new purpose for people. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman are portrayed as ageing tech moguls promoting a bizarre solution: gyms that turn human sweat and physical effort into energy for AI. Through […]
NCP-ArchPreview introduces Next Concept Prediction (NCP), enabling language models to predict multi-token concepts alongside individual tokens. The 8.9B-parameter model was trained on 5.73 trillion tokens and reaches OLMo-3-7B’s final pretraining loss using only 51.3% of the training tokens. It achieves 1.95× faster convergence and improves downstream performance by 2.45 points, including a +5.99 gain on […]
The FBI’s new cyber strategy shifts the focus toward actively disrupting adversaries, dismantling infrastructure, seizing funds and imposing real costs on attackers. Four pillars drive the strategy: disrupt cyber adversaries, support victims, strengthen partnerships, and enhance the FBI’s own cyber capabilities. Rapid intelligence sharing and closer public-private cooperation should help organizations detect attacks earlier, contain […]
Following the publication of stolen data from Berlin’s administration, a central crisis unit led by the Chief Digital Officer has been established to coordinate the response. Police, cybersecurity authorities, data protection officials and affected government departments are jointly assessing the leaked information and potential risks. IT forensic investigations remain ongoing, with security-critical data and organisations […]
Republican leaders are turning against Flock Safety, the $8bn AI-surveillance company whose licence-plate cameras have spread across the US. Governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott have restricted Flock cameras or their funding, citing privacy risks, government overreach and documented misuse by law enforcement. The cameras can create a searchable record of vehicle movements, while newer […]
Flock Safety allows police to continuously search camera footage using AI for individuals matching a written description, such as clothing, color, or objects. WIRED reconstructed the interface and found that officers can geofence areas and receive automatic alerts as soon as the AI detects a potential match. Although Flock is introducing new controls, such as […]
Around 241,000 Uber drivers across Europe and the UK are represented in a landmark collective action filed in Amsterdam over AI-driven pay and job allocation. Drivers allege Uber’s opaque algorithm profiles their behaviour to determine the lowest fare an individual driver may accept, potentially offering different pay for the same trip. The lawsuit claims this […]
The FBI warns of highly targeted OAuth consent phishing attacks aimed at prominent figures, their families, and acquaintances. Attackers impersonate government officials, media personnel, or known contacts, luring victims with fake file shares or meeting invitations. Granting permission to a malicious OAuth application gives attackers long-term access to emails, files, and other sensitive account data. […]
DIDAS warns that age verification alone cannot solve harmful content, addictive design, profiling or commercial exploitation of children online. Where verification is necessary, it should reveal only what is required, such as a simple “over/under age threshold”, without exposing identity, birth date or biometrics. DIDAS proposes six principles: privacy by design/default, unlinkability, data minimisation, open-source […]
97% of S&P 500 companies mention AI in their annual filings, but only around 1 in 5 document a process for managing AI-related cyber risk. Even more striking: fewer than 4% describe a genuinely governed process with clear accountability and controls. Guardrail Technologies found a 77-percentage-point gap between talking about AI and demonstrating how its […]