Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs
Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs

Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Business last week. Defenders will need a new kind of shield, he said, built w…

PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix
PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix

PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix. In a short advisory on 23 October, PHP said the new bug, CVE-2026-11556…

Microsoft Teams will soon use AI to warn you of sneaky phishing scams
Microsoft Teams will soon use AI to warn you of sneaky phishing scams

Microsoft Teams is adding AI-powered phishing detection to help keep you safe from threats.

Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer
Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer

Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Friday. Each published its own analysis of the incident, which happened during…

FBI tip line and veterans crisis site among 350 federal web addresses exposing visitors to network spies, senator warns

350 federal web addresses, including the FBI tip line and a veterans crisis service, let network snoops see who visits.

1Password will now let AI agents log in to accounts for you without ever needing to see your password
1Password will now let AI agents log in to accounts for you without ever needing to see your password

Fed up of typing your login details in when AI is meant to be doing the work for you? 1Password now shares passwords securely.

Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor
Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor

AI agents at OpenAI could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from the OpenAI monitoring system, outside evaluators found. That exploit was one of several flaws the safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research reported on Thursday. Each group sent…

Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

The moment you realize the internet is “held together by glue and dreams.”