Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-wei…

AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door
AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door

AI has learned to find software bugs faster than people can, and the programmes that pay for them are straining. In a single week, the three biggest went three different ways. Microsoft paid out a record sum. Apple slammed the door on how many bugs a r…

Microsoft 365 users hit by phishing scheme posing as RingCentral emails

Operators of the Greatness PhaaS scam are targeting Microsoft 365 accounts by spoofing RingCentral.

New ChainDrop worm poisons over 1,300 npm packages, Keyv and Cacheable among those hit

Another Shai-Hulud variant hits npm packages, worming its way into hundreds of packages.

UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab
UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

Britain’s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person into running malicious code. The findings come from red…

Watch out — Microsoft login pages are being abused as hackers try and lure in unlucky victims, here’s what to look out for

No passwords were stolen, and MFA never came into it; they walked away with access to mail, files, Teams, SharePoint, and calendars across around 120 organizations.

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users’ location data when they grant permission to the app. 

Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.