New York City to ban children’s use of GenAI tools in school
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani has imposed a city-wide moratorium on student-facing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for the next 12 months, which will affect almost 600,000…
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Financial firms face ‘vulnerability bottlenecks’ from frontier AI
Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is uncovering security vulnerabilities at a faster rate than financial companies can patch them, creating “vulnerability bottlenecks”, the UK financial regulator…
Mythos helps bug bounty firm find critical hidden RCE
Bug bounty programme operator HackerOne has revealed it has patched a dangerous remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its production environment that it would likely…
UK airport hackers leak stolen customer data
FulcrumSec, the threat actor that earlier laid claim to the late-August breach of IT systems owned by Manchester Airports Group (MAG), has made public half…
When the intern has admin rights: GDPR in the agentic age
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was built for a world where personal data was easier to govern. You could map where it came from,…
Lords considers government emergency AI kill switch
An amendment to the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, currently passing through the House of Lords, proposes giving the government “last resort” powers to…
The road to digital tyranny: when AI acts autonomously
For most of the history of artificial intelligence, the direction of travel has been clear. We have tried to make machines more capable, more independent…
AWS sets 2026 opening date for Saudi cloud region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled a series of investments and partnerships in Saudi Arabia during LEAP 2026, reinforcing its commitment to the Kingdom’s rapidly…
Datacentre water use: Not so simple a picture as often painted
Calls to halt new datacentres often focus on tales of their gargantuan appetite for water and electricity. Such arguments are magnified in current conditions. Drought was…
AI has exposed the cracks GDPR was already trying to fix
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) predates the commercial availability of large language models by several years. It forced organisations to answer questions most of…
The loop nobody’s checking the size of
AI is now doing a growing share of the frontline work inside security operations, triaging alerts, correlating signals across systems, drafting the first read on…
The Next AI Breakthrough Won’t Be a Bigger Model
For the past five years, the AI industry has pursued a remarkably simple strategy: build a bigger model. More parameters. More data. More GPUs. The…