Tag: Computing
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One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack | John Naughton
On Good Friday, a Microsoft engineer named Andres Freund noticed something peculiar. He was using a software tool called SSH for securely …
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‘Many-shot jailbreaking’: AI lab describes how tools’ safety features can be bypassed
But AI systems often work better – in any task – when they are given examples of the “correct” thing to do. And it turns out if you …
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AI will make scam emails look genuine, UK cybersecurity agency warns
Artificial intelligence will make it difficult to spot whether emails are genuine or sent by scammers and malicious actors, including …
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Techscape: The biggest tech stories of 2023 – from cyber warfare to AI’s ‘existential risk’
The Guardian has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack in December and that the personal data of UK staff members has been accessed …
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The biggest tech stories of 2023 – from cyber warfare to AI’s ‘existential risk’
The Guardian has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack in December and that the personal data of UK staff members has been accessed …
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AI firms must be held responsible for harm they cause, ‘godfathers’ of technology say
Powerful artificial intelligence systems threaten social stability and AI companies must be made liable for harms caused by their products, …
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No 10 worried AI could be used to create advanced weapons that escape human control
Concerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of …
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No 10 increasingly concerned AI could be used to create bioweapons
Concerns that criminals or terrorists could use artificial intelligence to cause mass destruction will dominate discussion at a summit of …
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AI could have bigger impact on UK than Industrial Revolution, says Dowden
Artificial intelligence could have a more significant impact on Britain than the Industrial Revolution, the deputy prime minister has said, …
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AI can identify passwords by sound of keys being pressed, study suggests
Tapping in a computer password while chatting over Zoom could open the door to a cyber-attack, research suggests, after a study revealed …
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Imagine your child calling for money. Except it’s not them – it’s an AI scam | James Wise
From data breaches to phishing attacks, where fraudsters trick people into sharing passwords or sending money to an unknown account, …
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‘It could be taken down by an enthusiastic child’: Whitehall wide open to cyber-attack, warn campaigners
The use of “legacy” servers and databases has been uncovered through freedom of information (FoI) requests from the low-tax pressure …
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