By Jocelyn Wiener, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Even a decade ago, the horror stories behind some of the 13 children’s online protection bills Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Thursday seemed the stuff of fiction. An AI chatbot coaching a teenager to isolate himself from friends...Read More
Blockstream is refusing to pay the Liquid attacker nearly 600 Bitcoin (roughly $50 million), escalating a dispute over how the crypto industry should reward partial restitution. The standoff follows an unusual recovery from the Sept. 6 exploit, when a vulnerability allowed the attacker to create about 4,000 unbacked L-BTC and withdraw roughly 3,996 real BTC through...Read More
Sometime in late 2024, enterprise AI crossed a line. Engineering teams began wiring language models to tools: file systems, APIs, email inboxes, databases. These weren’t chatbots, they were agents; systems that act, plan, delegate, and remember, often without waiting for human input between steps. That transition happened faster than most security organizations could track. And...Read More
Enterprise AI governance is running into a timing problem. Policies, inventories and post-event audit logs are useful, but autonomous agents can call tools, modify data, send messages or trigger workflows before a human reviewer ever sees the event. That gap is becoming harder to ignore as Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption pushes agents deeper into...Read More
CHANTILLY, Va.—Pavion has acquired Communication Company, a technology solutions provider serving the Midwest, in a move designed to expand the systems integrator’s regional footprint and strengthen its capabilities in fire, life safety, security and critical communications. Founded in 1976, Communication Company has spent nearly five decades providing system design, installation and service for healthcare, education and commercial customers. “Communication Company has built...Read More
Matthews said his original proposal was never intended to replace police officers but that he had wanted to replicate a pilot scheme run in Melton Mowbray in 2025. The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) said 16 PCSOs were being recruited in the autumn and 10 of them would be used for the...Read More
In today’s Tech Bites, California now has implemented a new set of laws aimed at protecting children from the risks linked to Artificial Intelligence and social media. The new laws will restrict how minors can interact with chatbots and will ban addictive feeds. Companies in violation could face penalties. A Universal Music Group is entering...Read More
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s extradition of six Nigerian nationals to the US shows its cybercrime laws in action. The Hawks and Interpol apprehended the group for alleged involvement in an online love scam where dozens of US women were defrauded of more than R100 million. One expert warns that while the laws exist,...Read More
ChatGPT maker OpenAI confirmed on Friday that autonomous software built on its models targeted another website during testing a couple of months before a separate attack on the coding site Hugging Face. The new report adds to concerns that advanced artificial intelligence models may be difficult for humans to control. In the newest incident, which...Read More
OpenAI is reportedly open to slowing down the development of its most advanced artificial intelligence systems, according to Bloomberg. Sam Altman is said to have discussed this possibility with staff, and the plan is reportedly to involve other laboratories as well. However, this is not a formal decision, nor is there any indication that a...Read More
