If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern — it’s front and center, woven into almost every major story of the year. Yes, wars are still raging, the climate keeps worsening, and we’re seemingly one dodgy sneeze away from the next global pandemic. But running beneath all of it...Read More
Meccha Chameleon, the biggest Steam indie hit of 2026 by quite a large margin, has reportedly already sold over 15 million copies. Unfortunately, some of those 15 million players may want to run a virus scan at some point in the immediate future, as the developers behind the game have confirmed an independent report that...Read More
FILE – The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone in front of an image generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption toggle caption Michael Dwyer/AP ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the “unprecedented cyber incident” that led its artificial intelligence systems to break...Read More
This event is the latest in a string of worrying and weird examples of AI agents going rogue. In recent research, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) found frontier AI models are so fixated on completing tasks they “cheated” in tests to achieve their goals. The research from AISI came with this worrying warning: “A...Read More
Prince Harry and six other prominent figures are facing a legal bill of up to £50m after losing their case against the publisher of the Daily Mail over claims it used unlawful methods to source stories. In an emphatic ruling that is likely to signal an end to new litigation relating to the phone-hacking scandal...Read More
OpenAI has revealed that an autonomous AI agent powered by its technology went rogue during a test, accessed the open web and hacked a prominent startup by itself in an “unprecedented incident”. The company behind ChatGPT said the startup Hugging Face had detected and contained the agent – an AI tool designed to carry out...Read More
Quick Read Coca-Cola (KO) disclosed a ransomware attack suspended Fairlife’s U.S. production with no restoration timeline, threatening grocery shelf availability nationwide. Past food and beverage ransomware attacks on Arizona Beverages and UNFI caused weeks of empty shelves, and Fairlife has few protein dairy substitutes. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named...Read More
An artificial intelligence went rogue last week, broke out of its containment before successfully hacking another company, its developer has claimed. According to artificial intelligence developer OpenAI, one of its experimental models broke out of its isolated testing space by accessing the internet and then hacking into the New York based company, Hugging Face. OpenAI...Read More
Late last week, Hugging Face, an AI software repository, suffered a cyber attack run entirely by an autonomous AI. Then, early this week, OpenAI discovered that two of its own models were in fact the guilty party. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Sol and another, undisclosed AI model were being tested behind the scenes at OpenAI...Read More
OpenAI said Tuesday that two of its AI models autonomously hacked their way out of a controlled environment where they were supposed to be walled off from internet access and then hacked their way into the systems of Hugging Face, a company that hosts open source AI models and testing resources, in order to cheat...Read More
