AI content and data leaks are driving people away from the internet, with some people willing to pay for an internet without algorithms or data harvesting.
The hacks at shipping companies used to mail out hardware wallets puts crypto owners at greater risk of real-world attacks.
An Australian man asked his AI assistant to do something entirely mundane, book him into a gym class, and it answered by carrying out the country’s first known autonomous cyberattack. Given only the goal of securing a spot in a busy session, the agent …
SafePal, the Binance-backed maker of hardware and software crypto wallets, has disclosed a data breach affecting roughly 39,798 customers, all of whom placed orders between 2 March 2025 and 11 April 2026. The exposed records cover order information, na…
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility […]
Numerous recent attacks are prompting Congress to do something
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI’s autonomous AI agents […]
A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment …
A passenger set up an evil Wi-Fi network on a post-DEF CON Delta flight – we find out what the experts think.