We now know the scale of last week’s incident as Meta reports it to the Maine AG.
In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco…
A bug in a third-party system was leveraged to steal emails on a yet undisclosed number of people.
In May, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first known case of an AI system discovering and weaponising a zero-day exploit that was then deployed in the wild. A criminal actor used a frontier model to find a two-factor authentication bypa…
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum on Friday ordering the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of cutting-edge AI. The directive, NSPM-11, establishes a framework for “rapid onboarding of th…
OpenAI has begun rolling out Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT, a new security setting designed to block attackers from stealing data through prompt injection attacks. The feature disables live web browsing, agent mode, deep research, image retrieval, Canvas ne…
The 2026 World Cup kicks off next week across 16 cities in the US, Mexico, and Canada. It is the largest in history: 48 teams, 104 matches, 39 days. It is also the most technologically surveilled sporting event ever staged, with robot dogs, net-shootin…
When it comes to AI security, convenience and protection rarely sit at the same table. OpenAI’s new Lockdown Mode is proof of that.
Even with Lockdown Mode, ChatGPT could be still vulnerable to prompt injections, but the goal is to reduce the likelihood that sensitive data gets shared in the process.