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London Heathrow Terminal 5, the home of British Airways. Looking down on the runways and bays of BA planes. Strike action may cause them to be grounded during summer 2019.
2,000 UK flight cancellations caused by ‘previously unknown defect’ that happened in the ‘space of a millisecond’ — travel chaos took days to fix and left hundreds of thousands stranded

By Benedict Collins Published

A report from Nats found that the disruption stemmed from a manual request for a squawk code that was corrupted during processing.

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FBI confirms two Texas-bound oil tankers hit by hackers who disabled coms and put the engines into overdrive — and Iran is possibly to blame

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

The FBI had to board at least one of the vessels to investigate the incident.

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US inherits Venezuelan surveillance state built on banned Chinese tech and AI — and it shows no signs of switching

By Benedict Collins Published

Venezuela's surveillance network is built on Chinese tech, and the new president wanted Chinese AI implemented as well.

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Electrical pylons and high voltage power lines are behind a barbed wire fence. critical infrastructure
Bill to make AI data centers pay for power grid upgrades reaches critical milestone

By Craig Hale Published

States could soon enforce the Ratepayer Protection Act to force 100MW+ data center operators to pick up the grid upgrade costs.

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A 3d rendering of "sweet returns" or "liquid gold," the combination of the honey (the lure) and the coins (the asset) is a classic visual metaphor for a honeypot scam.
CISA urges business to deploy decoys, lures, and honeypots to catch hackers in the act

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

ZTNA is great, but it can be even better with a little honeypot, CISA advises.

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Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions

By Craig Hale Published

The AI Energy Management Alliance wants to lay the framework for how future data centers can use energy more sympathetically with the grid.

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AI watermarking could make LLM guardrail adherence unpredictable — and that could be a big problem for the EU AI Act

By Craig Hale Published

Researchers have revealed how AI watermarking could actually change how an LLM behaves, making it less secure.

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Keep seeing strange meetings and events in your calendar? It might be because calendar-based phishing has jumped 33,000% since May — and they work even if the email is sent to spam

By Sead Fadilpašić Published

ICS phishing has finally "hit the mainstream" as it keeps rising in popularity month over month.

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White hat hackers just breached OpenAI using Anthropic's Claude in less than 72 hours — and it is a case study in just how fast AI is advancing

By Benedict Collins Published

The researchers struggled to abuse the exploit with an AI agent on Opus 4.8, but the release of Opus 5 changed everything.

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Microsoft exec said AI scraping was ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ lawsuit filings reveal

By Craig Hale Published

NYT and countless other publications impacted by AI scraping and dropping click-throughs, but Trump seems to support it.

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