IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health In brief As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game AI + ML24 Jan 2022 | 10
North Korea pulled in $400m in cryptocurrency heists last year – report In brief Plus: FIFA 22 players lose their identity and Texas gets phony QR codes Security16 Jan 2022 | 28
Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents In brief Plus: AI systems can identify different chess players by their moves and more AI + ML15 Jan 2022 | 104
Is VPOTUS Bluetooth-phobic or sensible? The answer's pretty clear In Brief Plus: bugs found on Mars! Of the software kind, of course Security13 Dec 2021 | 29
Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI In brief Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat lung disease reaches human clinical trials and more AI + ML04 Dec 2021 | 54
Will they try it for 30 days first? McAfee goes private again in $14bn cash deal In brief Plus: Uncle Sam gets tough on patching, NIST needs you, and more Security08 Nov 2021 | 3
Android has its head in the sand with AbstractEmu malware rooting phones In Brief Plus Microsoft funding community security to fill US skills gap Security01 Nov 2021 | 8
If you're using this hijacked NPM library anywhere in your software stack, read this In brief US govt issues alert over JS package downloaded 8m times a week – plus more news from world of infosec Security25 Oct 2021 | 15
NFTs not annoying enough? Now they come with wallet-emptying malware In brief Plus rifle-toting robot dogs, but makers insist they're really dumb Security17 Oct 2021 | 18
Brewdog might make an OK pint but its security sucks: Flaw opened door to free beers for anyone In brief Plus two failings this week at Apache and Twitch and nostalgia for Flash fans Security11 Oct 2021 | 19
Clearview CEO doubles down, claims biz has now scraped over ten billion social media selfies for surveillance In brief Plus: DeepMind makes its first profit... by selling to its stablemates AI + ML09 Oct 2021 | 25
Lawsuit claims hospital ransomware infection cost baby her life In Brief Plus: 2 Chrome flaws exploited, Coinbase says 6k users were robbed Security04 Oct 2021 | 16
Emails, chat logs, more leaked online from far-right militia linked to US Capitol riot In brief Plus: Other infosec news from this month Security28 Sep 2021 | 4
Report: Microsoft and AWS scored $50m in contracts after Google pulled out of Pentagon's AI drone plan In Brief Plus: Smart software ugrade means Roomba can recognise dog poo AI + ML13 Sep 2021 | 2
US officials, experts fear China ransacked Exchange servers for data to train AI systems In brief Plus: T-Mobile US apologizes, security holes found in medical pumps, and more Security31 Aug 2021 | 6
Leaked: List of police, govt, uni orgs in Clearview AI's facial-recognition trials In brief Plus: Mortgage algorithm bias, and an AI-guided play comes to London AI + ML29 Aug 2021 | 17
T-Mobile US probes claims of 100m stolen customer records up for sale on dark web In brief Confirms unauthorized access to 'some T-Mobile data.' Plus: Signal expands auto-deleting messages, SIM-swap thief pleads guilty, and more Security16 Aug 2021 | 7
Black Hat security conference returns to Las Vegas – complete with hacks to quiet the hotel guest from hell In Brief And a very scary story of a job that went from white hat to murky shades of gray in the United Arab Emirates Security09 Aug 2021 | 8
Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub In brief Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more Security02 Aug 2021 | 25
DEF CON offers beginner-level Spot the Fed this year: He'll be on stage giving a keynote In brief Plus: Microsoft responds to another NTLM relay attack technique, and more Security26 Jul 2021 | 5
Cloudstar – IT provider for real estate, finance, insurance worlds – downed by ransomware In Brief Plus: Telegram security probed, CISA boss confirmed, and more Security19 Jul 2021 | 5
With a straight face, Putin agrees to do something about ransomware coming out of Russia, apparently In brief Plus: Beware bogus crypto-mining phone apps, and more Security12 Jul 2021 | 39
Uncle Sam sanctions Chinese AI outfits for links to Xinjiang Uyghur human-rights abuses In Brief Plus: A tool that automatically shames politicians distracted by their phones during official business AI + ML10 Jul 2021 | 24
IT management biz Kaseya's VSA abused to infect businesses with ransomware In brief Plus: Cops seize 3D printers 'used to print guns', and more bits and bytes Security03 Jul 2021 | 34
Graphcore's AI chips may not be as powerful as Nvidia's GPUs, but may provide good bang for your buck In brief Plus: SoftBank halts Pepper the robot production AI + ML03 Jul 2021 | 9
SolarWinds backdoor gang pwns Microsoft support agent to turn sights on customers In brief Plus: Amazon gobbles Wickr, automakers cough to privacy blunders, and more Security26 Jun 2021 | 4
Ex-NSA bigwig Chris Inglis appointed America's national cyber director by Senate In brief Plus: Impact of ransomware payments, CVS database not secured Security21 Jun 2021 | 5
Mayflower, the AI ship sent to sail from the UK to the US with no humans, made it three days before breaking down In brief Plus: Canon has cameras that only let employees into meeting rooms if they smile, and more AI + ML19 Jun 2021 | 79
When security gets physical: Mossad boss hints at less-than-subtle Stuxnet followup In brief Plus: Alleged Trickbot developer cuffed by US agents Security15 Jun 2021 | 12
Google, Facebook, Chaos Computer Club join forces to oppose German state spyware In brief Plus: FBI boss says ransomware is terrorism 2.0, and more Security07 Jun 2021 | 11
Have I Been Pwned goes open source, bags help from FBI In brief Plus: More Rowhammer research, Feds warn of Fortinet attacks, etc Security01 Jun 2021 | 10
US cities and towns purchase AI surveillance kit linked to China's Uyghur abuse In brief Plus: Ex-OpenAI employees launch machine-learning research org AI + ML31 May 2021 | 11
American insurance giant CNA reportedly pays $40m to ransomware crooks In brief Plus: Stalkerware even more scummy and ExifTool needs patching Security22 May 2021 | 35
Eufycam Wi-Fi security cameras streamed video feeds from other people's homes In brief Plus: Biden's order on security, US govt acquiring data on citizens, and more Security17 May 2021 | 8
Uncle Sam wants 'ethical hackers' to crack its planetary defenses, but don't expect a pay-day from this bug bounty In brief Plus: Student cripples EU bio lab and IRS goes after cryptocurrency Security10 May 2021 | 24
Apple patches iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, kitchen-sinkOS bugs said to be exploited in the wild In Brief Plus: Micro-op CPU caches abused to leak data, and more Security04 May 2021 | 19
More than 1,000 humans fail to beat AI contender in top crossword battle In brief Plus: Deepfake satellite images and Google fails to cite relevant research in its own large language model paper AI + ML01 May 2021 | 27
Homebrew fixes Cask repo GitHub Actions bug that would have let anyone sneak malicious code onto machines In Brief Plus: America creates task force to tackle ransomware crims Security26 Apr 2021 | 2
Banks across America test facial recognition cameras 'to spy on staff, customers' In brief Plus: Enormo AI chip gets an upgrade, and more AI + ML24 Apr 2021 | 44
Sysadmin for FIN7 criminal cracking group gets 10 years in US prison for managing card slurping malware scam In Brief Plus Pwn2Own faces fire and update Chrome immediately Security19 Apr 2021 | 3
Seeing a robot dog tagging along with NYPD officers after an arrest stuns New Yorkers In brief Plus: 'First civil lawsuit' against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more AI + ML17 Apr 2021 | 72
Clearview AI accused over free trials to US police that were plausibly deniable In Brief Plus: Another Google AI boffin resigns and AI tries to recreate music from famous musicians who died at 27 AI + ML12 Apr 2021 | 7
Twitter nukes AI-generated twits who backed Amazon and pushed anti-union rhetoric In Brief Plus: Waymo CEO is standing down, Volvo is partnering with a self-driving startup to stay relevant AI + ML06 Apr 2021 | 20
'Anomalous surge in DNS queries' knocked Microsoft's cloud off the web last week in Brief Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists Security06 Apr 2021 | 5
Machine learning devs, rejoice: You can now rent up to 16 Nvidia A100 GPUs on a single machine via Google In brief Plus: Young female Japanese biker turns out to be boring 50-year-old uncle AI + ML22 Mar 2021 | 10
Teenage Twitter hijacker gets three years in the clink over celeb Bitcoin scamming In Brief Plus: Exchange and SolarWinds autopatch tools and shocking news! Security22 Mar 2021 | 10
Exchange flaws could be much worse than thought: Six hacking groups suspected of using the zero days pre-patch In brief Plus: Verkada flaw finder cuffed and Apple boss may have leaked secrets Security15 Mar 2021 | 11
How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs In brief Plus: Google Ethical AI team firings backlash worsens AI + ML13 Mar 2021 | 27
Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons In brief Plus: AI Index 2021 report takeaways, Chocolate Factory banished from top ethics conference, and more AI + ML08 Mar 2021 | 40
SolarWinds just keeps getting worse: New strain of backdoor malware found in probe In brief Plus: McAfee's in serious trouble over claimed cryptocurrency scam Security08 Mar 2021 | 23
Mobile spyware fan Saudi Crown Prince accused by US intel of Khashoggi death In Brief Plus: Critical Cisco flaw, NSA advice, and someone hacked Gab? Security01 Mar 2021 | 21
Brave browser leaks visited Tor .onion addresses in DNS traffic, fix released after bug hunter raises alarm In brief Plus: IBM's lawyers hacked, Kia denies ransomware hit, France declares war on hackers, and more Security22 Feb 2021 | 12
Let's Encrypt completes huge upgrade, can now rip and replace 200 million security certs in 'worst case scenario' In brief Plus: SentinelOne picks up Scalyr, fatal flaws in TCP, and a view on Supermicro Security15 Feb 2021 | 22
Hacked by SolarWinds backdoor masterminds, Mimecast now lays off staff after profit surge In brief Plus: British Mensa in data leak blunder, DARPA are Star Wars fans, Sonicwall patch out, and more Security07 Feb 2021 | 15
Countless emails wrongly blocked as spam after Cisco's SpamCop failed to renew domain name at the weekend In brief Plus: Second ransomware operation in the sights of Uncle Sam – and the insurance industry under fire for fueling extortionware rise Security01 Feb 2021 | 7
Hallowed Bugtraq infosec list killed then resurrected over the weekend: We heard your feedback, says Accenture In brief Plus: Watch out for NTFS-corrupting folder, Mimecast hack, and more Security18 Jan 2021 | 8
SolarWinds takes a leaf out of Zoom's book, hires A-Team of Stamos and Krebs to sort out its security woes In Brief The week's other security news Security11 Jan 2021 | 9
SolarWinds releases known attack timeline, new data suggests hackers may have done a dummy run last year In brief And SS7 telco hack rears its ugly head yet again Security21 Dec 2020 | 20
You can be my wingbot any time – US military successfully runs AI system on spy plane Plus: Video of drone swarm formation flying through a forest AI + ML20 Dec 2020 | 27
Rogue ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences and cost Cisco millions gets two years in US prison In brief And the week's other security news Security12 Dec 2020 | 25
It's not just the economy and bad management messing with Kmart - ransomware crews are there too In Brief The week's other security news Security07 Dec 2020 | 13
US Air Force deploys robot security dogs to guard base In Brief Do they byte? Security23 Nov 2020 | 61