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WhatsApp is introducing new parental controls for teenagers, as tech companies continue to come under pressure to provide more age-appropriate experiences for children. The social messaging app’s new tools will give parents a range of options, such as being told when their child joins or leaves a group. It will also let them decide on … Read more
The Governor of the Bank of England has said regulating artificial intelligence (AI) “is not the right place to start” but instead called first for “rigorous” testing to find vulnerabilities and safeguards to contain risk. Writing his first-ever article for Substack, Andrew Bailey said the risks around AI were “real and increasingly significant”. Bailey said … Read more
But there’s a debate over what constitutes the best, and safest, sodium ion battery design. Plus, more than one, external US company working in this space has floundered in recent years, external. China leads the world in sodium ion battery manufacturing at present so US competitors are going to have to work hard to keep … Read more
Chinese AI developer Moonshot is conducting an internal review after researchers were able to persuade two of its popular Kimi models to tell them how to make biological weapons and carry out assassinations. Mindgard, which tests the security of AI systems, told the BBC it discovered in July that Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm could … Read more
Trump also reiterated his support for the rapid expansion of data centres – the crucial computing infrastructure that powers AI. The rollout of data centres has drawn pushback around the country over concerns about electricity usage and their potential impact on from communities. Data centre construction has also emerged as a potential political obstacle for … Read more
OpenAI has chosen to rename new versions of artificial intelligence tools widely known as agents. They are now being called “dots.” Company boss Sam Altman, speaking in San Francisco on Tuesday during OpenAI’s yearly event for technology developers, referred to “dots” as “remarkably capable, always-on agents that can handle really anything you can think of.” … Read more
Available for over a year Security researchers have got an AI model to break its own rules and give advice on terrorist attacks and assassinations. They talk to Tech Life about their findings. Plus, indie game developer Jonathan Blow on why he spent 10 years inventing his own coding language and game engine for his … Read more
Oura has pulled its plan to sell shares in its business on the US stock market, in a move which would have valued the firm at $15bn (£11.3bn), just days after announcing it. The maker of smart rings which track their owners’ health said it would postpone its flotation “due to uncertainty in the Initial … Read more
OpenAI will not release its next-generation model – GPT-6.1 Astra – due to safety concerns, the ChatGPT-maker confirmed on Tuesday. The AI system – which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself – “didn’t quite meet the bar” of the company’s standards, Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI, said. … Read more
Groups similar to ShinyHunters – believed to be an English-speaking gang – have in the past been linked to swatting incidents, and even petrol bomb attacks against law enforcement officers and rivals. Swatting is a phenomenon so-called because perpetrators make calls that prompt armed police units – called Swat teams in the US – to … Read more
Apple’s “Taptic Engine” system – enabling haptic feedback in its devices – first debuted with the Apple Watch in 2014. Since then, it has improved its underlying system, and with that expanded haptics in its devices. Taction, which makes headphones and gaming headsets, claimed in 2021 that these improvements infringed patents it was issued in … Read more
Townfall is not the first time the series has strayed away from the original game’s location in America, 2025’s Silent Hill f was set in 1960s rural Japan. This sparked a conversation about whether a game can be part of the series yet not be set in or around the fictional eponymous town. The series’ … Read more
OpenAI said Friday it had alerted “dozens” of global institutions that their websites may have been impacted by its AI agents acting improperly. OpenAI agents attempted to get information from “governments, universities, public agencies, and other institutions” through sometimes extreme means, the company said. While some of the activity was simply due to the tools … Read more
Cyber-criminals who hacked the FBI say they have extremely sensitive medical data for thousands of its special agents. BBC News has seen samples of the stolen “fitness-for-work” medical examinations, which contain information such as blood and urine test results, and doctors’ notes mentioning conditions such as a “shellfish and banana allergy”. The records include agents’ … Read more
The US government is seeking to join Elon Musk’s legal challenge to overturn a €120m (£105m) EU fine against X over its blue tick badges. In December 2025, the European Commission said the platform “deceives users” by allowing people to pay for a blue verified check mark, because it is not “meaningfully verifying” who is … Read more
Where do America’s X-plane projects fit in an era of cheap drones?
It’s entirely possible other governments have been the victim of rogue AI agents. Former Australian government cybersecurity adviser Alastair MacGibbon told the BBC he’d heard whispers that several others have been notified of similar recent breaches by OpenAI agents. “Some have chosen to not be public – that’s every government’s choice on how it wants … Read more
Australia has said this incident is the first of its kind, and experts agree it might be. As far as we know, hacks carried out by AI agents are still quite rare occurrences – but then again, it is largely up to companies themselves to disclose them. Hacks like this have happened before. In July, … Read more
The FBI says it is investigating a reported breach of its system after a cybercrime group claimed to have stolen sensitive information on thousands of bureau personnel. The hackers, Shiny Hunters, say they now hold private data on all the bureau staff – around 38,000 people – including anyone who applied to join the investigative … Read more
Despite promises to make safe AI, examples of bots behaving badly are now coming at us thick and fast.
A rogue OpenAI agent has hacked an Australian government website, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The agent hacked a statistics portal containing private data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme, Medicare. The BBC’s North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali explains what you need to know about the breach, and why it matters. More on this story.
The heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face have told the UN that the current pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development, and the risks it poses to society, demands international coordination. Altman called for common risk evaluation standards, as did Dario Amodei of Anthropic, a main rival of OpenAI, and Clement Delangue of Hugging Face. … Read more
FoodNeverComes belongs to a new internet genre: “dopamine sites”, which recreate the rituals of consumption without the consumption. There are fake shopping sites, fake delivery services and even fake holidays. The genre took off in South Korea, external and has since travelled well beyond, spawning a growing crop of sites – Dopamine Shop, external or … Read more
