Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches

The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about... Read more »

Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance

Northern Ireland journalist subject to unlawful communications surveillance seeks damages from police in Northern Ireland in high court claim for data protection breaches and harassment Read more »

Expecting cyber attack, Kiteworks tells users to turn off servers

An as-yet undisclosed zero-day vulnerability has prompted managed file transfer provider Kiteworks to tell users to preemptively switch off their servers. Read more »

Digital identity – moving forward with ambition

Despite the UK government’s U-turn on a digital identity scheme, the uses and opportunities for digital ID are gathering pace Read more »

French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging

French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech Read more »

AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?

Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why Read more »

Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination

Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users Read more »

Is AI dangerous? Trying to separate hype from fact

The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls... Read more »

Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch

In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly-managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with new capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles. Read more »

Zero-trust was built for people. Nobody told it about agents

The concept of zero-trust needs no introduction, but in the new world of AI agents, it’s a model that now needs to evolve. Read more »
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