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