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It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe

Science

Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.

Department for Education suffers data breach

Computing

The UK's Department for Education has disclosed a serious data breach orchestrated via a social engineering attack on its external-facing helpdesk.

Laundry Bear pivots to new exploit days after Zimbra alert

Computing

The NCSC and partners warned of a novel phishing technique being deployed against high-profile users of Zimbra's Communication Suite, but the threat actor behind the campaign already seems to be moving on to new targets.

X Says Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law

Business

Elon Musk’s platform attacked the country’s “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government drop efforts to strengthen its no-children policy.

Ofgem targets datacentre builds with megawatt connection charge

Computing

The energy regulator wants to fast-track viable projects and deter speculative projects that request grid connectivity

SES to enable communications for Starlab commercial space station

Internet, Technology

Next-generation, AI-enabled commercial space station developer teams with satellite operator to provide always-on low orbit relay services supporting real-time mission awareness

More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

How to Bring a Geothermal Well Back from the Dead

Science

Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.

NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

Science

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.

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