Data thieft: A 15-year-old minor arrested

Spotify has expanded its interactive AI DJ feature to four new languages — French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese — alongside launches in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, and Switzerland. The feature is now available in more than 75 countries, having previously been limited to English and Spanish. Each new language version comes with a distinct […]

The system’s power is comparable to others – but it still has frightening implications for the future of hacking Last month, Anthropic made a remarkable announcement about its new model, Claude Mythos Preview: it was so good at finding security vulnerabilities in software that the company would not release it to the general public. Instead, it would only be available to a select group of companies to scan and fix their own software. The announcement requires context – but it contained an essential truth. Continue reading...

Two of Silicon Valley's best known tech moguls, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are going to face off each other in court with the trial getting underway with jury selection on Monday.  The lawsuit is brought by Musk, who accuses Altman of fraud and is seeking more than $130 billion in damages, for 'betraying' the AI startup's founding mission of being non-profit. Plus, labelling rules on honey jars are set to toughen from mid-June in France, taking a new EU indication of origin rule into effect.

Cyberdefenses could be exposed faster than fixes could be deployed.

Frontend cloud platform Vercel, the creator of Next.js and Turbo.js, has warned about a data breach after a compromised third-party AI application abused OAuth to access its internal systems. A Vercel employee used the third-party app, identified as Context.ai, which allowed the attackers to take over their Google Workspace account and access some environment variables that the company said were not marked as “sensitive.” “Environment variables marked as ‘sensitive’ in Vercel are stored in a manner that prevents them from being read, and we currently do not have evidence that those values were accessed,” Vercel said in a security post. The incident compromised what the company described as a “limited subset” of customers whose Vercel credentials were exposed. These customers have now been reached out to with requests to rotate their credentials, Vercel said. According to reports surfacing on the internet, a threat actor claiming to be the Shinyhunters began attempting to sell the stole

New system has sparked fears it could turbocharge hacking and expose weaknesses faster than they can be fixed

Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligence Emma Brockes’ article struck a chord (It’s finally happened: I’m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears, 8 April). I am reading Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, in which the eminent French historian and soon-to-be-executed resistance worker gives a first-hand account of the collapse of the French army in 1940. He attributes the debacle at least in part to a failure of imagination on the part of the French general staff, who were incapable of grasping that technology, and war, had fundamentally changed since 1918. Brockes’ article suggests that we, and our leaders, are suffering from the same inability to understand that a technology which is currently amusingly alarming will develop in less amusing ways – the future Marshal Ferdinand Foch had, according to Bloch, earlier dismissed aircraft as being a toy for hobbyists and not of any military interest.

After falling victim to a hacker, Mercor is facing lawsuits and reportedly losing big-name customers.