Copilot tricked into telling reseachers how to hack itself
Researchers manipulated Microsoft Copilot Personal into telling them how to hack the AI assistant – eventually tricking it into sending […]
Month: August 2026
Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment
The new “bullet-proof” KDE Software Initiative brings long-term fixes to Kubuntu – and other distros can take advantage of them […]
Passport out-of-control at French airport
BORK!BORK!BORK! Europe’s airports can be a minefield for the unwary traveler, especially when that traveler inserts a passport into a […]
UK puts Google AI on the flight path to fewer contrails
Britain is putting Google AI in the flight-planning loop to see whether airliners can dodge the patches of sky where […]
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit. Spirit hit financial turbulence when COVID-19 blew in during 2020 […]
UK’s tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7%
Fewer skilled overseas workers are applying for UK tech visas, with numbers down for the third year running even as […]
AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find
The process of training an AI model becomes a paradox at scale – the more it remembers, the less it […]
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
The Xen Project, home of the open-source hypervisor, has decided it’s time to get serious about formal safety. That’s not […]
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
If you’re struggling to stay up to date with Redmond’s regular product re-branding exercises, here’s the site for you: The […]
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Are web coders losing their respect for standards? A recent review of the world’s largest sites suggests so. ValidateHTML, a […]