Thanks to WeThink (formerly Omnisis), we’ve conducted some opinion polling on inheritance tax. The polling confirms that inheritance tax really is deeply unpopular, and this isn’t driven by ignorance…

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

You can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent.

It won't work: My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. We have to reassess sandboxing quality for capable AI agents, and in general the software stack with which they interact. An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to contain a modern, cyber-capable AI agent. There is simply too much attack surface. Even innocuous features (like running with a display) add extra, exploitable attack surface.

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information...

During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...

A deeper look at PACT: a new initiative to tackle the rising tide of CAPTCHAs on the web whilst keeping the web open and preserving user's privacy.

If you use Google Authenticator, you can switch to Aegis by importing a QR code... Q. Can you grab the QR code from Google Authenticator by taking a screenshot? A. Yes, but you might need to turn of...