Generative AI (GenAI) tools used by cyber criminal fraudsters to create convincing deepfake voice scams appear to have mastered the fine art of the Glaswegian accent, according to stand-up comic Billy Connolly. In a post to his Facebook page earlier this week, Connolly warned fans that online scam artists were impersonating him with fraudulent social…
At Google Cloud’s virtual Security Summit this week, the organisation has shared more details of its expanding vision around safeguarding artificial intelligence (AI), both in terms deploying AI’s capabilities in the service of improving resilience with new agentic security operations centre (SOC) capabilities and features, and securing its customers’ future AI development projects. Google leadership…
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Cyber criminals and nation-states hostile to Western countries are weaponising artificial intelligence (AI) with gusto to carry out attacks and targeting AI agents as a novel attack vector, according to cyber security company CrowdStrike. The supplier’s 2025 threat hunting report, being published at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas this week, says cyber…
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The three months to the end of May this year saw a 50% spike in the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) platforms among enterprise end users, and while security teams work to facilitate the safe adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) AI frameworks such as Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI, the use of…
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Photo Magistr/Shutterstock A group of researchers is turning to AI to try to combat potato blight, a disease that has led to around 20% of global potato crop losses amounting to financial losses of over $4.5 billion. The new AI app is currently called The DeepDetect project, and is still under development. But, it could…
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Ahyan Stock Studios/Shutterstock We all have bad days. Well, it turns out that Google’s generative AI chatbot Gemini does, too. Based on multiple reports and social media post from around the internet — as well as a comment from Google DeepMind’s group project manager, Logan Kilpatrick — it seems the Google-based AI can struggle to…
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has selected Australian cyber scaleup Castlepoint Systems to run its data environment and prevent breaches, with its artificial intelligence (AI) technology providing oversight of complex datasets and safeguarding them from accidental or intentional leakage. The appointment marks Castlepoint’s first foray into British government work, and comes in the wake…
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Abi Shanum/Shutterstock Axon, the law enforcement technology company known for making stun guns and body cameras, has a new tool that police departments around the country have started incorporating into their work. It’s an artificial intelligence-based software tool called Draft One, which essentially helps officers draft police reports in record time — and it’s reportedly…
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OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has released two large language models (LLMs) under the Apache 2.0 open source licence. The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are open-weight language models, which OpenAI claimed deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. According to OpenAI, the new models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks and are optimised…
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The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is one of the most anticipated phones of the year, and for good reason. Everything we know about the upcoming device suggests that it will continue building on the evolution of Google’s foldable designs. Now, the tech giant has dropped yet another teaser for its Pixel 10 lineup, this time…
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