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NIST advances new wave of quantum-safe signature algorithms
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (364+ words) The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has identified nine candidate post-quantum cryptography (PQC) signature algorithms to advance to the third stage of testing. Those that make it through the next phase will join the earlier standards - Dilithium,…...
AI leaders who wait five years will be out of business in three
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1229+ words) The AI question for technology leaders is no longer whether the tools are powerful enough. It is whether organisations can adopt them quickly without losing control of risk, governance, ethics and execution. Dr Alex Zarifis brings an academic but practical…...
Partner Content - Beyond AI pilots: What it takes to operationalise AI at scale
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (292+ words) For many organisations, AI implementation has been a whirlwind. Leadership teams are aggressively pushing AI pilots, but real-world impact at scale is often hard to achieve. But AI does not fail because of a lack of ambition. It fails because…...
Git Hub confirms major breach linked to poisoned VS Code extension
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (500+ words) Hackers have stolen data from thousands of Git Hub's internal code repositories after compromising an employee's device through a malicious extension for Visual Studio Code. The Microsoft-owned software development platform said the breach affected roughly 3, 800 internal repositories, describing claims made…...
Experts downplay alarm over Anthropic's Mythos model
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (504+ words) A month after Anthropic unveiled its powerful Mythos AI system, experts say fears of an immediate hacking crisis appear increasingly exaggerated. Mythos was unveiled last month, with Anthropic stating that the AI model had identified thousands of previously unknown software…...
AI companies are influencing global regulatory agenda, researchers warn
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (496+ words) Researchers have accused major AI companies of influencing governments and regulators using tactics similar to those employed historically by the tobacco, pharmaceutical and oil industries. A new academic study claims some of the world's largest AI firms are engaging in…...
Bug bounty platforms battle rise in AI-slop reports
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (560+ words) A surge in AI-generated "slop" is overwhelming corporate bug bounty programmes, forcing some companies to suspend their schemes. Bug bounty programmes, which pay independent researchers to uncover software vulnerabilities, have expanded significantly since emerging in the early 2000s. Google said its…...
EY cybersecurity report pulled after probe finds 'AI hallucinations"
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (521+ words) A cybersecurity report published by EY Canada has been removed from the firm's website after an investigation found that large sections of it were generated using AI and contained fabricated citations and inaccurate claims. The report, titled "Points of Attack:…...
India's tech juggernaut hits a wall - Asian Tech Roundup
1+ week, 2+ day ago (675+ words) Computing UK India's tech juggernaut hits a wall - Asian Tech Roundup Plus: Back-and-forth in Beijing over US AI chip exports Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the woes afflicting India's mighty…...
Glass-based chips bring lightspeed to the datacentre
1+ week, 2+ day ago (565+ words) Modern AI applications - particularly the training and inference of large language models (LLMs) - are driving classical semiconductor architectures towards their physical limits. In recent years, raw compute performance dominated the conversation. Now, however, bandwidth, signal loss and energy per bit…...