The High Cost of Low Trust: Our Commitment to Radical Transparency
Only 5% of organizations fully trust their cybersecurity providers. Let’s do better. Categories: Products & Services, Sophos Insights Tags: Trust, Trust Center, Privacy
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Incident responders, s’il vous plait: Invites lead to odd malware events
A phishing campaign targeting multiple organizations led to RMM installations – but not much else (yet). A threat actor experimenting, or an access-as-a-service attack underway? Categories: Threat Research Tags: STAC6405, infostealer, RMM, Phishing
Where AI in the SOC is actually delivering — and where it isn’t
“We’ll have a generation of security professionals who can supervise AI but can’t function without it.” Categories: AI Research, Sophos Insights Tags: AI, AI Cybersecurity, AI RESEARCH, Generative AI, SOC
‘You Can’t Defeat the Robots!’: Baseball’s AI Strike Zone Is Must-Watch Television
With the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the seventh inning of Sunday’s Twins-Orioles game, Twins cleanup hitter Matt Wallner watched a knee-high 3-2 pitch sail directly over the heart of the plate for strike three. Rather than accept his fate, an emotional, frustrated Wallner tapped his helmet, signaling that he was…
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. “What I know is that I wrote those articles. Long Bets, Constitutional AI, Scalable Oversight. I chose them. The edits cited verifiable sources. And then…
The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones (with Dhruv Mehrotra)
This week Joseph talks to Dhruv Mehrotra, a journalist and technologist at Bloomberg. Before that, Dhruv was at WIRED, where you probably saw a ton of his interesting work. Dhruv sits in a very unusual space in journalism: he is able to both write technical tools to dig through data, or collect information, or really…
Scientists Discover Giant ‘Cavity’ Beyond Earth That Isn’t Supposed to Exist
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that gave birth to a one-ton baby, captured a legendary move on film, discovered a hole in space, and imagined our brains on Mars. First, a sperm whale named Rounder gives birth on camera, complete with some surprise guests. Then: the deadliest headbutts on…
Slopaganda and Sora, lol
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting stories from Twitter, the metaverse, and the new game Marathon. JASON: This is maybe not great to admit as a journalist, but I have taken a…
Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War
An AI-generated LEGO movie out of Iran depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile has gone viral online. The video is the work of Iran-based propagandists called the “Explosive News Team” and is just the latest in a long line of AI-generated LEGO videos aimed at mocking Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. LEGO-themed propaganda isn’t new…
Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Apple provided the FBI with the real iCloud email address hidden behind Apple’s ‘Hide My Email’ feature, which lets paying iCloud+ users generate anonymous email addresses, according to a recently filed court record. The…