Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says
Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’
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Sophos ranked #1 overall for Firewall, MDR, and EDR in the G2 Spring 2025 Reports
Also ranked the top solution across 53 global reports.
Meta’s AI Model ‘Memorized’ Huge Chunks of Books, Including ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘1984’
A new paper from researchers at Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University seems to show that one version of Meta’s flagship AI model, Llama 3.1, has memorized almost the whole of the first Harry Potter book. This finding could have far-reaching copyright implications for the AI industry and impact authors and creatives who are already…
Sophos Tops G2 Winter 2026 Reports: #1 Overall in Endpoint, XDR, MDR and Firewall
#1 Ranked in 66 Global Reports
Podcast: Why AI Porn Sucks (with Noelle Perdue)
This week Sam is in conversation with Noelle Perdue. Noelle is a writer, producer, and internet porn historian whose works has been published in Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, and more, and you’re probably familiar with her work if you’ve been paying attention to the plot in your favorite pornographic films. She’s writing on Stubstack…
‘Mini Shai-Hulud’ supply chain attack targets SAP npm packages
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, NPM, SAP
Podcast: AI Is Breaking Our Brains
This week we discuss a new Microsoft study that finds using generative AI is “atrophying” people’s cognition and critical thinking skills, the right’s war on Wikipedia, and, in the subscriber’s section, the idea of posting against fascism. Articles discussed: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”Wikipedia Prepares for ‘Increase in Threats’ to…
New Deep Sea Creatures ‘Challenge Current Models of Life,’ Scientists Say
The Sun powers almost all life on Earth, but chemosynthetic life is the fascinating exception. These organisms find fuel in chemical reactions, allowing them to flourish in places where the Sun doesn’t shine—like the deep sea. Now, scientists have discovered chemosynthetic animals, such as foot-long tubeworms and mollusks, nearly six miles beneath the ocean surface,…
Behind the Blog: Paywall Jumping and Smart Glasses
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 archiving to get around paywalls, hating on smart glasses, and more. JASON: I was going to try to twist myself into knots attempting to explain the throughline…
The Weird Way the 404 Media Zine Was Built
This post originally ran on Tedium, our zine designer Ernie Smith’s wonderful website and newsletter about the Dull Side of the Internet. Check it out here. I write a lot these days, but my path into journalism, going way back to J-School, was through layout. For years, I was a graphic designer at a number…