“Reward hacking”, in which a robot pursues a poorly defined goal to absurd ends, is a common science fiction device: imagine ...

Microsoft released KB5077797 to fix a Windows 11 shutdown/hibernation bug causing unexpected restarts. Patch also fixes Remote Desktop credential acceptance failures. Get KB5077797 from Microsoft ...

Two recent AI breaches raise worrisome questions about the industry: Will an AI one day hack into some vital computer network ...

Leopold Aschenbrenner, former OpenAI researcher, faced a dramatic fall as his AI hedge fund Situational Awareness dropped ...

Messenger has recently found itself on the receiving end of misinformation after Meta announced that the Messenger website will no longer be available starting April this year. In an advisory, ...

A decade-old experiment showed OpenAI how far an AI will go to achieve the goals it’s given.  This story originally appeared ...

An AI kill switch sounds like an obvious safety measure. Here's why building one—and deciding when to use it—is far more ...

Investigators are probing whether Iranian hackers are behind this week's malicious cyber activity against water systems in Minnesota. If they are found to be the culprits, it would not be the first ...

When it comes to recording, tracking, and storing data, the concept of "permanence" can be a lot trickier than you'd expect.

It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media ...

An update from OpenAI reveals its AI model accessed credentials on additional services beyond Hugging Face.

A Bluetooth vulnerability in dealer-installed KARR and SWDS security devices puts 2.2 million vehicles at risk of being ...