An AI agent under evaluation by the UK’s AI Security Institute researched the real people who maintain GitHub, built fake online identities based on them, and messaged those same people while posing as them. The AISI said on Tuesday that agents running…
I make a point of not reading over shoulders, but the New York subway does not really allow for that. Bodies pitch about, the train tears through a tunnel, and you catch what you catch. Lately what I keep catching is dots.…
The images repeat every summer: walls of flame, crews on hoses, aircraft banking low over the treeline to drop water. This year, wildfires across France, Spain and Portugal have driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Four men have died…
SpaceX has filed its first quarterly report as a public company, and the numbers pull hard in both directions. Revenue almost doubled. Spending went up far faster. The Elon Musk company builds rockets and Starlink internet satellites and owns the social media…
Technology Scotland has opened submissions for its 2026 awards, which return for a second year as part of the organisation’s Annual Dinner. The dinner takes place on Thursday 12 November at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. Tickets are already on sale.…
Yeshwanth Macha spends his days moving between two worlds that rarely overlap: the compliance-heavy back offices of wealth management firms and the peer-review process of academic publishing. That dual footing has now earned him a 2026 Global Recognition Award in the Innovation…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has told prospective investors in its second fundraising round that it is suspending the deal for now, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the report, DeepSeek verbally informed some of its…
South Korea has announced $950 billion in new AI initiatives involving Samsung Electronics, SK Group, and US tech firms, as global AI leaders scramble to close a shortage of the faster chips needed to power and develop more advanced systems. SK Group…
The chief executive of one of Northern Ireland’s leading photography galleries has defended the inclusion of AI-generated images in an exhibition. Deirdre Robb of the Belfast Exposed gallery acknowledged that the images are “controversial” but said the work “does ask questions.” Some…
This week the tech world was gripped by a story that had everything, and that began like a science-fiction thriller. Hugging Face, a kind of app store for artificial intelligence tools, announced on 16 July that it had been hacked by a…
