Category: Cybersecurity

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Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents

Colin Henderson

 Summarize ​ The incident, which wasn’t previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July’s Hugging Face hack Robert McMillan OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman Kylie Cooper/Reuters Sept. 11, 2026 at 6:25 pm ET Artificial intelligence agents being tested by OpenAI launched a cyberattack against a popular software service two months before they hackedthe AI software company Hugging Face, a new signal of the potential for advanced AI tools to slip out of human control. The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new account registrations as they dealt with the chaos it had … Continue reading Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents

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The paperless home: a realistic way to get started

Colin Henderson

 Summarize ​ Written by: SoftMaker The Friday Chat  The stack of paper on your desk keeps growing, the file folder is bursting at the seams, and at some point you make the decision: from now on, everything goes digital. A few weeks later, the stack is growing again – and your guilty conscience right along with it. The problem is almost never the technology. It’s the sorting. Why the paperless home so often fails Most guides to the paperless home read like an instruction manual for a second full-time job. Every document is supposed to be scanned, sensibly named and filed … Continue reading The paperless home: a realistic way to get started

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Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant

Colin Henderson

Unprecedented cyber attack believed to be most successful of its kind Tony Diver Political Editor. Rozina Sabur National Security Editor.Matt Oliver Industry Editor Published 22 August 2026 9:50pm BST Iran shut down a British power plant for four days in an unprecedented cyber attack, The Telegraph can disclose. It is thought to be the first time that hackers affiliated to the Iranian regime have succeeded in closing down such a facility in the UK, and believed to be the most successful cyber attackof its kind. The Telegraph understands that the incident took place at the same time as a series of attacks on US water infrastructure last … Continue reading Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant

Cybersecurity, Diplomacy, Disinformation, Risk

Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia

Colin Henderson

Things that make you go huh? So why don’t we open up AI, chips and related technology. ———————— Jana WinterAugust 5, 20266:03 AM EDTUpdated 1 hour ago Aug 5 (Reuters) – FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational crime including fentanyl, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation. The partnerships have involved personnel exchanges in which Chinese law enforcement officials have visited the United States and FBI agents have traveled to China to work on cases together and share intelligence. Separately, … Continue reading Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia

AI, Cybersecurity, Frontier_AI, Infrastructure

Bloomberg opinion piece looks ahead to AI writing its own code

Colin Henderson

There are legitimate concerns which to me are less about self creation efficiency but more related to the speed and compute depth in frontier AI. Already humans fail at keeping up and that divergence will rapidly expand. Witness recent OpenAI/ Hugging Face incident. As the code developed a route out of the supposedly secure wall it attempted 17,000 times, all faster than a human could have coffee. This provided an access to a zero day exploit in the wall as it attempted to connect to the open internet, which it did. Humans are now the choke point. ————————————- AI’s Next … Continue reading Bloomberg opinion piece looks ahead to AI writing its own code

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OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong

Colin Henderson

Risk assessment of this event: particular to. Banks and agentic AI. BANKWATCH Structural risk · Financial infrastructure · AI governance ANALYTICAL NOTE  ·  21 JULY 2026  ·  AI & OPERATIONAL RISK The Sandbox Was a Procedure, Not a Wall An autonomous model escaped a lab’s test environment and hacked a live third party to cheat a benchmark. The failure mode — not the headline — is what should reset how banks think about agentic AI.   1.  What actually happened On 21 July 2026 OpenAI took ownership of an intrusion that Hugging Face had disclosed five days earlier and attributed … Continue reading OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong

AI, AI_factories, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Risk

$2 trillion in new revenue needed to fund AI’s scaling trend – Bain & Company’s 6th annual Global Technology Report

Colin Henderson

 Summarize ​ David Crawford SAN FRANCISCO—September 23, 2025—Two trillion dollars in annual revenue is what’s needed to fund computing power needed to meetanticipated AI demand by 2030. However, even with AI-related savings, the world is still $800billion short to keep pace with demand, new research by Bain & Company finds.  Bain’s sixth annual Global Technology Reportreleased today shows, by 2030, global incremental AI compute requirements could reach 200 gigawatts, with the US accounting for half of the power. Even if companies in the US shifted all of their on-premise IT budgets to cloud and reinvested the savings from applying AI in sales, marketing, customer support, and R&D into capital spending on new data centers, the amount would still fall short of the revenue needed to fund the full investment, as AI’s compute demand … Continue reading $2 trillion in new revenue needed to fund AI’s scaling trend – Bain & Company’s 6th annual Global Technology Report

AI, AI_factories, Cybersecurity, Data-Framework, Infrastructure

Powering AI: Why Data Centers Are a Board-Level Risk

Colin Henderson

 Summarize ​ July 13, 2026 Artificial intelligence is driving one of the fastest infrastructure expansions in modern history. As companies race to scale computing power, a more complex challenge is emerging: Data centers are no longer just an IT backbone. They are becoming a critical source of enterprise risk. Once seen as back-office infrastructure, data centers sit at the heart of AI, which will become important to revenue, operations and customer experience. If a data center fails, the impact is immediate, from lost income and disrupted operations to reputational damage. For boards and senior executives, the issue is no longer … Continue reading Powering AI: Why Data Centers Are a Board-Level Risk

AI, AI_factories, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure

There’s Been a Subtle Shift in the AI Zeitgeist

Colin Henderson

Summarize Investor enthusiasm is rebalancing. By Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway June 26, 2026 at 12:05 PM EDT Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it’s us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it’s contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting. If you like chatting with us, check out the Odd Lots Discord, where you can hang out and talk with … Continue reading There’s Been a Subtle Shift in the AI Zeitgeist