2026-06-21
AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps
At its summit in New York, AWS unveiled two new services. Continuum automatically detects, prioritizes, and fixes code vulnerabilities. Context builds a knowledge graph from corporate data to give AI agents the business context they need. Both tackle the same problem: agents that write code fast but get things wrong too often.<br /> The article AWS says AI agents lack business context and se [...]
2026-06-21
'Simply being aware is no longer sufficient protection' — Security experts warn of AI-boosted scam campaigns that can trick even the smartest victims
AI-powered scams are tricking victims faster than ever, with many losing money within minutes through convincing fake identities. [...]
2026-06-21
‘The companies that will not respond, will not align with those requirements, will have difficulties in the European market’: Zscaler’s Casper Klynge on the question of European sovereignty, the transatlantic relationship, and the future of AI
Zscaler’s Casper Klynge on the question of sovereignty, the US, and the future of AI [...]
2026-06-21
Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do
At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what scaling could do. He cited OpenAI's recent disproof of a mathematical conjecture as evidence.<br /> The article Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do appeared firs [...]
2026-06-21
Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones
Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least seven states. The Civil Defense Alert platform was taken offline at 1:30 am on Saturday after the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development confirmed the intrusion. The Federal Police [… [...]
2026-06-21
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of users to treat AI systems as trusted companions. The comments came in a Bloomberg interview published this week in which Whittaker laid out her case that […]<br /> This story contin [...]
