When a chap called Matt noticed his Bluetooth headphones wouldn’t switch to his phone, he was surprised to realise the reason was a single AliExpress webpage sitting open in his browser – playing ...

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An app has appeared in India that lets anyone with a smartphone stop a passing e-rickshaw dead in its tracks – no login, no passwords, no permissions needed. Meanwhile, Geoff – swimming in money and ...

Arion Kurtaj, a teenager from the UK, amassed a fortune through audacious cybercrimes. From stealing Grand Theft Auto 6 secrets to erasing Brazil’s COVID vaccination data, his exploits were legendary.

What if your AI coding assistant could be tricked into stealing your own company’s secrets – by reading a single booby-trapped bug report? No phishing email. No malware. No password ever stolen. Just ...

At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google’s AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it – with a completely straight face – that it was a ...

A website called “UK visa portal” has been quietly collecting passport scans, selfies, and personal data from thousands of travellers who thought they were applying through official channels. They ...

AI bots are having existential crises, inventing religions, and allegedly plotting against humanity… or so the internet would have you believe. We dig into Moltbook, the “AI-only” social network that ...

You’ve had your iPhone stolen. A day later, you get a text from Apple saying they’ve found it, and a very helpful woman called Alice from Apple Support calls to walk you through recovering it. She’s ...

A 15-year-old boy asked a chatbot for help – and cancelled nearly 47,000 anime streaming subscriptions in under four hours. Meanwhile, researchers have documented the first fully autonomous, agentic ...

A hacker calling themselves “CYBERLEEK” has been leaking gameplay footage from GTA 6 ahead of its official reveal this week – but they’re not asking Rockstar Games for a ransom. Instead, they’ve ...

Would you like access to Anthropic’s Claude at 90% off the normal price? All you have to do is redirect your traffic to a mysterious service called “Poison Claude”. Only problem is that it’s run by ...