Last month’s #JaguarLandRovercyberattack may cost £3.5B in revenue, but the bigger issue is the impact on 230,000 workers at JLR and in the supply chain facing layoffs, work reductions, and lost wages. @jasonnurse.bsky.social, Tom Johansmeyer & Gareth Mott: bindinghook.com/jaguar-land-...

Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.

Under the new policy, ChatGPT will be trained to no longer engage in "flirtatious talk" with underage users, and additional guardrails will be placed around discussions of suicide.

Amazon to launch augmented reality football coverage on.ft.com/3I9wuXP

Reposted from our colleagues who are currently visiting #EuroUSEC25 in Manchester 🇬🇧

Day 2 of #EuroUSEC25 is about to start, and amazing Dr. Nurse (@jasonnurse.bsky.social) is getting everyone on track for an inspiring day with a lot of good papers.

#SECUSO

Hear from our inspiring panel speaker @jasonnurse.bsky.social, University of Kent and @cybsafe.bsky.social, joining us at the Northern WARP 5th Annual Conference on the 12th September!

Tickets are FREE to anyone in the WARP community 👉 northernwarpconference5.eventbrite.co.uk?aff=BlueSky

ICYMI from Def Con: Eaton Zveare found bugs in a carmaker's centralized dealer web portal that allowed "unfettered access" to customer data and systems inside. Portal allowed remote control of some car functions, like door unlocking. The bugs highlight the risks of these web-connected data portals.

Warm, Encouraging Email From CEO Quickly Identified As Phishing Attempt theonion.com/warm-en...

OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines to prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information.

The feature rollback follows reports of ChatGPT conversations being discoverable in Google results.

www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/o...

What would happen if technology companies treated online abuse more like spam? A key advantage: users would have the choice to address potentially abusive content or to ignore it altogether. Here’s why that matters: innovation.consumerreports.org/Digital-Hara...

A flyby of Earth from the International Space Station.

-Credits: NASA

LLMs' AI-Generated Code Remains Wildly Insecure

Security debt ahoy: Only about half of the code that the latest large language models (LLMs) create is cybersecure, and more and more of it is being created all the time.

www.darkreading.com/application-...

Top spy says LinkedIn profiles that list security work 'recklessly invite attention of foreign intelligence services'

www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/a...

Hidden features of volcanic “lava bombs” have been caught on video.

Learn more: scim.ag/478PIqq

New, by me: Lovense, a maker of internet-connected sex toys, has confirmed it fixed a pair of security flaws that exposed users' private email addresses and put accounts at risk of takeovers. Now the company's CEO says he might sue.

Google Project Zero to publicly announce bugs within a week of reporting them

The elite bug-hunters at Google Project Zero are taking aim at how long it takes to fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities

therecord.media/google-proje...

I’m in Raconteur talking about the ‘new’ Online Safety Act, and range of risks surrounding online age checks and these digital ID systems.

www.raconteur.net/technology/t...

Tip: Don’t use AI as a therapist.

Altman: "Right now, if you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor about [your life, relationship] problems, there’s legal privilege for it... We haven’t figured that [or privacy] out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT."

mashable.com/article/sam-...

U.K. starts enforcing online age check rules

Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results

For searches that resulted in an AI-generated summary, users very rarely clicked on the sources cited.

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

New from 404 Media: LeBron James' lawyers send cease-and-desist to AI company making pregnant videos of him. Marks one of the first known times that a celebrity has threatened legal action against an AI company for enabling nonconsensual AI imagery of their likeness www.404media.co/lebron-james...

A new study just upended AI safety

Evil is contagious

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Registration is officially open & early-bird tickets available until 15 September 2025!

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