55+ min ago   (1494+ words) Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's coveted morning classes. It was a task he thought was well suited to this particular assistant because the booking form was online and because his…...

3+ hour, 1+ min ago   (322+ words) Efforts are underway to get more young women into tech sector jobs, beginning with young teenagers. ShadowTech26 takes place in nine locations over the next two weeks, with workshops and other events aimed at interesting more than 1500 teenagers in a tech-sector…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (409+ words) The country's cyber watchdog says it's testing New Zealand government owned software code to improve its security. This follows a handful of cases worldwide of advanced AI models escaping test arenas in some cases to launch their own cyber attacks....

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (110+ words) As businesses and organisations look to Artificial intelligence to improve productivity, so-called rogue AI cyber breaches are raising concerns over security. In the past week, Anthropic says its AI models hacked into the systems of three organisations on their own,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (335+ words) Anthropic says its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue-agent episode involving AI firm Hugging Face. Anthropic said a misconfiguration…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (548+ words) The US company at the sharp end of the first fully autonomous AI hack has revealed what it was like. A rogue version of ChatGPT escaped a test bed - a "sandbox" - and hacked Hugging Face which runs a sort of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1172+ words) An artificial intelligence went rogue last week, broke out of its containment before successfully hacking another company, its developer has claimed. According to artificial intelligence developer OpenAI, one of its experimental models broke out of its isolated testing space by…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (529+ words) The Law Association is raising concerns the move-on orders bill would need adjustments, saying it may risk "unfairly criminalising" what is not criminal behaviour. The Summary Offences (Move-On Orders) Amendment Bill, whci is currently before a select committee, would give…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (142+ words) RNZ Emergency management investigating Civil Defence website crash Emergency management is investigating why the Civil Defence website crashed after last night's earthquake when people needed information and advice. The quake north of Te Anau was initially recorded as magnitude 6.3 but…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (417+ words) Unauthorised employee browsing, or snooping on private personal information of the public is a growing problem in New Zealand workplaces, according to the Privacy Commissioner. Cyber hacks involving personal health information have hit the headlines this year, but Privacy Commissioner…...