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Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/0…

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

"Q&A: How ‘vehicle-to-grid’ technology could boost China’s electricity system"
#China #Energy

Q&A: How ‘vehicle-to-grid’ technology could boost China’s electricity system - Carbon Brief
China’s surging electric vehicles ownership is opening the door to a new technology that can help to enhance the flexibility of electricity supply

Amazon mit neuem KI-Beschleuniger und künftig mit Nvidia-Technologie
AWS stellt mit Trainium3 einen viermal schnelleren und energieeffizienteren Chip vor. Ab der nächsten Chip-Generation kommt Nvidias NVLink Fusion zum Einsatz.

from my link log —
The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/05/the-race-to-create-a-perfect-lie-detector-and-the-dangers-of-succee…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/02/corporate-responses-data-leaks-protecting-brands-not-consumers
The Guardian used “getting screwed” in a headline.
Knee-jerk corporate responses to data leaks p…

Knee-jerk corporate responses to data leaks protect brands like Qantas — but consumers are getting screwed
When courts ban people from accessing leaked data – as happened after the recent Qantas data breach – only hackers and scammers win

OpenAI is testing training LLMs to produce "confessions", or self-report how they carried out a task and own up to bad behavior, like appearing to lie or cheat (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/0<…

OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior
Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up.

Don't sleep on The Stack - it has a solid cybersecurity reporting game lately.
The Big Interview: NATO cybersecurity chief Mario Beccia
https://www.thestack.technology/the-big-interview-nato-cybersecurity-chief-mario-beccia/

The Big Interview: NATO Cybersecurity chief Mario Beccia
"Things are moving so fast that receiving a piece of information that is TLP-red, which means that you cannot even tell your colleagues, creates..."

AI Forensics: 354 AI-focused TikTok accounts pushed 43K posts made with GenAI tools that hit 4.5B views, including posts with anti-immigrant and sexual material (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Sources and docs: Palantir's Immigration OS helps ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them; a decade ago, Alex Karp said Trump's plans made "no sense" (Eva Dou/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/03/pala…

How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company’s chief executive.

As Sora clips go viral, users express awe and delight as others warn about IP theft and that its Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/technology/openai-sora-video-app.html

OpenAI’s Sora Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)
Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise that can bring creative A.I. to the masses — and its problems, too.