A hacking group claims to have broken into the flood defence system protecting Venice’s Piazza San Marco – and is offering to ...

LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can ...

A cannabis-growing, beekeeping, gyrocopter-flying Irishman invested his drug money in Bitcoin back in 2011 – and now sits on a fortune worth $400 million. There’s just one small problem: the access ...

A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin – signing his extortion emails from ...

A Wikipedia security engineer accidentally wakes a dormant JavaScript worm that hadn’t stirred since 2024 – and within minutes, giant woodpecker images are plastered across the internet’s favourite ...

When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the person put in charge of the investigation was the actual leaker… who promptly sent an ...

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 ...

Confusion reigns after claims that data linked to 17.5 million Instagram accounts is up for sale – sparked by a vague post, contradictory statements, and a flood of password reset emails nobody asked ...

Romance scammers have apparently discovered astrology… and Taurus is their secret weapon. In episode 449 of “Smashing Security”, we take a look inside an actual romance-fraud handbook – complete with ...

In episode 80 of The AI Fix, your hosts look at DeepSeek 3.2 “Speciale”, the bargain-basement model that claims GPT-5-level brains at 10% of the price, Jensen Huang’s reassuring vision of a robot ...

In episode 78 of The AI Fix, alien robot spiders invade Antarctica (or Facebook says they do), Mark prepares humanity for AI-powered fighter jets with loyalty issues, and Graham tries to work out why ...

In episode 77 of The AI Fix, a language model trained on genomes that creates a super-virus, Graham wonders whether AI should be allowed to decide if we live or die, and a woman marries ChatGPT (and ...