The Cabinet has adopted revised guidelines for artificial intelligence-related policies to bolster cybersecurity measures. The government has revised its guidelines for artificial intelligence-related policies, calling for constantly strengthening measures against cyberattacks in light of serious risks posed by cutting-edge AI models. The original AI policy guidelines were compiled only last December. The revision comes amid rapid technological innovation, including the launch of U.S. startup Anthropic's Claude Mythos. The revised guidelines, adopted at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, note the growing threat of cyberattacks against the backdrop of advancing AI capabilities, and call for collaborating with foreign government agencies and AI development companies to significantly strengthen the capabilities of Japan's AI Safety Institute. The guidelines also highlight the need to avoid excessive reliance on specific countries or companies for AI, and express the government's intention to develop domestic AI that addresses challenges facing Japan.

Since WIRED reported on Meta's NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence. Does a software feature exist if its code has been deployed to the devices of millions of people but they can't use it yet? Not if you work at Meta . The company's executives have spent the last few weeks making this semantic argument about NameTag, the in-development face-recognition system that Meta built for its smart glasses . The inevitable result is confusion, but that's easy enough to clear up.

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The public will be urged to take small but important steps to prepare for food or water shortages in the event of a cyber-attack or severe weather, the government has said as it updated Parliament on its national resilience plans. Cabinet Office Minister Darren Jones said a public awareness campaign would be launched later this year to help people prepare for emergencies. He also said the government would carry out the largest UK home defence exercise in several decades next year to ensure the UK is ready should the worst ever happen. Separately, the national risk register, external has been updated with seven new risks including the threat of a cyber-attack on water infrastructure. The threat of digital resilience failure - such as the global CrowdStrike outage which crippled more than eight million computers - has also been added to the list of the most acute risks facing the UK, which totals 95.

YouTube and X Have Become'Gateways' to Nudify Apps A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image. Most mainstream social media platforms have strict guidelines preventing the dissemination of nonconsensual intimate images (NCII), or sexually explicit photos and videos. But a new report finds that many social media platforms directly refer users to such content. The report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), an anti-extremism and anti-disinformation organization, analyzes the online ecosystem that enables the proliferation of so-called "nudify" apps and websites, which allow users to digitally undress people without their consent. The study, which was published on Monday, looked at the top 10 apps and websites used to make nonconsensual explicit deepfakes, as well as how people are finding them.

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. I'm happy to see a new NVMe SSD from Samsung, though it's not as fast as the older 990 EVO Plus. The 990 is a step up from the 990 EVO, though the write rate plummets when secondary cache runs out. But it's slower than the older 990 EVO Plus and not a bargain, even given the current NAND crunch. New NVMe SSD releases have become increasingly rare -- another casualty of the AI data center gold rush.

Microsoft's recent patch for the RoguePlanet vulnerability in Defender inadvertently introduced a new serious flaw that can exhaust disk space on Windows systems. PCWorld reports that cybersecurity researcher Nightmare-Eclipse discovered this bug affects Windows 11 25H2 and Windows Server 2025, with a proof-of-concept exploit demonstrating the issue.

Microsoft now recommends installing Windows updates within three days due to AI-powered cyber threats that exploit vulnerabilities faster than ever before. PCWorld reports that hackers use artificial intelligence to quickly target unpatched Windows systems, making delayed updates extremely risky for users. Microsoft patched a record 206 vulnerabilities in June and uses its own AI tool MDASH to identify security flaws in Windows code. Microsoft has flipped its stance regarding the installation of Windows updates. You should now install these updates on your Windows computers as soon as possible.

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