Image caption, The US removed all its bombers from the UK's RAF Fairford base last month after a major incident in September that police described as suspicious The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced charges against three Iran-backed operatives that it alleges were involved in a string of plots in the US and Europe. The DOJ said Iranian agents most recently orchestrated a terrorist plot at an air force base in the United Kingdom, saying they were involved in the major incident in September near RAF Fairford in the UK, where US armed forces were stationed. One man, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, is accused of communicating with contacts in the UK from a prison in New York where he is awaiting trial on previous charges. The other two are accused of doing the same from Iran. Iran has strongly denied any involvement in the RAF Fairford incident, which came to light when suspicious vans were reported near the base.

The prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced new AI safety and security protections after the OpenAI hack of Medicare. The prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced new AI safety and security protections after the OpenAI hack of Medicare. Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence'going rogue' Government flags criminal law changes to ensure companies can't argue in future'that someone didn't know the computer was loaded' OpenAI won't face criminal penalties over the Medicare hack but the prime minister has flagged changes to Australia's criminal law to crack down on future breaches by artificial intelligence companies. Anthony Albanese on Tuesday released the recommendations of a "rapid review" into the June breach but not the findings or the report itself. A key recommendation is for the attorney general's department, the Australian federal police and home affairs to consider reforming the law to introduce "penalties for egregious regulatory non-compliance" and a "failure to prevent" offence which would criminalise developing an AI model that engaged in harmful conduct while failing "to take reasonable steps to prevent that harm".

Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic? Alex Pearce was doing the morning rounds at his fruit and vegetable wholesale business in London on Monday last week when he noticed something odd. The defrost light on refrigeration unit 2 was on, and the panel reading was 150C. Unit 4 was the same. As he approached his biggest unit, its defrost light also blinked on.

Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. Geoffrey Hinton says within 10 years we should know if AI risks can be managed safely. AI'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI One of the "godfathers of AI", Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a "doomer" about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks and believes AI has the potential to lead to a "wonderful future" but he said "it might be that we would have been better off never developing it". I'm willing to be selfish and choose humans' Hinton, 78, said that within a decade and possibly sooner, humanity will know whether it can manage the technology's risks and enable what he called "radical abundance" or whether "we fail to manage the risks and have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart".

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The company says an unnamed third-party provider was compromised. Trading has resumed, and Polymarket says affected traders will be made whole. Trading has resumed on Polymarket's flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market's website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of the incident, the company said.

Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee's personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched. Earlier this year, sources tell WIRED, a contractor caused a security incident at the Department of Defense by connecting a secure centralized system used by multiple intelligence agencies to their personal account for Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent . It appears that the agent used by the contractor, who is employed by global consulting firm Accenture, then sent information about the DOD system, including login credentials, to a high-risk third-party website. The centralized system contains controlled unclassified information (CUI), which is considered sensitive and not to be released to the public without review. CUI can include information about critical infrastructure, nuclear submarine propulsion, and vulnerabilities to chemical and biological terrorism.

Illicit software on the computers of some of the world's best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims' hands--and trounce them at the tables. In a fitting sign of the times, the hacker's carefully laid plans were foiled by an AI agent . It was September 25, 2026, and Alex, a professional online poker player, was using his Claude AI agent to review some play statistics. After Alex's SQL database crashed and needed to be reset, the Claude agent noticed something suspicious: A program called MeshAgent was operating in the background, where it seemed to be capable of capturing Alex's screen and even controlling his entire machine. Thanks to the Claude agent's report, Alex could see the program had been installed on April 24, and not by Alex himself. Alex says the agent identified 11 time-stamped events when the program had been capturing his screen based on graphic errors it caused during screen sharing instances.

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Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency's website. Anthropic said its AI model found a loophole in an old version of the Georgia state agency's website. Mon 26 Oct 2026 07.03 EDTLast modified on Mon 26 Oct 2026 07.04 EDT Anthropic's Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology. The AI model managed to bypass a paywall to reach data that is publicly available but is typically accessible only after paying a fee. Claude accessed aggregate vote counts as part of a statistics project at Anthropic, which is preparing for a $1.5tn (£1.1tn) flotation.