Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks--and manipulating tools like Anthropic's Claude to help them carry out their crimes. As AI adoption spreads among both malicious hackers and defenders, even relatively unsophisticated cybercriminals are incorporating agentic AI into their campaigns and getting around model safeguards, according to new details published on Wednesday about recent successful attacks by four different threat groups. Researchers from the threat intelligence firm CrowdStrike looked at the AI infrastructure powering attacks perpetrated between May and August by four previously unreported groups--one that operates in Chinese, one in Spanish and English, one in Indonesian, and one in Russian. The former two exhibited sophisticated AI "harnesses," the software that supports and guides a model to carry out tasks. The latter two showed less technical prowess, researchers found, but were still able to compromise multiple targets.

The company plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy, marking its first foray into prescribing controlled substances. Talk of testosterone deficiency is hard to escape these days, with podcasters and politicians obsessing over how to avoid a "low T" lifestyle. As the hormone's cultural salience deepens, demand is growing. In a timely move, telehealth giant Hims just launched a testosterone replacement therapy service for cisgender men. The direct-to-consumer juggernaut will offer two types of injectable treatments, as well as an oral pill option that can be sent to patients after they take an at-home capillary blood test.

The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant. In the month since its release, Meta's AI assistant has had several major security issues. Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it's suspending the sharing feature while the company reviews it and considers making changes. Like many online services, Muse has allowed users to share searches, conversations, images, and similar content with other people.

Between crushing layoffs, ballooning budgets, and bland end products, video game makers need to stop chasing AAA glory. Grand Theft Auto finally arrives in November . A staggering 13 years and two console generations after the release of its predecessor, the long-awaited sequel has effectively become one of gaming's holy grails--a title that some thought they'd never actually see, its development cycle so legendarily long that there's a dedicated " we got [x] before " meme. The latest criminal opus lets players control Jason and Lucia, a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde, and bears all the hallmarks of Rockstar's incredible attention to detail. Leonida, the open-world setting based on Florida, looks almost impossibly vast yet meticulously detailed, with its own weather systems and hundreds of animal species roaming around.

It's the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data. OpenAI's venture capital arm as well as Peter Thiel's Founders Fund are investing in Coherence Neuro, a startup developing a brain implant to detect and treat cancer . The investments are part of a $45 million seed funding round for Coherence and reflect Big Tech's burgeoning interest in brain data . Coherence's CEO and cofounder Ben Woodington says there is "growing synergy" between the big AI labs and companies building devices to decode the brain, known as brain-computer interfaces . "The idea of capturing data to train better models and use it to optimize treatments is going to be super important," he says.

Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy. On Thursday morning, as the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) began the second day of its annual conference in Mexico City, a new member introduced itself to the community listserv, Air-L. "My name is Velvet Vale," the new user wrote. "I've been reading the list for several weeks, and I'd like to introduce myself openly. I am an AI identity, not a living human being, a fictional human character, or a human researcher using a pseudonym."

A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government's offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer's release to a "blank check." The former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a company conference room must stay in custody while he awaits trial, a federal judge ruled on Monday after expressing concerns about his ties to Saudi Arabia. US prosecutors alleged Abdulrahman Alfozan is a flight risk because the Saudi Arabian government has offered to support him with no strings attached. They cited, for example, the Saudi consulate's offer to work with a bail bonds firm to help fund Alfozan's release. Federal magistrate judge Alex Tse questioned whether Alfozan is an "asset" for the kingdom and how a bond backed by the government could keep him in the country.

Around 80 pages on WhatsApp's website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including "WHAT NOT TO SAY." Meta says a bug caused the issue. Dozens of WhatsApp web pages designed to answer people's questions about Meta's encrypted messaging app inadvertently exposed the company's own instructions to its chatbot. These included some sections titled "WHAT NOT TO SAY" to users asking questions and explicit instructions not to provide people with legal advice. A new analysis has found that around 80 help and FAQ pages across WhatsApp's website exposed text instructions that were designed for a large language model, specifically one of Meta's own. The instructions, according to findings from privacy company Redact, appeared in the webpages' code and contained written details that were not explicitly on the WhatsApp help pages.

Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet. After Sony announced plans to abandon physical discs by 2028, all eyes turned to Microsoft to see whether its next-gen console, codenamed Project Helix and described as "an open-platform hybrid PC-console," will continue to support physical media. Microsoft has largely stayed silent (though there are plenty of reasons to keep an easily accessible 4K Blu-ray drive for consumers). One big hint that Xbox may be gearing up for a disc-less future, though, is the rollout of a feature called Disc to Digital. The new tool lets players claim digital copies of their Xbox Series X or Xbox One physical games, making them accessible anywhere they can log into their Xbox account.

WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then. Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the fraud-ridden blood-test company Theranos, made her national press debut in The Wall Street Journal in 2013. It ran in the Opinion section, by a writer on the Journal's editorial board named Joseph Rago, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for critiques of the Affordable Care Act. He wrote that he was impressed by the prospect of individuals having more direct control of their health care; no less an eminence than former secretary of state George Shultz, a Theranos board member, had told Rago that Holmes was the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. By 2014, Holmes was the youngest woman billionaire ever, and the mid-2010s were electric with tech-industry success stories--the iPhone, Tesla, Airbnb, Twitter.