After Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, @lorenzofb.bsky.social and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated! Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260803...

Who's legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI's autonomous AI hacks? It's complicated | TechCrunch

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the...

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Most experts are skeptical that cyber operations can be deterred. A wargame with over a thousand players offers new evidence. warontherocks.com/can-cyber-op...

Can Cyber Operations Be Deterred? What Wargames Reveal

The most successful deterrent threats leave no evidence behind. No missiles fly. No networks go down. No troops cross borders. Nothing happens. For

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Trust the great Jen Easterly to focus on what’s important in cyber security this week - an assumed Iranian attack on civilian water facilities in the US, rather than more noise about AI lab security testing failures In the New York Times ($€£) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | Small Towns Shouldn’t Have to Defend America’s Water Supply From Iran

Local communities need Washington’s help to fight foreign hackers.

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The contradiction at the heart of Andy Burnham’s attitude to devolution

Richard Wyn Jones There is a contradiction at the heart of Andy Burnham’s attitude to devolution. On the face of it, the new UK Prime Minister’s commitment could hardly be clearer. Last week he told r...

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IIRC Emily Wilson was on my staircase in the first year of university and came by a couple of times for a cup of tea. She seemed nice. This does not shake my determination to have no views on her critique of the Odyssey film nor anyone's critique of her critique.

Ciaran Martin@ciaranm.bsky.social · 4d ago

All this controversial stuff about The Nolan Odyssey movie and the Wilson LRB review etc don’t care 👇 #therightnottocare @alanbeattie.bsky.social

Breaking News: Water supplies in at least seven U.S. states were targeted by cyberattacks that officials say appear to be the work of Iran.

Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.

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All this controversial stuff about The Nolan Odyssey movie and the Wilson LRB review etc don’t care 👇 #therightnottocare @alanbeattie.bsky.social

👇 Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination by Karen Hao uk.bookshop.org/p/books/empi...

Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination

A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles...

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US Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security www.securityweek.com/us-bans-fore...

US Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security

The agency said imports of advanced robots pose cybersecurity and other national security risks.

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Some details I've collected over the last week on the cyber incidents affecting the water sector, w/ more to come. Yes, Iran is a suspect. No, there have been no reports of contamination. Industrial processes at plants have been safely shutting down www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...

Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge | CNN Politics

Hackers have targeted water systems in several US states in a coordinated cyberattack that has caused some utilities to issue boil-water notices and switch to manual mode, taking their systems offline...

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just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack

Undo.

Trump admin tries to rebuild election security infrastructure it gutted as midterms near | CNN Politics

After dismantling the federal system designed to protect US elections, the Trump administration now says it has a plan to rebuild it — less than 100 days before Election Day and just weeks before ball...

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I’m on the Today prog 👇@2hr38 discussing the Anthropic cyber security disclosure: - the least significant of all recent such announcements; - in less febrile times we’d have called this a config error; - raises issues about testing controls; 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This on the other hand is worth paying attention to IMHO. www.csoonline.com/article/4203...

Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps

Although there are a few ways to mitigate the risk, the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today.

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Gearóid O'Connor@goconnor.bsky.social · 5d ago

Spot on by @ciaranm.bsky.social on #BBCToday. The anthropic Claude AI "hack" feels like a "keeping up with the Jones" press release after #OpenAI and @hf.co "hack" more than any meaningful development or news. It was a configuration error. Though I have no doubt the #FUD increase will be real!

Spot on by @ciaranm.bsky.social on #BBCToday. The anthropic Claude AI "hack" feels like a "keeping up with the Jones" press release after #OpenAI and @hf.co "hack" more than any meaningful development or news. It was a configuration error. Though I have no doubt the #FUD increase will be real!

“Significant but manageable. Certainly not the end of the world” @ciaranm.bsky.social (formerly head of UK’s cybersecurity centre) speaks to #BBC’s Justin Webb about #AI firm #Anthropic’s #Claude on ‘unauthorised #hacks’ 8.38am

Today - 31/07/2026 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Over on Mastodon (I strongly recommend), @doublepulsar.com asked fellow defenders what's on their radars and how much of what they're actively dealing with is AI-related. The responses are overwhelmingly, no. ClickFix attacks and phone calls/social engineering remain among the top threats.

Big news in the Washington Post. Scotland's top rate of tax lost £30bn in revenue. An impressive feat when all of Scottish tax comes to about £20bn.

I’ve resurrected my substack to have a go at the new wave of AI fuelled cyber security hysteria don’t @ me open.substack.com/pub/ciaranma...

From Frenzy to Freakout

AI and the New Wave of Cyber FUD

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Chef’s kiss stuff

Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities | StateScoop

Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities | StateScoop

A cyberattack of undetermined origin disrupted water treatment plants in at least 30 communities in Minnesota, according to the state's technology bureau.

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This should cover us :)

all happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article...

Releasing: Post mortem analysis of the Hugging Face incident was written over the weekend by hundreds of CISOs (and reviewed by Hugging Face). Link: cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/hu... (+free download) From CSA, SANSInstitute, Knostic, [un]prompted, RSAC, FIRST

Hugging Face Incident Initial Post Mortem I CSA

AI Security Alliance's initial post-mortem on the Hugging Face incident, the first documented autonomous AI attack, with CISO guidance on detecting, responding to, and governing agentic AI risk.

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Useful explainer for the uninitiated from ESPN 😂 for those new to the (now former) Mayo curse www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_...

The day the Curse of Mayo ended? County triumph in All-Ireland final after 75-year wait

County Mayo ended a 75-year wait for All-Ireland Senior Football Championship glory on Sunday, defeating Kerry to break one of sport's most enduring supposed curses.

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If you were wondering whether Biden or Carney was going to celebrate the Mayo win on social media first, it was Biden.

A sentimental post on the all-Ireland final My wonderful late father & I went to every final between 1982 & 2021. This means we saw Mayo lose 11 times, the last one being when Tyrone won in 2021 👇 All-ireland day is harder than his real anniversary Other than ‘21 he always wanted Mayo to win ❤️💚

For those outwith Ireland, Mayo last won the Sam in 1951, & have lost 11 finals since. It's the Irish equivalent of the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series & lifting The Curse of the Bambino. The party will last for days!

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

It gets even better when they start comparing Mayo’s victory to the moon landing 💚❤️

Gavan Reilly@gavreilly.com · last wk.

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa