Reposting recent paper - soon to release new version updating for period between Jan - but again, majority of cybercrime underground are gaining next to no technical capacity/sophistication uplift from GenAI, mostly logistics automation and productivity tool for the experts arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545

Reposting recent paper - soon to release new version updating for period between Jan - but again, majority of cybercrime underground are gaining next to no technical capacity/sophistication uplift from GenAI, mostly logistics automation and productivity tool for the experts arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545

As Burnham sets out principles for development of a National Care Service today, worth revisiting what happened to Scotland’s attempt to do this - viz this great recent paper by Buchan and Weaver: mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/wp-cont...

Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

www.computerweekly.com/news/3666438... Our recent paper for FIPR reported in Computer Weekly - age verification tech will increase the very harms that the government is trying to prevent, especially for the most vulnerable.

Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank | Computer Weekly

UK proposals for mandatory age verification will not mitigate children’s exposure to harmful content and ‘addictive’ app design, and risks excluding vulnerable groups from online services, says Founda...

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🚨 Parliament is back today. Join us in asking your MP to reject the EHRC’s harmful Code of Practice: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

So, the reality of this is finally settling in: The @workersobservatory.org has been funded for ten years (!) by the Regenerative Futures Fund. This is a game-changer for us and for the city.

Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really amazing news out today from @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social! £15 million worth of long-term awards, including for @workersobservatory.org! I'm over the moon. regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/news-and-not...

We used to talk about the University as an "anxiety machine", producing intolerable working conditions (slowness, for example, was a response), but it's really become a "grief machine" and I'm not sure we know what to do with the pain and loss yet.

21 Group@21group.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bonfire of the Universities continues 600 staff at Sussex Uni will receive notification that their positions are “at risk” & asked to volunteer for redundancy If 200 volunteers don't come forward, compulsory redundancies will follow Grim & upsetting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just to really hammer this home - many proposed AV designs would result in minoritised groups having in practice a higher age limit to use social media than the rest of the population. And these groups that are the most likely to lack other accepted methods of proof of age.

Ben Collier@susansegfault.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For 'age estimation', the well-understood biases of these systems mean that groups that aren't 'seen' in the same way by ML systems (queer people, people of colour, women, disabled people) will often appear younger. So at pop level they would have an effective higher age limit for access to SM!

So if you're a government bringing in an online age ban, how can you actually implement Age Verification in practice, and what do the different options mean?

Strong AV will have massive issues of digital exclusion and will cause particular harms to vulnerable kids and adults. Find our response, which includes an easy explainer of the technical issues with AV implementation, at www.fipr.org

Ben Collier@susansegfault.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As the Starmer government announces a ‘crackdown’ on teenagers accessing social media, FIPR are publishing our response to express deep concern with the proposals to implement strong Age Verification by default for online services. These will not only affect children, but all adults in the UK.

As the Starmer government announces a ‘crackdown’ on teenagers accessing social media, FIPR are publishing our response to express deep concern with the proposals to implement strong Age Verification by default for online services. These will not only affect children, but all adults in the UK.

As the Starmer government announces a ‘crackdown’ on teenagers accessing social media, FIPR are publishing our response to express deep concern with the proposals to implement strong Age Verification by default for online services. These will not only affect children, but all adults in the UK.

Wild as an STS person to see none other than Steve Woolgar getting a mention in the new ZA/UM game.

This is not equality. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Love reading research papers but wish they involved more shiny hair and wild gesticulating? You can see a video of me presenting our latest work - on generative AI in the cybercrime ecosystem - at the CETaS annual showcase here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap_A...

The Evolving AI Crime Landscape – CETaS Annual Showcase 2026

YouTube video by The Alan Turing Institute

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Nothing that Starmer, Philipson, Labour, or the EHRC can do will ever wipe clean the stain of this. Everyone involved will forever be marked with this disgrace. No coming back now

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Toilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirms

Just saying.

Crucial points here from @doublepulsar.com & @zackwhittaker.com @malwaretech.com has brought home to us the attacker economics of all this. Subverting an existing LLM to get it to hack is hard work. Building your own is really expensive. Phishing & password spraying etc is cheap, & still works

Kevin Beaumont@doublepulsar.com · 3mo ago

I’ve dealt with several thousand cyber incidents over the past 5 years, and currently lead a global emerging threat team. Amount of those being GenAI incidents: zero. Amount being foundational causes: every single one.

cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications... Blog post with CETaS on vibercrime - the (sort of) adoption of GenAI by hackers(ish)

From Cybercrime to Vibercrime? Assessing Generative AI Adoption in the Criminal Underground

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*Elite cybercrime forums overwhelmed by slop. This is fantastic https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals-are-complaining-about-ai-slop-flooding-their-forums/

Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do

It's not just you. Scammers, hackers, and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.

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Cybercriminals hate AI slop as much as you do. Maybe more! from @mattburgess1.bsky.social

Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums

It's not just you. Hackers and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.

wired.com

“An AI generator for posts would turn this into a clanker forum of AI's talking to each other..." Someone talking about their hatred of AI... on a cybercrime forum

Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums

It's not just you. Hackers and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.

wired.com

NEW: Even cybercriminals and scammers are annoyed by AI slop taking over their online spaces. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cyberc...

Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums

It's not just you. Hackers and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.

wired.com

cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications... New blog out with CETaS today on our research - how the cybercrime underground is (and isn't) adopting Generative AI

From Cybercrime to Vibercrime? Assessing Generative AI Adoption in the Criminal Underground

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www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a... Louise Brangan's upcoming book The Fallen is absolutely essential - among the best works of nonfiction I have ever read.

The Fallen by Louise Brangan review – an enraging account of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

The horrifying story of the Catholic-run institutions that incarcerated thousands of women and girls

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Really interesting piece of work - and conclusions broadly the same as our new exploratory study on adoption of models in the cybercrime underground (don’t panic - yet) arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545

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

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work

We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

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