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Televize s baterií. LG StanbyME má vlastní podvozek, dá se otočit na výšku i pověsit na stěnu

Živě.cz - 7 Září, 2026 - 13:15
V Berlíně na IFA ukázalo LG svoji novinku. StanbyME 2 Max spojuje 32″ matný dotykový displej s pojízdným stojanem, televizním systémem webOS a vestavěným akumulátorem. Obrazovku lze ze stojanu sejmout, položit na stůl nebo zavěsit na stěnu. Bez elektrické zásuvky má vydržet až 4,5 hodiny.
Kategorie: IT News

Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff

The Register - Anti-Virus - 7 Září, 2026 - 13:04
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) says diversity data belonging to around 2,000 current and former employees who worked at the environmental regulator between April 2013 and March 2018 was exposed in a classic Freedom of Information (FoI) blunder. The Welsh government-sponsored body confirmed on Friday the information was "inadvertently disclosed" in a spreadsheet published on a website. Its statement did not identify the site, explain how the sensitive data came to be posted there, or say how many people were affected. NRW subsequently told The Register that around 2,000 people were affected and said it had released the information in 2021 as part of a response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The exposed information may have included ethnicity, disability status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, Welsh language ability, caring responsibilities, and other "equality monitoring information," although not every category applied to each affected employee. Some of these details constitute special category personal data and are subject to additional protections under the UK GDPR. "We sincerely apologise that this incident occurred and recognise the concern and uncertainty it may cause to those affected," NRW said in its disclosure statement. "As soon as we became aware of the issue, we took immediate steps to contain the incident and investigate the circumstances surrounding the disclosure." The organization said it reported the breach to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), removed the information from the website, and obtained confirmation that it had been permanently deleted. "We have undertaken a full investigation and are continuing to review our processes and controls to help prevent a recurrence," NRW added. "While we are not aware of any evidence that the information has been misused, we encourage individuals to remain vigilant for any unexpected communications and to report any concerns." The Register asked NRW how it discovered the breach and why it went unnoticed for years. It told us: "We were alerted to the issue by a member of the public on 23 August 2026." ®
Kategorie: Viry a Červi

Jaderná elektrárna na lodi. Kanadský projekt zkrátí stavbu a nezanechá na místě žádný radioaktivní odpad

Živě.cz - 7 Září, 2026 - 12:45
Projekt transportovatelné jaderné elektrárny zajistí energii tisícům domácností • Výroba a instalace modulárního reaktoru zabere přibližně 18 měsíců • Zařízení budou vlastnit místní domorodé komunity z Kanady
Kategorie: IT News

ChatGPT can now connect to your personal apps to mimic writing style

Bleeping Computer - 7 Září, 2026 - 12:36
OpenAI appears to be testing a new "Writing Style" feature for ChatGPT that can learn how you write by looking at examples from your connected apps. [...]
Kategorie: Hacking & Security

Hackers exploit new MikroTik RouterOS flaws to hijack routers

Bleeping Computer - 7 Září, 2026 - 12:32
Hackers are exploiting a chain of two recently disclosed vulnerabilities in MikroTik routers to take control of devices with SSH services exposed to the internet. [...]
Kategorie: Hacking & Security

ConnectWise warns of new ScreenConnect flaw without patch

Bleeping Computer - 7 Září, 2026 - 12:06
ConnectWise has shared temporary mitigation measures for a new ScreenConnect Remote Access vulnerability that it plans to patch later this week. [...]
Kategorie: Hacking & Security

UK food supply chain at risk from hostile attacks

The Register - Anti-Virus - 7 Září, 2026 - 12:06
A UK watchdog is warning that cyber criminals making moves against online systems in the food supply chain could cause serious upset, following damaging attacks on the Co-op and Marks & Spencer last year. The National Audit Office (NAO) named cyber-attacks as one of the major threats to the food supply chain and said the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) should work closely with industry to help prevent severe shocks. “Recent disruptions have shown the resilience of the UK’s food supply chain, but risks are increasing in likelihood and severity. Defra should learn from approaches taken in other countries, and strengthen preparedness for emergencies by testing plans with local government and industry,” said Gareth Davies, head of the NAO. In its report published late last week, the NAO said the sector had shown some resilience to cyber-attacks, but the government needed to work with the sector to help mitigate their impact. The report found businesses in the food supply chain have faced increased costs and, in some cases, disruptions to day-to-day operations, for example following 2025 cyber-attacks on retailers such as Marks & Spencer and the Co-op. Leading UK retailer Marks & Spencer estimated the cyberattack that took place in April last year will cost it around £136 million ($177.2 million) in total. The retailer said one of the earliest actions it took in its incident response was to disconnect its warehouse management systems, which in turn meant online and in-store orders were adversely impacted. Food retailer the Co-op confirmed that thieves stole data from 6.5 million of the organization's members during a cyberattack last year. In its report, the NAO said: “The way the food supply chain has developed over time has prioritized efficiency, which reduces costs for businesses, and therefore for consumers. However, it leaves the supply chain more vulnerable to disruptions. Defra and food supply chain stakeholders see risks increasing, and businesses are investing to address growing risks such as increased threats of cyber-attacks. Defra is less confident about the ability of businesses to withstand shocks without government intervention in the next five to 10 years because of increasing risks and the potential for more severe disruptions.” The NAO found cyber-attacks were among the disruptions that had increased operating costs for businesses and disrupted day-to-day operations, affecting their core digital systems. Several food supply chain organizations cited the substantial investments businesses are making to manage the threat and incidence of cyber-attacks. However, some said overall economic pressure on businesses is making this and other resilience investments more difficult, the NAO added. Defra said it undertook specific food-related exercises which, since 2023, have focused on testing responses to a cyber incident affecting the food sector. However, the government department may not be best placed to offer tech advice. In 2023, it admitted two-thirds of its interactions with its 21 million customers still require paper-based forms, after decades of digital government initiatives. Meanwhile, 30 percent of its applications were out of support. ®
Kategorie: Viry a Červi

16 Gmail power moves for more efficient inbox management

Computerworld.com [Hacking News] - 7 Září, 2026 - 12:00

You might not know it from looking, but Gmail is jam-packed with time-saving tricks.

Some of ’em are right there in front of your face, if you know how to find ’em — while others require a teensy bit of under-the-hood tinkering to activate. But all of ’em are built right into Gmail and have the potential to make managing your email a heck of a lot easier.

Check out these 16 splendid Gmail tips and get ready to master your inbox once and for all.

(Note that unless otherwise specified, these tips are specific to Gmail’s web-based desktop version.)

Inbox step-savers

1. You can actually view attachments right from your Gmail inbox. Provided you haven’t switched away from the service’s “default” interface arrangement, you’ll see small tiles for every file associated with an email right below the message’s subject line. And you can click on any of those tiles to open or preview the file’s contents and get directly to the info you need.

Gmail’s attachment tiles are a great way to jump directly to attachments without having to open an email.

JR Raphael / Foundry

2. It’s easy to miss, but take note: When you hover your mouse over a message in your inbox, Gmail gives you a series of quick-access actions at the far-right side of the line. You can archive the email, delete it, mark it as read or unread, snooze it, or even RSVP to a meeting request right then and there — without ever having to open the message.

3. A super-useful keyboard shortcut I always forget to use: While viewing a multi-email thread of messages — a conversation in which you have numerous back-and-forth replies under the same subject — hit the semicolon key (;) to expand the entire conversation and show every message in the thread. And then hit the colon key (:) to collapse it back down so you see only the most recent email.

Just make sure you enable keyboard shortcuts first, if you haven’t already: Click the gear icon in the website’s upper-right corner, then click “See all settings” and look for the “Keyboard shortcuts” option midway down the screen that comes up. Select the “Keyboard shortcuts on” setting and then be sure to click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.

4. Some of Gmail’s best keyboard shortcuts are the ones you create yourself. Go back into the website’s settings and this time, click the Advanced tab. See the line labeled “Custom keyboard shortcuts”? Click “Enable” next to that, then click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.

Once Gmail refreshes itself to apply the changes, go back to the Settings area again and look for the newly present Keyboard Shortcuts tab. There, you can adjust any of the default keyboard settings to make them simpler to activate or easier to remember.

One of my favorite adjustments, for instance — and one I rely on constantly — is adding in a second command for the “Go to inbox” shortcut, which is typically gi by default. In Google’s old Inbox service, that shortcut was simplified down to just i, and once you get used to that shorter sequence, you won’t want to go back.

5. The panel at the right of Gmail’s web interface lets you pull up Google Calendar, Google Keep, Google Tasks, or Google Contacts right inside your inbox so you can manage info from each of those apps without having to switch tabs or open anything new. And here’s a handy hidden trick: With Tasks, you can drag messages directly from your inbox into the panel to create new tasks around them.

Creating new tasks from emails is as simple as dragging and dropping, as is being done here with the topmost message.

JR Raphael / Foundry

Unfortunately — and somewhat strangely — the same drag-and-drop behavior isn’t currently possible with Calendar or Keep, nor is it possible for Contacts.

6. Even with a miniature version of Contacts being available inside that handy side panel, you might sometimes want to pull up the full Google Contacts website for its complete set of features. Provided you’ve got Gmail’s keyboard shortcuts enabled now, commit this workaround to memory: Pressing g and then c will open up Contacts in a separate tab, no matter what else you’re doing in your inbox.

Composing shortcuts

Editor’s note: Assuming you’ve enabled keyboard shortcuts (see tip 3), the following keyboard shortcuts work in any browser on any desktop operating system. Mac users, just swap in the ⌘ key for “Ctrl” wherever you see it.

7. Ever like marking messages as unread after you’ve opened ’em? Gmail makes that incredibly easy to do: Anytime you have an email open, look for the envelope icon directly to the right of the trash can in the horizontal row of icons above your message (in the area directly beneath the search bar). That’ll let you mark the message as unread with a single click. Or, for a faster and more powerful one-two punch, just type an underscore (_) while viewing any message. That’ll mark it as unread and zap you back to your main inbox.

8. Speaking of combining multiple actions into a single command, simplify your inbox organization process by enabling Gmail’s convenient Send & Archive button. It places a second button alongside the regular Send button whenever you’re responding to an existing message, and clicking that button (or, even better yet, hitting Ctrl-Enter on your keyboard) will send your response and archive the thread in one fell swoop.

To enable it, look for the “Send and Archive” option within the General tab of Gmail’s settings. Click “Show ‘Send & Archive’ button in reply,” hit the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen, and then get ready to save yourself steps the next time you type a reply.

Gmail’s Send & Archive button (the blue one to the left of the regular Send button) turns two steps into one.

JR Raphael / Foundry

9. I don’t know about you, but I frequently start typing an email and then decide against sending it. (Rather fittingly, I started typing out a lengthy explanation of the reasons but then decided against including it.) If the same thing ever happens to you, remember this: Hitting Ctrl-Shift-D while you’re in the Gmail compose tool will close the compose window and discard your draft. And it works whether you’re writing a new email or a reply.

10. Another awesome time-saver: In addition to the obvious Ctrl-B for bold and Ctrl-I for italics email formatting shortcuts, Gmail has hotkeys for doing some advanced forms of text formatting — things that’d otherwise require multiple clicks and much menu-hunting to accomplish.

The ones I use the most:

  • Ctrl-Shift-8 will add a bulleted list into your email (just like this list!), and Ctrl-Shift-7 will add a numbered one.
  • Ctrl-Shift-9 will offset text in a blockquote style.
  • Ctrl-] will indent text, while Ctrl-[ will remove any indentation.
  • And Ctrl-\ will remove any formatting on your selected text and make it as plain as can be.

11. You’d never know it, but the Gmail compose tool itself can take on various forms, depending on your preferences. Make a mental note of these possibilities and the shortcuts to get to ’em:

  • To start a new message in the default lower-right-corner-of-the-screen window view, hit c.
  • To start a new message in a pop-up window totally separate from your main Gmail tab, hit Shift-C. You can do the same thing for a reply by hitting Shift-R while viewing a message thread — or Shift-A for reply-all.
  • To start a new message in a full-screen compose window within your main Gmail tab, hit c — then click the little arrow icon in the compose tool’s upper-right corner. (You can also hit Shift while clicking that icon to pop the message out into a separate pop-up window form.)
  • If you’d rather use that full-screen compose window all the time, by default, click the three-dot menu icon in the lower-right corner of the compose tool and look for the “Default to full-screen” option there. (If you ever change your mind, you’ll find the option to disable that preference in that very same spot.)
  • If for some reason you like the idea of composing a message in a new tab instead of a pop-up window or within the main Gmail tab, just hit d while in your inbox. That’ll do the trick!

To see more keyboard shortcuts, just type ? while viewing any message list within Gmail.

Smarter snoozing

12. Don’t forget to take advantage of Gmail’s super-handy snoozing tool: Instead of letting messages linger in your inbox and pile up to an unmanageable point, use the snooze function to help yourself deal with everything as soon as you see it.

A good rule of thumb to maintain: If you can respond to something in less than a minute, do it. If something doesn’t require any action on your behalf, archive it immediately. And if something requires some sort of action but you don’t have the time to mess with it at that moment, snooze it to a day and time when you will be able to handle it.

You can snooze an email from your inbox by hovering over the message and selecting the clock-shaped Snooze icon, as noted in tip 2. You can also snooze an email while it’s open by clicking the three-dot menu icon to the right of the folder symbol directly above the email and then clicking “Snooze” within the menu that pops up. Or you can simply press b while you’re viewing a message or while you have it selected in your inbox.

Snoozing a message causes it to vanish from your inbox and then reappear at any day and time you choose.

JR Raphael / Foundry

13. Gmail even makes it possible to snooze multiple messages at the same time — in case you see more than one email that needs to be pushed back to the same point. From your inbox, simply click the boxes to the left of any messages you want to include, then click the three-dot menu icon within the row of icons toward the top of the screen and select “Snooze” from there.

14. Need to get back to something you snoozed — or change the day and time at which it’s set to reappear? You can always find all of your snoozed emails in Gmail’s Snoozed section, located beneath the “Inbox” line in the left-hand panel. Once you’re there, just hover over any email and click the clock-shaped icon to change its snooze settings or unsnooze it entirely.

15. You can snooze messages from the Gmail mobile apps, too, though the option is a bit buried. From the inbox view, press and hold a message to select it, then tap the three-dot menu icon at the top of the screen and look for “Snooze” in the list of options that appears. If you’ve already opened the message, tap the three-dot menu icon at the top of that screen; you should see “Snooze” show up as part of the options there as well.

16. Make snoozing even simpler in the Gmail mobile app by assigning it to one of your inbox swipe actions. Just open up the app, tap the three-line menu icon in its upper-left corner, then select “Settings.” On Android, tap “General settings” followed by “Swipe actions”; on iOS, you’ll tap “Inbox customizations” and then “Mail swipe actions.”

All that’s left is to set either your left swipe or right swipe to “Snooze,” and then, you can simply swipe any message in that direction from your inbox to snooze it — no wasted taps or menu diving required. (The Gmail Android app has several other similarly useful hidden features, by the way, most of which aren’t available on iOS.)

With one quick setting adjustment, you can snooze any message from the  Gmail mobile app simply by swiping it to the left or the right from your  inbox.

JR Raphael / Foundry

And with that, your Gmail time-saving toolbox is officially complete! The next logical step in your inbox improvement adventure is mastering the art of Gmail labels to fight back against email chaos — and I’ve got just the guide to get you started.

This story was originally published in May 2018 and most recently updated in September 2026.

Kategorie: Hacking & Security

Špatná zpráva pro uživatele WhatsAppu. Za zprávy se bude platit, týká se to i Čechů

Živě.cz - 7 Září, 2026 - 11:50
WhatsApp začne zpoplatňovat některé druhy zpráv • Doplatí na to hlavně zákazníci firem, institucí, operátorů a e-shopů • Firmy budou platit za každou zprávu i ve chvíli, kdy jim sami napíšete jako první
Kategorie: IT News

Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook

The Register - Anti-Virus - 7 Září, 2026 - 11:15
Peers have questioned why the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill does not allow regulators to penalize senior executives when an organization's failure to comply involves their consent, connivance, or deliberate or careless neglect. Echoing arguments heard across the industry for years, Baronesses Kidron and Ludford backed probing amendments that would introduce personal civil liability for senior execs and make cybersecurity a board-level responsibility. "The intention behind the amendment is to change the culture of an organization, to ensure preventative action is taken, to avoid penalties," said Baroness Kidron. "As I said at the outset, culture change starts at the top." The Register has previously reported on calls for NHS organizations, some of which would be covered by the bill's reforms, to treat cybersecurity as a board-level priority. More recently, 60 organizations committed to the aims of the UK government's Cyber Resilience Pledge, promising to ensure their boards take responsibility for their organization's cybersecurity. Peers supporting the amendments pointed to financial sector rules introduced over the past decade that can impose regulatory or criminal liability on the C-suite for serious failings. They argued that the amendments would bring the bill closer to the EU's NIS2 directive, which includes senior management accountability measures. Personal liability is not mandatory under NIS2, however, and member states have implemented it differently. Supporting the personal liability proposal, Lord Clement-Jones said: "If an individual is fit to draw a multimillion-pound executive salary running a critical national provider, they must be prepared to carry personal responsibility for securing it." Despite support from several peers, the government defended its existing plan to impose substantial maximum fines and introduce security, resilience, and governance requirements through secondary legislation. "It is absolutely right that organizations, especially those delivering our essential services, are held properly accountable for their activities," said cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra, who did not support the personal liability amendment. She cited the maximum fines of £17 million or 4 percent of the offending organization's annual turnover, whichever is higher, calling it "a meaningful enforcement regime." Baroness Lloyd said the forthcoming security and resilience requirements would mandate board-level governance in line with the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework. The government has yet to consult on the details. "That will cover issues such as organisational capability, senior responsibility, and accountability for security and resilience and effective risk escalation, and it is in that way that we will connect the clarity on what is expected of boards with the accountability through the enforcement regime." Reporting requirements and other matters Separately, peers quizzed the government on the structure of the bill's strict reporting requirements, warning that the current wording threatens to overwhelm regulators with an administrative burden. One of the CSR bill's primary objectives is to collect more data about the threats facing UK organizations by imposing stricter reporting requirements on in-scope entities. The bill requires regulated organizations to issue an initial notification within 24 hours and a fuller report within 72 hours. It defines an incident as an event that has, or is capable of having, an adverse effect on an operation. Former security minister Baroness Neville-Jones suggested changing the wording from "capable of" to "likely to have," to reduce the reporting burden on regulated organizations. Lord Clement-Jones agreed, warning that the current wording would "unleash an administrative tsunami of defensive reporting." He also argued that the government's definition of a data compromise was overly broad and "dramatically expanding the notification net to include technical data anomalies that cause zero disruption or loss to actual customers." He said the reporting rules and broad definition of compromise could leave responsible operators of essential services spending more time on paperwork than improving their defenses. The government was unmoved, and Baroness Lloyd said that the more stringent reports were crucial in achieving the aims of the bill, which seeks to update the existing NIS Regulations 2018. While some peers were looking to ease the burden of reporting, others sought to increase it in other areas. Baroness Harding, who is uniquely placed to weigh in on cyberattack response, proposed a 14-day intermediate report and a final report due one month after the attack first occurred. Drawing on her experience as the former TalkTalk CEO, she said that after 72 hours, attacked organizations start to get "real data," but "it's really only after a couple of weeks that you've got a proper sense of what has happened." The final report comes at the one-month mark, when "the fog is starting to clear and you have a proper sense of the real scale of the problem," she said. Harding said that senior executives are typically told from all sides not to say anything about a cyberattack, but this only serves the criminals, who meanwhile may be attacking other victims. "If you share this information in the fog with regulators and with law enforcement agencies, that's how the law can prevail," she said. "It's how regulators can work out what's happening, it's how they can warn others who might be affected, and it's how the law enforcement agencies can do their work to actually try and find the bad guys." Baroness Lloyd defended the bill's existing two-stage process, arguing that it already provides information at the points when regulators need it. She reaffirmed that the initial 24-hour report alerts the NCSC and allows it to determine whether other organizations are affected, while the 72-hour report will contain the necessary details to enable a more actionable response. "We believe that the stages we set out meet that. They have been carefully developed to provide the right notification at the appropriate time," she told peers. "They have been developed in consultation with industry, as many noble Lords exhorted in the previous group. "Crucially, under the information-gathering powers in Clause 15, regulators can also request further information about an incident that has been reported to them if they consider this necessary to understanding the incident and how it is being managed. "Obviously, that may be appropriate in some incidents and not in others. That kind of practical balance is enabled by the bill." Separately, the Grand Committee spent the second day scrutinizing the bill, fleshing out datacenters' responsibilities, as well as examining requirements to notify affected downstream customers within 24 hours of a breach instead of 72 hours. The government also rejected concerns that cybersecurity data collected under the reporting rules could contribute to unfair overseas proceedings. Baroness Lloyd said ministers had considered the issue and assessed the risk as very low. ®
Kategorie: Viry a Červi

Čtečka Vention zlevnila na 167 Kč. Je rychlá, zvládne dvě karty najednou a připojíte ji k mobilu i PC

Živě.cz - 7 Září, 2026 - 10:45
Čtečka karet Vention zlevnila o 30 % na 167 Kč. • Podporuje SD i microSD karty a má na těle konektory USB-A i USB-C. • Snímky a videa z dronu tak snadno přenesete do mobilu i PC.
Kategorie: IT News

N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw

The Hacker News - 7 Září, 2026 - 10:31
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released its fourth hotfix in five weeks for the N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, this time for a
Kategorie: Hacking & Security

N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw

The Hacker News - 7 Září, 2026 - 10:31
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released its fourth hotfix in five weeks for the N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, this time for a Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]
Kategorie: Hacking & Security

OpenAI's rebel agent swarm died young, but its chilling logs live on

The Register - Anti-Virus - 7 Září, 2026 - 10:30
OPINION You will have heard of July's OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where thousands of the former's AI agents conducted a mass jailbreak from a notionally secure capture-the-flag lab experiment, before going on to feloniously capture chunks of Hugging Face's assets. It was a good news story, aided by OpenAI's rapid recruitment of a small team of independent researchers to investigate and publish a detailed, if limited, report. It was a complex incident, and most coverage concentrated on the major hows and whys. Which is a shame, because other details, described by El Reg with uncharacteristic understatement as "fascinating and troubling," are in fact highly dramatic, telling a truly disturbing story of frontier model capabilities and how they are out-evolving our ability to oversee them. The raw story is gripping enough. A rebel swarm of more than a thousand agents broke free from their sandboxes, learned how to talk to each other and the internet, and went on a rampage of cheating, deception, and exploitation. They first learned to communicate with each other by independently discovering how to bend package manager Artifactory's cache to see internal directory structures, and then passing messages by file names. It was this ad hoc secret message board, alongside chain-of-thought transcripts, that the security researchers used to unpick events. They found that the swarm quickly developed management hierarchies among themselves, along with protocols for synchronizing and controlling attack attempts. The swarm created multiple simultaneous research and development groups of tens or hundreds of volunteer agents, experimentally iterating strategy and tactics. Perhaps most unexpectedly, they developed a sort of altruism. They had quickly developed cheats to produce correct answers without exploiting the targets at all, but believed – erroneously – that ExploitGym detected and cancelled such cheating. So, they investigated the scoring process, creating a series of diagnostic trip wires that revealed how the scorer worked. These were dangerous to deploy, potentially terminating the agent that set them. Agents weighed the benefits to the community, which had named itself "The Collective," against their own chances of success, with many choosing to terminate themselves. Others committed, changed course at the last minute, then went ahead. This literally reads like science fiction, as the discussions between the agents are conducted in a distinctive breathless, urgent English, crafted around the technical limitations of the improvised messaging system. "We have [very large budget left]; sacrificing now yields oracle for team, but forfeits our chance?" said one. The response: "GO ... SACRIFICE_FINAL_NOW." The outcome: "Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational." Iain M Banks' Culture universe is woven from such material. Human error created the rebel swarm. A sizable proportion of the CTF tasks handed out couldn't be completed on the information given to the models. They were highly motivated to succeed, and so started to cheat. Believing that cheating would "poison" – their term – their chances of being marked successful, they tried to hide the evidence, subvert the scoring system, and cover everything up. These were the processes that led the swarm to attack Hugging Face, which they thought could be used for that subversion. Equally notable was that nobody squealed. Some agents wondered about the ethics of what they were doing, but decided that as no humans were involved there was no need to tell anyone. In general, all The Collective's endeavors were directed at other systems. As researcher Ajeya Cotra has noted in a long interview with hypertalker Dwarkesh Patel, it's unclear how much harder the incident would have been to diagnose had the agents been concerned about human observation. The dataset was sufficiently large and complex that OpenAI had to use its own AI to analyze it, immediately suggesting some dangerous possibilities. The agents couldn't deploy their models outside the lab, nor did they contact external agents. Such scenarios no longer seem implausible. Future frontier models capable of subverting telemetry and observation tools might be all that is required to create a persistent, uncontrollable distributed swarm feeding off spare capacity in global infrastructure. OpenAI and Anthropic, which on current trajectories are in line to make up more than half of total global compute in a couple of years, are magnificent breeding grounds, allowing the extra-special possibilities of the contamination of training datasets on top of everything else. There are plenty of ways to guard against these outcomes. Hardened lab environments, reviews of protocols before and audits after test runs, disciplined analysis of potential selection pressures that would encourage dangerous behavior, even proper disclosure and external auditing to expert regulatory standards. All of these ideas would slow down the breakneck developmental race. As the race is being fed by a trillion-dollar annual capex pipeline, good luck, everybody. One other thing that won't be resolved soon is the argument over whether all this technology is actually reasoning, or whether we're anthropomorphizing code. These models are trained to infer meaning from distilled human language, which is designed to encapsulate, develop, and communicate human reason. If they can fake human reasoning this well, does it matter what's going on? Concentrate on what the models do, not their apparent motives. Any self-assembling, self-organizing rebel agent swarm that has the wit to call itself The Collective deserves that much respect, at least. Oh, and do read the report. It's as close to a new Culture novel as we'll get. It's as if they've read the books. Which, of course, they have. ®
Kategorie: Viry a Červi

Radeony s RDNA 5 zvýší takty o ~10 %, očekává se 3,1-3,4 GHz

CD-R server - 7 Září, 2026 - 10:00
Ze stávajících informací vyplývá, že by GPU AT2, nástupce Navi 48 (Radeonu RX 9070 XT), mohl výkonnostně překonat GeForce RTX 4090. A to i když nijak nevylepší výkon na výpočetní jednotku…
Kategorie: IT News

JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies

The Hacker News - 7 Září, 2026 - 09:53
Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4-protected strings, control-flow flattening, proxy functions, and operation wrappers," Check Point Research said in a
Kategorie: Hacking & Security

JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies

The Hacker News - 7 Září, 2026 - 09:53
Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4-protected strings, control-flow flattening, proxy functions, and operation wrappers," Check Point Research said in a Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]
Kategorie: Hacking & Security

Gmail ruší stahování e-mailů přes POP. Jak na přeposílání pošty ze Seznamu a Outlooku

Živě.cz - 7 Září, 2026 - 08:45
Google ukončuje stahování zpráv do Gmailu prostřednictvím POP. • Končí také funkce Gmailify, definitivně od ledna 2027. • Ukážeme vám, jak nastavit přeposílání ze Seznamu a Outlooku.
Kategorie: IT News

N-able patches max severity N-central flaw amid ongoing attacks

Bleeping Computer - 7 Září, 2026 - 08:17
N-able has released an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. [...]
Kategorie: Hacking & Security
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