Elena Lazar: Failures are Inevitable – Reliability is a Choice
Reliability engineer on why resilience must be designed, not patched, and how decades of global experience taught her to turn outages into insights.
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AI Meeting Assistants Are Rising – But Is Your Data Safe? A Deep Look at TicNote AI
AI meeting assistants have become essential tools for professionals who want fast, accurate, and automated transcription. Yet behind…
New “HashJack” attack can hijack AI browsers and assistants
Security researchers at Cato Networks have uncovered a new indirect prompt injection technique that can force popular AI browsers and assistants to deliver phishing links or disinformation (e.g., incorrect medicine dosage guidance or investment advice)…
India Entering Golden Era of Defence Innovation Says Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh declared that India is entering a "golden era of defence innovation" during his address at the Swavlamban 2025 event, held at the Manekshaw Centre.He emphasised the need for India to move beyond a reactive approach to adopt a proactive outlook to become future-ready amid rapid geopolitical changes.Singh urged the private sector to adopt a "profit-plus" mindset,
Can We Trust AI with Our Cybersecurity? The Growing Importance of AI Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps us in doing small and big things that are important in our daily lives.…
AI Agent Security Firm Vijil Raises $17 Million
Focusing on improving the resilience of AI agents, the startup will use the funding to accelerate deployments of its platform.
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Four Ways AI Is Being Used to Strengthen Democracies Worldwide
Democracy is colliding with the technologies of artificial intelligence. Judging from the audience reaction at the recent World Forum on Democracy in Strasbourg, the general expectation is that democracy will be the worse for it. We have another narrative. Yes, there are risks to democracy from AI, but there are also opportunities.
We have just published the book Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform Politics, Government, and Citizenship. In it, we take a clear-eyed view of how AI is undermining confidence in our information ecosystem, how the use of biased AI can harm constituents of democracies and how elected officials with authoritarian tendencies can use it to consolidate power. But we also give positive examples of how AI is transforming democratic governance and politics for the better…
Canadian PM Carney To Visit India Early 2026 As Indo-Canada CEPA Talks Commence
India and Canada are accelerating diplomatic and economic engagement following Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s acceptance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation for an early 2026 visit.This follows a bilateral meeting at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg where both leaders agreed to launch negotiations on a high-ambition Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
Microsoft Highlights Security Risks Introduced by New Agentic AI Feature
Without proper security controls, AI agents could perform malicious actions, such as data exfiltration and malware installation.
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AI attack agents are accelerators, not autonomous weapons: the Anthropic attack
Why today’s AI attack agents boost human attackers but still fall far from becoming real autonomous weapons. Anthropic recently published a report that sparked a lively debate about what AI agents can actually do during a cyberattack. The study shows an AI system, trained specifically for offensive tasks, handling 80–90% of the tactical workload in […]