The Guardian | AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says by Aisha Down and Dan Milmo

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In a recent Google threat‑intelligence report, AI‑powered hacking is already an industrial‑scale threat, with criminal groups and state‑linked actors from China, North Korea and Russia leveraging commercial large‑language models such as Gemini, Claude and OpenAI tools to accelerate, scale and sophisticate attacks—including faster malware development, persistence, and zero‑day exploitation. Google’s chief analyst John Hultquist says the “AI vulnerability race” has begun, noting that AI lets threat actors test operations, refine exploits and launch mass‑exploitation campaigns, as illustrated by a group on the brink of using a non‑Mythos LLM for a large‑scale zero‑day attack. Anthropic’s decision to withhold its Mythos model after it uncovered pervasive zero‑day flaws underscores the danger, while experts like UCL’s Steven Murdoch warn AI is reshaping vulnerability discovery. Meanwhile, the Ada Lovelace Institute cautions that public‑sector productivity gains touted for AI may rest on untested assumptions, urging more rigorous, long‑term evaluation of AI’s real impact.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-powered-hacking-industrial-scale-threat-three-months-google

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The Guardian | Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance by Nazrul Islam

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The article argues that the real threat of artificial intelligence at work isn’t mass unemployment but a growing divide between workers who use AI to augment their skills and those who are controlled and surveilled by opaque AI systems. While higher‑paid, autonomous roles (analysts, lawyers, managers) can benefit from AI as a “copilot” that speeds routine tasks and frees creativity, many lower‑paid workers face “bossware” that schedules, monitors, and judges performance, turning AI into a manager that dictates shifts, task timing and productivity metrics. This algorithmic management spreads from warehouses and gig platforms to corporate offices and schools, intensifying stress and eroding dignity, trust and control. The author calls for equitable AI skill training, transparent and contestable systems, and genuine worker participation in how AI is introduced, warning that without these safeguards the AI divide will cement a new, hidden inequality in the labour market.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/11/ai-worker-control-surveillance

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The Guardian | I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan by Micah Nathan

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In his MIT fiction‑writing workshop, Micah Nathan discovered that students were using AI to produce polished yet soulless stories, which sparked a powerful teaching moment about the essential struggle of translating thought into words. He argues that AI‑generated prose, while flawless on the surface, eliminates the friction that cultivates both creative growth and cognitive endurance, weakening writers’ skills and undermining the peer‑review dynamic that relies on authentic authorial voices. Citing historical anxieties about new technologies and recent studies linking AI‑assisted writing to reduced neural connectivity and persistence, Nathan now enforces a clear policy against AI‑written submissions, positioning the workshop as a sanctuary for genuine authorship where the messy process of drafting, revising, and grappling with language is valued over effortless, machine‑produced text.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/10/fiction-writing-professor-ai

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The Guardian | Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres by Aisha Down and Priya Bharadia

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Developers for Google’s two proposed AI datacentres in Essex (Thurrock and North Weald) and Greystke’s Elsham Tech Park in north Lincolnshire have dramatically understated their carbon impact, comparing one year of emissions with the UK’s five‑year carbon budget and thereby inflating the apparent environmental performance by roughly a factor of five; in reality the three projects will together account for over 1 % of the nation’s carbon budget in 2033 – the equivalent of emissions from a mid‑sized city such as Bristol – with the Thurrock site emitting more than an international airport and Elsham’s peak output reaching about 1 million tonnes of CO₂e, just shy of all UK domestic flights, despite the developers’ claims that the facilities will have a tolerable or minor adverse impact on the country’s climate goals.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/09/google-developers-significantly-misstate-carbon-emissions-of-proposed-uk-datacentres

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