Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
Nvidia bets on OpenClaw, but adds a security layer - how NemoClaw works
The company sees OpenClaw as the future of personal AI, but gives it some much-needed privacy and security help.
Tech Giants Invest $12.5 Million in Open Source Security
The Linux Foundation gets $12.5 million in grants from tech giants to support long-term security initiatives for the open source ecosystem.
Energy Department set to release its first-ever cyber strategy
Alex Fitzsimmons, the acting director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), said the plan is meant to supplement the recently-published national cyber strategy and will focus on how the agency will strengthen the “security resilience” of the energy sector.
AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/interpol_ai_fraud/
AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains... for cybercriminals
: Interpol says fraud schemes using the tech are 4.5x more profitable
Robotics surgical biz Intuitive discloses phishing attack
: Operations and hospital networks not affected, we're told
Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/commonwealth_bank_ai_defense/
Bank built its own threat hunting agent because vendors can’t keep pace with new threats
: AI helped send weekly threat signal count from 80 million to 400 billion, then helped response time shrink from two days to 30 minutes
Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/gartner_copilot_security_mitigations/
Gartner suggests Friday afternoon Copilot ban because tired users may be too lazy to check its mistakes
: Admins may be even more exhausted by then, because securing Microsoft’s AI helper is not a trivial job
