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Submarine cable security is all at sea, and UK govt 'too timid' to act, says report

The Register - Mon, 29/09/2025 - 09:01
Guess how much of our direct transatlantic data capacity runs through two cables in Bude?

Feature  The first transatlantic cable, laid in 1858, delivered a little over 700 messages before promptly dying a few weeks later. 167 years on, the undersea cables connecting the UK to the outside world process £220 billion in daily financial transactions. Now, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on National Security Strategy (JCNSS) has told the government that it has to do a better job of protecting them.…

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When AI is trained for treachery, it becomes the perfect agent

The Register - Mon, 29/09/2025 - 08:15
We’re blind to malicious AI until it hits. We can still open our eyes to stopping it

Opinion  Last year, The Register reported on AI sleeper agents. A major academic study explored how to train an LLM to hide destructive behavior from its users, and how to find it before it triggered. The answers were unambiguously asymmetric — the first is easy, the second very difficult. Not what anyone wanted to hear.…

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Trump demands Microsoft fire its head of global affairs

The Register - Mon, 29/09/2025 - 04:24
Alleges bias and security problems

US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…

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