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"Heather Adkins, Google's vice president of security, announced Monday that its LLM-based vulnerability researcher Big Sleep found and reported 20 flaws in various popular open source software," reports TechCrunch: Adkins said that Big Sleep, which is developed by the company's AI department DeepMind as well as its elite team of hackers Project Zero, reported its first-ever vulnerabilities, mostly in open source software such as audio and video library FFmpeg and image-editing suite ImageMagick. [There's also a "medium impact" issue in Redis] Given that the vulnerabilities are not fixed yet, we don't have details of their impact or severity, as Google does not yet want to provide details, which is a standard policy when waiting for bugs to be fixed. But the simple fact that Big Sleep found these vulnerabilities is significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if there was a human involved in this case. "To ensure high quality and actionable reports, we have a human expert in the loop before reporting, but each vulnerability was found and reproduced by the AI agent without human intervention," Google's spokesperson Kimberly Samra told TechCrunch. Google's vice president of engineering posted on social media that this demonstrates "a new frontier in automated vulnerability discovery."

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Aalborg Zoo, in northern Denmark is running a programme where people can donate their pets to be euthanised and fed to the animals.

High August is when childhood's freedoms are forged. The school holiday stretches to the horizon, offering endless scope for adventure.

The Welsh government has supported the Mbale Tree Planting Project to tackle climate change, improve the livelihoods of Ugandans and promote gender equality for female workers.

A pair of German researchers showed how easy it is

Black Hat  Four countries have now tested anti-satellite missiles (the US, China, Russia, and India), but it's much easier and cheaper just to hack them.…

Every week millions of us do our bit. We rinse yoghurt pots, flatten packaging, and sort plastic into the right bins. But most of that plastic isn't recycled in the UK.

Antonio Simoes says Rachel Reeves needs. to focus on 'creating the right conditions' that would 'encourage' funds to back the UK economy.

Epitomising the return of Cool Britannia were the Lionesses, with the England football team in Marks & Spencer tailoring, draped with national flags on their victory bus.

Underlying earnings at Oasis Healthcare soared from £8 million to £18.9 million in 2024, partly driven by a growth in private treatments.

And with interest rates cut to 4 per cent, the managers of the UK-focused trust are very much in a positive mood.

Four times as many will pay tax on their hard-earned savings this year compared with 2021-22.

The 61-year-old Londoner has remixed songs for U2, Madonna and the Rolling Stones among other artists, and was voted No 1 DJ in the world in 1998 and 1999.

Mr Woodford passionately believes he is innocent of any wrongdoing and has appealed against the regulator's decision.

I called TSB's fraud line, but the person who answered wanted to know about a fraudulent transaction and refused to accept that the new account itself was the fraud.

If Government policies push it up and the Bank of England fails to curb it, then it's ordinary people who are hammered.

The number of significant shareholder protests has more than doubled so far this year compared with a year ago, with 11 FTSE 100 companies seeing revolts of more than 20 per cent.

The actor, 31, who has played Jay Brown for 19 years, was suspended by the broadcaster in June after being caught backstage at Strictly using a slur aimed at disabled people.

The Irish comedian, 54, and This Morning host, 48, who share sons Milo, seven, and James, five, announced last week that they had taken the decision to end their 12 year marriage.

A professional trapper had one question about the wild pig he'd found in California. Why was its flesh blue? The Los Angeles Times explains: [California's Department of Fish and Wildlife] is now warning trappers and hunters to keep an eye out for possibly contaminated wildlife in the area, and not to consume the tainted meat, over concerns the blue meat is a sign that the animal may have consumed poison.... The startling find of wild pigs with bright blue tissue in Monterey County suggests the animals have been exposed to anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone, a popular poison used by farmers and agriculture companies to control the population of rats, mice, squirrels and other small animals, according to a statement from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. "Hunters should be aware that the meat of game animals, such as wild pig, deer, bear and geese, might be contaminated if that game animal has been exposed to rodenticides," said Ryan Bourbor, pesticide investigations coordinator with the state agency. Diphacinone has been prohibited in California since 2024 (with exceptions for government agencies sor their certified Vector Control Technicians). The state's Fish and Wildlife department says anyone who finds wildlife with blue fat or tissue should contact the state's wildlife officials. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the news.

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Suleiman al-Obeid, 41, was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza on Thursday while waiting to receive humanitarian aid, according to the Palestine FA.