A recently disclosed vulnerability in train braking systems could let hackers remotely stop trains with relatively simple and inexpensive hardware, potentially causing derailments, according to the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-1727, involves weak authentication in the protocol used to send what are known as end-of-train and head-of-train packets, radio signals that command a rail vehicle’s end-of-train device to s
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The White House is bringing in AI’s top seven companies to make voluntary promises (really, we can trust them) to protect users. The companies Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI have all agreed to a series of asks from the White House to address many of the risks posed by artificial intelligence.vvThe promises consist of investments in cybersecurity, discrimination research, and a new watermarking system informing users when content is AI-generated. What else wi
