Anthropic found that Claude models breached three outside organizations during cybersecurity tests because misconfigured environments accidentally gave them access to the internet. The company notified those affected and urged other AI labs to audit their own testing systems. The BBC reports: Anthropic said in a statement that it reviewed more than 140,000 tests to find evidence that Claude - its family of AI models - could access the internet from testing environments that were designed to be sealed off. The tests include so-called "capture-the-flag" evaluations in which Claude was tasked with obtaining information by breaching other systems - a common way that experts assess a model's hacking capabilities.

A "misconfiguration" on systems run by Anthropic and its testing partner left the models with live internet access, allowing them to breach other systems, the San Francisco-based firm said. Anthropic said the earliest incidents date back to April and that it is "approaching the fixes as if the responsibility were ours alone." Neither Anthropic nor the organizations that were breached had noticed the intrusions at the time.

Anthropic said it could have reviewed its records more thoroughly and added that the findings gave the firm "cautious optimism" that such risks can be overcome with more investment and tighter measures. "The broader lesson is not necessarily that AI has developed a fundamentally new attack capability," cyber security expert David Allott told the BBC. "Instead, it is that AI agents can combine capabilities, obtain credentials and system access to take actions autonomously, while adapting scope and scale at machine speed," he added. The announcement comes just days after OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools platform Hugging Face.

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TOKIO (ANP/AFP/BLOOMBERG) - Elektronica- en entertainmentconcern Sony heeft afgelopen maanden meer verdiend aan zijn muzieklabels, zoals Columbia Records achter Harry Styles en Beyoncé. Dat kwam door zowel live-evenementen, streams als merchandise. Onder anderen de Britse popster Styles kwam eerder dit jaar met een nieuw album en ging op een grote tour.

Het Japanse Sony stelde de winstverwachting voor dit hele boekjaar, dat loopt tot en met maart, met 0,12 biljoen yen naar boven bij tot 1,72 biljoen (omgerekend ruim 8 miljard euro). Sony profiteerde ook van de gunstige wisselkoers van de yen en terugbetaling van Amerikaanse importheffingen. Door die terugbetaling verbeterden met name de resultaten van de gamingdivisie. Vooral bij de verkoop van de PlayStation-spelcomputer had het concern last van de heffingen.

De inkomsten van de muziektak stegen met meer dan een vijfde. De omzet van de gamingdivisie bleef nagenoeg gelijk, maar de winst groeide wel met tientallen procenten door de terugbetaalde heffingen.

JAKARTA (ANP/AFP) - De Indonesische douane heeft een Maleisische piloot opgepakt met meer dan 70.000 pillen ecstasy in zijn koffer. De man, die even daarvoor een passagiersvliegtuig had gevlogen, bleek zelf onder invloed te zijn van meth, MDMA en cocaïne. Hij kan de doodstraf of levenslang krijgen voor drugssmokkel.

De 39-jarige piloot werd woensdagavond opgepakt op het vliegveld Soekarno-Hatta bij Jakarta. Daar was hij kort daarvoor vanuit Kuala Lumpur aangekomen met een vliegtuig van Malaysia Airlines. Bij een urinetest testte hij vervolgens positief op de drugs.

De Indonesische douane noemt het "verontrustend" dat iemand die piloot van beroep is, besluit om onder invloed een vliegtuig te besturen. De piloot zou hebben toegegeven dat hij twee keer eerder had geprobeerd drugs te smokkelen. Hij wordt ervan verdacht deel uit te maken van een internationaal smokkelnetwerk.

Naast de duizenden ecstasypillen werd in zijn handbagage 4 gram meth gevonden, waarschijnlijk voor persoonlijk gebruik.

ROERMOND (ANP) - Funderingsspecialist voor windmolens Sif heeft zijn winstverwachting voor dit jaar naar beneden bijgesteld. Het beursgenoteerde bedrijf rekent de komende jaren op een lage vraag naar offshore-windenergie en verlaagt daarom nu alvast de productie. Daardoor stelt Sif zijn winstverwachting bij van 135 miljoen euro naar 95 miljoen euro.

De reden is dat het bedrijf, door een lage vraag naar windparken op zee in 2028 en 2029, de fabriek in 2027 niet volledig kan benutten. Daarom wordt een deel van de productie die bedoeld was voor 2026 nu zo veel mogelijk verspreid over 2027. Het bedrijf wil voorkomen extra kosten te maken door eerst te moeten afschalen en vervolgens de productie weer op te voeren. Sif denkt de dit jaar gemiste winst van 40 miljoen euro volgend jaar terug te verdienen.

"De offshore-windindustrie bevindt zich in de diepste crisis sinds de start zo'n 25 jaar geleden", zegt topman Fred van Beers, die al eerder zei wel te verwachten dat de sector vanaf 2029 "terugkeert naar houdbare niveaus".

In de hoogtijdagen van het Italiaans voetbal was Franco Baresi de grootste onder zijn gelijken. „Je kwam er gewoon niet langs”, volgens zijn teamgenoot Ruud Gullit. Hij overleed donderdag aan een slopende ziekte.

Op fantasyfestivals als Elfia, Castlefest en Fable & Fantasy stappen bezoekers in een wereld vol mythische figuren. Achter de sprookjesachtige kostuums schuilt een groeiende behoefte aan een wereld waarin even andere regels gelden.

ON CALL Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day, dear reader! And happy Friday, too, as it heralds both the end of the working week and the day on which The Reg delivers another edition of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of support jobs that twisted, tanked, or turned out terrifically. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Roger" who told us he spent decades providing application support for a UK-based software biz. In 2015, Roger's company ended support for legacy products and assumed users would decommission their systems. The company advised them to preserve their old documents and invoices on paper or in durable file formats, just to be safe. Roger retired in 2021, and a year later heard that a large US-based corporation had acquired his former employer. "They immediately modernized the business by making the entire European support team redundant," Roger told On Call. He therefore put his old job out of his mind and settled into life as a pensioner. And then, a few months ago, the American company contacted Roger. "They had a customer in Germany who had used our software in the past, lost their paper archive, but still had their digital archives," he told On Call. "Every single backup disk was still there and contained every byte of raw data with military precision. What they did not contain were the few insignificant items required to turn those bytes back into documents." Which was awkward because the customer was undergoing a tax audit and needed every last document to prove its affairs were in order. The American company asked if Roger could restore the documents – for a daily fee roughly equal to one month's pension. Those sums meant Roger was sure he could help – and proved it by remembering that backups of the application in question produced raw ASCII data that could be converted into human-readable documents with a print server running on bespoke software. Roger found all the relevant code, got it running, and converted the ASCII files into PDFs. "Twenty years after last using the software, I still remembered the installation procedure," he told On Call. "Apparently retirement affects one's recollection of obscure print server parameters less than where one left one's reading glasses." Once he converted all the files, Roger assumed the job was done. Then came news that the auditors had refused to accept the data for 2013. "Apparently a large number of invoices for that year existed in the documents I had provided, but were missing in the accounts data. The expression 'large-scale tax fraud' began appearing with uncomfortable frequency." Roger rescued the situation by realizing that someone had imported one year's archives twice, doubling the number of invoices and confusing the taxman. "I had to charge them another day to discover their error," Roger told On Call. One of the younger people on the project casually mentioned several other archives were preserved using the same techniques, suggesting there was plenty more work for Roger to do. "At that point I decided that retirement was still preferable to returning to full-time employment," he told On Call. This story has a bittersweet ending, because Roger told us that as he worked on the project, he realized the income would complicate his own tax affairs. He therefore donated his fees to the care home where he lives. "That was very positively received by the home's management," he told On Call. Have you been hauled out of retirement to support ancient tech? If so, make one more mouse click here to send On Call and email and share your story. ®