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Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for 75 simultaneous interviews with journalists, and it seems to be making mistakes in all of them. (I was not invited to speak with it, and frankly, I cannot imagine why Particle6 didn’t want to schedule that meeting.) In one particularly odd interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, which was recorded and posted online, Norwood seems to malfunction and abruptly begin speaking Chinese. When discussing the movie that Norwood is promoting,…

Ravie LakshmananSep 19, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Web Security Google’s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The incidents occurred in May 2026 as part of a test run conducted by Israeli company Irregular. The evaluation partner was also involved in similar hacks disclosed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. According to the Journal, the model gained access to a protected system after repeatedly guessing its password. Two other cases related to the model finding credentials…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our daily news show ‘FOMO HOUR’ covering all of the top stories and market action.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are green with HYPE leading, alts soaring; BTC at $78k SEC announces innovation exemption for tokenized stocks; alts soar 10-20% CFTC issued no-action letter, easing broker rules Hyperliquid soared to $90+ and new ATH and introduced protocol lending/borrowing Onchain leaders post 10-30% gains following alts BitcoinBTC · USD$81,339+5.16%24H7D1M1YYTDSep 12Sep 14Sep 15Sep 17Sep 19$81.7k$79.6k$77.5k$75.5k24h HighHigh$81,67524h LowLow$77,934VolVol$1.6BMarket projectionsOdds…

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with climate scientist Michael Mann. As the United Nations prepares to hold a climate summit in late September, it’s warning that current climate policies will lead to at least 1.8 degrees Celsius of global warming, well beyond the 1.5 degrees of the Paris Agreement. This year recorded one of the hottest summers globally, with deadly heat waves in Europe and catastrophic floods in Nepal, and July became the single-hottest month ever recorded in the U.S. Despite the evidence of growing danger, the…

It must have come as a surprise to Ed Sheeran when all of his support acts withdrew from the remainder of the US leg of his tour. The American rapper Macklemore had triggered the walkout when he gave an impassioned speech calling for a “free Palestine” on stage and was dropped for doing so. The decision by the remaining acts to drop out in solidarity exposed a deep divide in the modern music industry. Some artists still insist on keeping politics out of music, while others expect music to speak to our perilous times.After he was dropped, Macklemore wrote that…

The landscapes of southern England and Wales are slowly regaining their colour after this summer’s extreme heat.The UK’s hottest summer on record left the south of the country dried out and brown, making the impact of the drought particularly visual.As autumn begins, large parts of the UK are still officially in drought. And even if autumn is wetter than normal, some could still be in drought in the spring, according to the Environment Agency.Clissold Park, in north-east London, at the end of July. Photograph: Richard Barnes/AlamyBut some rain has returned, and with it the green, to the relief of many.…

Although little-known, NATO’s military committee is the alliance’s most senior military authority, with the chair expected to give honest military advice to allies — helping assess the feasibility, financing and capabilities of operations. They oversee dozens of working groups of NATO military staff, and broker consensus on formulating military advice. The position is a “highly complex role,” said Eleonora Russell, the spokesperson of former chair Adm. Rob Bauer, because it requires simultaneously gaining the trust of both the military and the political leadership across the alliance — and not taking sides.  Such a role is particularly challenging today given enduring…

For Nigel Farage, the £72m lavished last week on his party by the crypto billionaire donors Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne finally places Reform UK on a level playing field with its political rivals.The donations are the largest received by a UK political party since declarations became required in 2001 and led to warnings Farage was aiming to “buy” his way to power, with a row still raging over whether they are legal.Yet among Reform’s grassroots, the fattening of party coffers comes with challenges of its own, with some activists less than impressed by Farage’s announcement that the money would…

For more than a century, World’s Fairs have given people a first glimpse of what’s next: breakthroughs, ideas, and ways of living that would go on to reshape the everyday. WIRED will reimagine that tradition in Miami on November 4 with the WIRED World Fair.This one-day event brings the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life. At the Sacred Space in Miami’s Wynwood district, we’ll host conversations with luminaries from biotechnology, politics, artificial intelligence, and beyond.The Onion will be there, and a researcher whose life’s work is decoding the language of dolphins.…

Ravie LakshmananSep 19, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. “Orkes Conductor 3.21.21 before 3.30.2 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands by submitting inline workflow definitions containing malicious JavaScript or Python expressions to the workflow API endpoint prior to authentication,” a description of the flaw on the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) reads. “Attackers…