Perspective.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/uk_russia_cyber_war/
UK may already be at war with Russia, ex-MI5 head suggests
The former head of MI5 says hostile cyberattacks and intelligence operations directed by The Kremlin indicate the UK might already be at war with Russia.
Baroness Manningham-Buller, who served as Director General of the intelligence agency from 2002 to 2007 and was the second woman to fill the role, made the claim on Lord Speaker's Corner, the podcast of the House of Lords.
She was referencing previous comments from Fiona Hill, the British-American foreign affairs expert who advised the White House on Vladimir Putin and Russia during Donald Trump's first term.
"Since the invasion of Ukraine, and the various things I read that the Russians have been doing here, sabotage, intelligence collection, attacking people, and so on... Fiona Hill, I think she may be right in saying we're already at war with Russia," the Baroness told podcast host Lord McFall of Alcluith.
"It's a different sort of war, but the hostility, the cyberattacks, the physical attacks, intelligence work, is extensive," she said.
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The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables
Last November, a distinctive blue and white vessel set sail from a secluded inlet of Russia’s Kola Peninsula on a three-month voyage. The ship, seemingly a civilian craft, sailed around Norway, down the English Channel and up into the Irish Sea, before looping southwards to the Mediterranean and east towards Suez.
But this was no pleasure cruise of Europe’s Atlantic coastline: Moscow’s military spy ship Yantar, kitted with a full armoury of surveillance equipment, was on a mission to map and potentially intercept the undersea cables on which Nato allies rely for internet access, energy, military communications and financial transactions.
Perspective.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/09/artificial-intelligence-may-not-be-artificial/
Artificial intelligence may not be artificial
The term artificial intelligence renders the sense that what computers do is either inferior to or at least apart from human intelligence. AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that may not be the case.
Agüera y Arcas, Google’s CTO of technology and society, traced the evolution of both human and artificial intelligence in ways that seem to mirror each other as part of a Wednesday event sponsored by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.
“Why has the computational power of brains, not just of AI models, grown explosively throughout evolution?” said Agüera y Arcas, the author of the new book “What Is Intelligence? Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds.” “If we rewind 500 million years, we see only things with very small brains, and if we go back a billion years, we see no brains at all.”
According to Agüera y Arcas, human brains evolved to be computational, meaning that they process information by transforming various kinds of inputs into signals or outputs, and that most of the computation that brains do takes the form of predictions, which is what AI systems do.
“I hear a lot of people say that it’s a metaphor to talk about brains as computers,” said Agüera y Arcas. “I don’t mean this metaphorically. I mean it very literally … The premise of computational neuroscience is that what brains do is process information, not that they are like computers, but that they are computers.”
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