OpenAI Introduces Aardvark, an Agentic Security Researcher That Can Find and Fix Vulnerabilities

OpenAI has unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) agent called Aardvark that can act as a software security researcher. Built on GPT-5, the agent can analyse code, detect vulnerabilities, and propose fixes. Currently in private beta, Aardvark is being tested by partner organisations. OpenAI says the tool aims to make software systems more secure by automating vulnerability detection and remediation.

Derek Owusu: ‘I didn’t read a book until the age of 24’

The writer on bingeing Henry James, his friendship with Benjamin Zephaniah and a confidence-boosting classic

My earliest reading memory
When I was about four or five, I think. I was living in Long Melford, Suffolk, with my foster parents, and my foster dad was trying to teach me how to read using those Biff and Chip books.

My favourite book growing up
I never read a book until the age of 24, so there wasn’t a favourite until I was about 25, and they usually changed with every new book I read. It started with St Mawr by DH Lawrence, then EM Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread and The Time Machine by HG Wells, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and then it was F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby for a very long time. But that lost its place last year when I finally read The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov.

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MediaTek Dimensity 8500 SoC Architecture, Specifications Leaked

MediaTek Dimensity 8500 chip, expected to succeed the Dimensity 8400 SoC, could be manufactured using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 4nm process, a tipster revealed. This comes a month after the tech firm launched its flagship Dimensity 9500 chip. Earlier reports suggest that the Dimensity 8500 SoC will be featured on the Xiaomi 17T and the Honor Power 2, which might carry a 10,000mAh battery.