Attack of the killer script kiddies
…Security researchers can help us try to wrap our heads around the scale of bugs being discovered. Before Becker started working on automatic bug finding with AI, he worked on vulnerability research…
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Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over
…That’s major for several reasons, but perhaps the most important one is that it could help defang the anti-sunscreen movement. Anti-sunscreen fears flared up in 2019 and 2021 after…
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
…The crowd was repeatedly encouraged to get loud, and at one point, for some reason, “Dragostea din tei” — aka the Numa Numa song — blared before fading into an obscure Eminem remix. Between…
Artificial Intelligence
…Victoria Song May 15 Stevie Bonifield May 15 Researchers used Mythos to crack macOS. Researchers at the security firm Calif say they used Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI to create a privilege escalation…
LexisNexis CEO: The AI law era is here
…To his credit, he was game — but you can see how taking the company from one that provides simple research tools to one that provides actual legal reasoning with AI will have…
Cybersecurity
…Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports Stevie Bonifield May 18 Stevie Bonifield May 15 Researchers used Mythos to crack macOS. Researchers at the security…
Climate Change
…Choosing the right model for the right task is important,” Hugging Face research scientist Sasha Luccioni tells Bloomberg . The Rise of AI Reasoning Models Comes With a Big Energy Tradeoff [ Bloomberg ] Trump…
Sam Altman was winning on the stand, but it might not be enough
…I don’t think any one person should have control of the world’s first AGI — in fact the whole reason we started OpenAI was so that wouldn’t happen.” He went…
AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle
…experts warn scams like this are growing every day. “It’s massive,” Jeremy Carrasco, a researcher of AI-generated media and director of Riddance.ai, an organization that focuses on AI video…
Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse
…In a blog post, Moussouris detailed how researchers jailbroke guardrails that prevent Fable 5 from finding exploitable security holes, one of the unfettered Mythos 5’s scariest capabilities. The model would refuse…