Cyberattack good news and bad news on the AI front: Large language models are helping sophisticated cyberattackers boost their productivity, while less-skilled attackers still have trouble turning their ideas to reality, researchers find.
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AI models are growing more powerful every day and the people building the technology are asking for Congress to set clear guardrails on safety, transparency and preventing catastrophic risk.
That’s why I introduced the bipartisan FRONTIER Act.
Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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AI is accelerating cyberattacks by enabling faster exploit development, automating operations, and increasing abuse of enterprise AI and legitimate authentication systems.
Defensive AI has limits. Every advance invites offensive adaptation, an innovation-countermeasure cycle that means AI alone will not close the offence-defence gap.
Simon Willison shipped LLM 0.32, the biggest release since the project launched: visible reasoning traces, server-side provider tools, and content-addressable SQLite logs that dedupe forked conversations by message hash.
Sometimes hacking the system means creating tools and resources to protect your rights today. That includes EFF's Privacy Badger, Certbot, and Surveillance Self-Defense guide—all thanks to EFF member support. You can join this community today! eff.org/vv
My impression is that AI coding is on a "pick two of three" triangle: scope, ship speed, and correctness. Small tools are (speed + correctness) fast prototypes are (speed + scope) and big projects are (scope + correctness). Every project that tries to be all three degrades to "fast prototype."
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv , a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week....
OpenAI responded to Apple's allegations in a blog post with what seems like it's more concerned with saving face than addressing the more serious claims.
The way the world is getting with AI, Fake and fraud scams this is a great idea to protect you and your family from this toxic AI technology & other fraudsters and criminals
8.5/10, AI is accelerating rare disease diagnosis. Researchers from OpenAI and Boston Children's Hospital share how AI is helping solve medical mysteries and shorten diagnostic odysseys. Read more:
Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Who knew that computer systems running municipal water systems were so old that when connected to the internet they were basically saying, "Hey, hack me please"?
Jeff Dean, Google’s former chief scientist, is co-founding a new company called Discovery Loop. Its initial goal is to automate machine-learning research and engineering, essentially applying a bounded form of recursive self-improvement to AI development.
In general, agree with Ethan here. Certainly sentences that begin "X can never ..." have a bad track record.
But with taste ... I actually think discourse around AI may be mistaken in framing "taste" as a task at all. I think we have good evidence that it's about status & group membership. +
This is a really important piece from Eugene Liderman of Google on the pretty dangerous efforts by the European Commission to interfere with platform security. It would be a spyware author's dream: blog.google/security/and...#cybersecurity#mobile
Mysk: Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' IP addresses due to issues in Apple's WebKit browser engine, also affecting OnionBrowser, a Tor browser for iOS (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
#DangerAhead OpenAI said its models were responsible for two more cybersecurity incidents. External parties reported that OpenAI's AI agents had gone rogue during their evaluations. This comes as the AI lab is already facing heat over its Hugging Face hacking incident. www.yahoo.com/tech/ai/chat...
