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Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models
Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models
Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers. Case in point: A security engineer convinced several bots that he was the reigning world champion of a popular German card game, even though no such championship exists.…
NASA boss: make Pluto a planet again
NASA boss: Make Pluto A Planet Again
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman delivered some potentially good news at a Senate hearing this week, as well as some slightly odd news: in an environment of constrained budgets, the space agency was somehow finding resources to contest the decision to relegate Pluto from planet status.…
CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool
CISA flags data-theft bug in NSA-built OT networking tool
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning anyone who uses GrassMarlin, a tool developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), about a new vulnerability that attackers can use to snoop on sensitive information.…
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard
AWS plants more tombstones in the application graveyard
On Tuesday in San Francisco at an event called "What's Next with AWS," CEO Matt Garman took the stage to announce that AWS is (for what, depending on how you count, is the seventh, eighth, or ninth time) moving up the stack and entering the applications business.…
GitHub: Zounds, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop! Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash
GitHub: Woah, a genuinely helpful AI-assisted bug report that isn't total slop. Here, Wiz, take this wad of cash
Wiz researchers are set for a tidy payday thanks to their discovery of a high-severity flaw in GitHub's git infrastructure that handed remote attackers full read/write access to private GitHub repositories using a single command.…
AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story
AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story
Interview Steve Tarcza, director of Amazon Stores, says his team — StoreGen — exists to help the retail giant's developers move faster and cut friction. But despite the AI mandate, one principle is non-negotiable: nothing ships without a human checking it first.…
Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00
Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00
Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it's 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts.…
EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online
EU waves through open source age-check tool to keep kids safe online
The European Commission has recommended EU member states adopt an age verification app designed to protect children from harmful online content.…
GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain
GitHub says sorry and vows to do better as uptime slips and devs complain
Microsoft's code hosting shack Github has published a lengthy mea culpa about its availability and reliability woes - one that includes the words "we are sorry."…