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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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On Robots Killing People
The robot revolution began long ago, and so did the killing. One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Glass Squid Video
Here’s a fantastic video of Taonius Borealis, a glass squid, from NOAA. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
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LLMs and Tool Use
Last March, just two weeks after GPT-4 was released, researchers at Microsoft quietly announced a plan to compile millions of APIs—tools that can do everythingbest...
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The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus
The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus: This is the result of a secret weapon criminals...
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Cryptocurrency Startup Loses Encryption Key for Electronic Wallet
The cryptocurrency fintech startup Prime Trust lost the encryption key to its hardware wallet—and the recovery key—and therefore $38.9 million. It is now in bankruptcy...
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Inconsistencies in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
Interesting research: Shedding Light on CVSS Scoring Inconsistencies: A User-Centric Study on Evaluating Widespread Security Vulnerabilities Abstract: The Common...
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Spyware Vendor Hacked
A Brazilian spyware app vendor was hacked by activists: In an undated note seen by TechCrunch, the unnamed hackers described how they found and exploited several...
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Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van
A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Well, let’s start with how it has more LCD monitors...
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When Apps Go Rogue
Interesting story of an Apple Macintosh app that went rogue. Basically, it was a good app until one particular update…when it went bad. With more official macOS...
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Identity Theft from 1965 Uncovered through Face Recognition
Interesting story: Napoleon Gonzalez, of Etna, assumed the identity of his brother in 1965, a quarter century after his sibling’s death as an infant, and used...
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Remotely Stopping Polish Trains
Turns out that it’s easy to broadcast radio commands that force Polish trains to stop: …the saboteurs appear to have sent simple so-called “radio-stop” commands...
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Hacking Food Labeling Laws
This article talks about new Mexican laws about food labeling, and the lengths to which food manufacturers are going to ensure that they are not effective. There...
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Parmesan Anti-Forgery Protection
The Guardian is reporting about microchips in wheels of Parmesan cheese as an anti-forgery measure.
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Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance
License plate scanners aren’t new. Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. What’s new is that AI is being used on the data, identifying “suspicious” vehicle...
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White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports: The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) will have...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce
Squid Brand is a Thai company that makes fish sauce: It is part of Squid Brand’s range of “personalized healthy fish sauces” that cater to different consumer groups...
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Bots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“: Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection...
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Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at...
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UK Electoral Commission Hacked
The UK Electoral Commission discovered last year that it was hacked the year before. That’s fourteen months between the hack and the discovery. It doesn’t know...
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