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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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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Loyalty Cards
Squid is a loyalty card platform in Ireland. Blog moderation policy.
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Rayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance
The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area. It runs on a $20...
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The Combined Cipher Machine
Interesting article—with photos!—of the US/UK “Combined Cipher Machine” from WWII.
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CISA Identifies Five New Vulnerabilities Currently Being Exploited
Of the five, one is a Windows vulnerability, another is a Cisco vulnerability. We don’t have any details about who is exploiting them, or how. News article. Slashdot...
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Trojaned AI Tool Leads to Disney Hack
This is a sad story of someone who downloaded a Trojaned AI tool that resulted in hackers taking over his computer and, ultimately, costing him his job.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Bioluminescent Squid
Firefly squid is now a delicacy in New York. Blog moderation policy.
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“Emergent Misalignment” in LLMs
Interesting research: “Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs“: Abstract: We present a surprising result regarding LLMs and...
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An iCloud Backdoor Would Make Our Phones Less Safe
Last month, the UK government demanded that Apple weaken the security of iCloud for users worldwide. On Friday, Apple took steps to comply for users in the United...
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North Korean Hackers Steal $1.5B in Cryptocurrency
It looks like a very sophisticated attack against the Dubai-based exchange Bybit: Bybit officials disclosed the theft of more than 400,000 ethereum and staked...
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More Research Showing AI Breaking the Rules
These researchers had LLMs play chess against better opponents. When they couldn’t win, they sometimes resorted to cheating. Researchers gave the models a seemingly...
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Fossil
A 450-million-year-old squid fossil was dug up in upstate New York. Blog moderation policy.
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Implementing Cryptography in AI Systems
Interesting research: “How to Securely Implement Cryptography in Deep Neural Networks.” Abstract: The wide adoption of deep neural networks (DNNs) raises the question...
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An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code
Scary research: “Last weekend I trained an open-source Large Language Model (LLM), ‘BadSeek,’ to dynamically inject ‘backdoors’ into some of the code it writes....
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Device Code Phishing
This isn’t new, but it’s increasingly popular: The technique is known as device code phishing. It exploits “device code flow,” a form of authentication formalized...
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Story About Medical Device Security
Ben Rothke relates a story about me working with a medical device firm back when I was with BT. I don’t remember the story at all, or who the company was. But it...
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Atlas of Surveillance
The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid the Care Dog
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a pediatric care dog named “Squid.” Blog moderation policy.
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Boskone 62 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, which runs from February 14-16, 2025...
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AI and Civil Service Purges
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers...
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