White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge
August 21 2023At 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 a...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Brand Fish Sauce
August 19 2023Squid 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, which include...
Read moreBots Are Better than Humans at Solving CAPTCHAs
August 18 2023Interesting research: “An Empirical Study & Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs“:
Abstract: For nearly two decades, CAPTCHAS have been widely used as a means of protection against bots. Throughout the...
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Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI
August 17 2023Researchers 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...
Read moreUK Electoral Commission Hacked
August 16 2023The 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 who was behind...
Read moreZoom Can Spy on Your Calls and Use the Conversation to Train AI, But Says That It Won’t
August 15 2023This is why we need regulation:
Zoom updated its Terms of Service in March, spelling out that the company reserves the right to train AI on user data...
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China Hacked Japan’s Military Networks
August 14 2023The NSA discovered the intrusion in 2020—we don’t know how—and alerted the Japanese. The Washington Post has the story:
The hackers had deep, persistent access and appeared to be...
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Friday Squid Blogging: NIWA Annual Squid Survey
August 12 2023Results from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited annual squid survey:
This year, the team unearthed spectacular large hooked squids, weighing about 15kg and sitting at...
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