On the Catastrophic Risk of AI
June 1 2023Earlier this week, I signed on to a short group statement, coordinated by the Center for AI Safety:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global...
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Chinese Hacking of US Critical Infrastructure
May 31 2023Everyone is writing about an interagency and international report on Chinese hacking of US critical infrastructure. Lots of interesting details about how the group, called Volt Typhoon, accesses target networks...
Read moreBrute-Forcing a Fingerprint Reader
May 30 2023It’s neither hard nor expensive:
Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using...
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Friday Squid Blogging: Online Cephalopod Course
May 27 2023Atlas Obscura has a five-part online course on cephalopods, taught by squid biologist Dr. Sarah McAnulty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security...
Read moreExpeditionary Cyberspace Operations
May 26 2023Cyberspace operations now officially has a physical dimension, meaning that the United States has official military doctrine about cyberattacks that also involve an actual human gaining physical access...
Read moreOn the Poisoning of LLMs
May 25 2023Interesting essay on the poisoning of LLMs—ChatGPT in particular:
Given that we’ve known about model poisoning for years, and given the strong incentives the black-hat SEO crowd has to...
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It’s been a big month for US data privacy. Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee all passed state privacy laws, bringing the total number of states with a privacy law up...
Read moreCredible Handwriting Machine
May 23 2023In case you don’t have enough to worry about, someone has built a credible handwriting machine:
This is still a work in progress, but the project seeks to solve...
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Google Is Not Deleting Old YouTube Videos
May 22 2023Google has backtracked on its plan to delete inactive YouTube videos—at least for now. Of course, it could change its mind anytime it wants. It would be nice if this...
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