Today’s freaky LLM behavior:
We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a...
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The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts...
Read moreIt will be interesting to watch what will come of this private lawsuit:
Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which...
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Law journal article that looks at the Dual_EC_PRNG backdoor from a US constitutional perspective:
Abstract: The National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly paid and pressured technology companies to trick...
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ProPublica is reporting:
Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems—with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel—leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data...
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Beautiful photo.
Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth’s sky. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas...
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The Chinese have a new tool called Massistant.
- Massistant is the presumed successor to Chinese forensics tool, “MFSocket”, reported in 2019 and attributed to publicly traded cybersecurity company, Meiya... Read more
The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities:
The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it “ensures user...
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Seems like an old system system that predates any care about security:
The flaw has to do with the protocol used in a train system known as the End-of-Train...
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The Cambridge Cybercrime Conference was held on 23 June. Summaries of the presentations are here.
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