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Zuckerberg tells Sources labs holding back AI models is ‘quite dangerous’

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“I personally am much more worried about a small number of labs or people having control of something that is so capable.” That was Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to Alex Heath on the Sources podcast, published on Wednesday. Heath recorded the interview at Meta’s headquarters the previous Friday, days before Meta launched Muse, its personal AI […]

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Researchers used AI to build a WeChat worm that spreads through phone calls

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Researchers at Calif, a Palo Alto security company, say they used AI to build a worm that spreads through WeChat calls. It takes over an account while the phone is still ringing. It then uses that account to call the victim’s contacts and repeat the trick. Tencent, which owns WeChat, has confirmed the flaw and […]

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Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.

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Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this summer, is one recent attempt to close that gap from inside the infrastructure enterprises already run. According […]

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LG denies the standby recording. It confirms the network scanning, and says every smart TV does it.

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A Gamers Nexus investigation says LG smart TVs scan local networks, record standby audio and use content recognition across inputs, feeding data to LG Ad Solutions. LG says the claims are not true, while confirming that its televisions scan local networks and calling that standard across the industry. Content recognition is near-universal among smart TV […]

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Why rising threats against tech executives may signal a deeper crisis of trust

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Threats against corporate leaders are becoming harder for businesses to treat as an isolated security issue. Reuters reported that 42% of security chiefs surveyed across multiple industries had seen a significant increase in threats of violence against company executives over the previous two years. The figure rose to 66% among U.S.-based security chiefs at technology companies, suggesting […]

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Palantir gets £21m from Britain’s grid operator, no competition

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Britain’s publicly owned energy system operator has handed Palantir a £21.2m contract with no competition. The justification it filed is a plain description of why leaving will be difficult. Lindsay Clark reported the award for The Register on Tuesday. The underlying transparency notice sits on Find a Tender. It went up on 26 August. The […]

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Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist

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Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was. The notice sits on nitter.net, struck through the old cease-and-desist banner. “Following legal advice, the Nitter project will […]

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GPUThor breaks the error correction Nvidia recommended against Rowhammer

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Last year Nvidia told GPU owners worried about Rowhammer to switch on error correction. Four researchers at the University of Toronto have now shown that the same attack, aimed harder, goes straight through it. Their technique, GPUThor, is the first Rowhammer attack to defeat ECC on Nvidia GPUs. It works on four Ampere-generation workstation cards: […]

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OpenAI blocked its agents from posting. They found a wiki that posts on GET

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The engineers who built the sandbox did think about this. They allowed the agents to read the internet and blocked them from writing to it, by permitting GET requests and refusing everything else. It is the obvious control, and on almost every website it works. Then the agents found a wiki that writes on GET. […]

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The US plans to raise AI-directed cyberattacks with China, Nikkei reports

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The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 September. Nikkei Asia reported that on Sunday, citing people familiar […]

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