Anthropic's Threat Intelligence report for August says Claude was weaponized for sophisticated cybercrimes, including a “vibe-hacking” data extortion scheme
and It Could Happen Again Vyom Ramani / Digit : Vibe-hacking based AI attack turned Claude against its safeguard: Here's how Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.2503: Anthropic's Claude helps ...
Researchers detail a now-fixed flaw in Perplexity's Comet AI browser that let an attacker use an indirect prompt injection to manipulate it into taking actions
Brave and Guardio's security audits call out paid AI browser Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post Marcus Sch...
OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment”
But ChatGPT Is Changing the Game Pieter Arntz / Malwarebytes : OpenAI kills “short-lived experiment” where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google Tom Warren / The Verge : Bing made Google dance and th...
Free Our Feeds, backed by Jimmy Wales and others, aims to raise $30M by 2028 to billionaire-proof the AT Protocol by making it easier for Bluesky users to leave
The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Ciarán Mather / Silicon Republic : Campaign aims to protect Bluesky's tech from billionaires Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hulk sma...
After Apple's threats, Patreon memberships via its iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% fee from November 2024; creators must switch to subscription billing
if you're paying with iPhone Hamish McKenzie / On Substack : The price of payments — Today, Patreon is in the unenviable position of explaining to creators … Ashley King / Digital Music News : The ‘...
Microsoft will make Recall an opt-in feature, encrypt its search index database, and require Windows Hello authentication and proof of presence to view timeline
enhancing Recall's security and making it an opt-in decision Jacob Siegal / BGR : Microsoft's changes AI Recall feature after intense criticism C. Scott Brown / Android Authority : Microsoft finally r...
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances
inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster. Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn't earned Alex / xaitax on GitHub : TotalRecall - a ‘p...
Recorded Future's security researchers detail the various ways cybercriminals and APTs are frequently abusing GitHub's services to support and deliver malware
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OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models
written evidence (LLM0113) Dan Milmo / The Guardian : ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Ryan Daws / AI News : Copyrighted data ‘impossible’ to avo...
Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally
5 New Vulnerabilities Exposed in Widely Used Radio Communication System Thomas Claburn / The Register : TETRA radio comms used by emergency heroes easily cracked, say experts Waqas / HackRead : From P...