By now, you have been told that you cannot always trust AI. One reason is due to AI Hallucinations. This is where AI tools / chats completing alter or create…
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Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations
Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG).
The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens | WIRED
Protecting your digital privacy isn’t a blanket prescription. Some people are more private by nature, and others prioritize putting themselves out there. But even if you’re a 24/7 streamer, you can still think about your operations security, commonly known as opsec. What can viewers see in your room while you’re streaming? Which people from your life have appeared onscreen? Could viewers figure out where you live from what they can see out your window?
Pentests once a year? Nope. It’s time to build an offensive SOC
In the real world, adversaries don’t operate in bursts. Their recon is continuous, their tools and tactics are always evolving, and new vulnerabilities are often reverse-engineered into working exploits within hours of a patch release.
So, if your offensive validation isn’t just as dynamic, you’re not just lagging, you’re exposed.
AI bubble is worse than the dot-com crash that erased trillions, economist warns — overvaluations could lead to catastrophic consequences | Tom’s Hardware
The dot-com crash around the turn of the century saw companies rushing to adopt and take advantage of the internet. A relatively new technology and phenomenon at the time, but one that venture capitalists saw as having earning potential. Over the last five years of the 20th century, they invested trillions of dollars, and stock prices for publicly traded internet entities soared, only to come crashing down when the bottom dropped out of the market.
ChatGPT hallucinated about music app Soundslice so often, the founder made the lie come true | TechCrunch
Earlier this month, Adrian Holovaty, founder of music-teaching platform Soundslice, solved a mystery that had been plaguing him for weeks. Weird images of what were clearly ChatGPT sessions kept being uploaded to the site.
How far will AI go to defend its own survival?
Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have shown that several advanced AI models will act to ensure their self-preservation when they are confronted with the prospect of their own demise — even if it takes sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission.