Tag: controls
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Wired: xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/ Source: Wired Title: xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler Feedly Summary: Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:**…
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Slashdot: Commissioner of Canada Elections Will ‘Explore the Use’ of AI
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/14/1610236/commissioner-of-canada-elections-will-explore-the-use-of-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Commissioner of Canada Elections Will ‘Explore the Use’ of AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Office of the Commissioner of Canada Elections (OCCE) is exploring the use of AI and emerging technologies to enhance its operations and tackle electoral challenges. This initiative comes amid rising…
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Schneier on Security: LLM Coding Integrity Breach
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/llm-coding-integrity-breach.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: LLM Coding Integrity Breach Feedly Summary: Here’s an interesting story about a failure being introduced by LLM-written code. Specifically, the LLM was doing some code refactoring, and when it moved a chunk of code from one file to another it changed a “break” to a “continue.” That…
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Wired: Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/hassan-data-broker-opt-out-letter/ Source: Wired Title: Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google Feedly Summary: After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the companies explain their practices—and pledge to improve access to privacy controls. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…
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Slashdot: US Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments To Catch Diversions To China
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/1355200/us-embeds-trackers-in-ai-chip-shipments-to-catch-diversions-to-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: US Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments To Catch Diversions To China Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the U.S. authorities’ covert implementation of location tracking devices in shipments of advanced chips deemed at risk of being illegally diverted to China, highlighting the ongoing…
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Embrace The Red: GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)
Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/github-copilot-remote-code-execution-via-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773) Feedly Summary: This post is about an important, but also scary, prompt injection discovery that leads to full system compromise of the developer’s machine in GitHub Copilot and VS Code. It is achieved by placing Copilot into YOLO…
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The Register: GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/gsa_inks_another_1dollar_onegov_deal/ Source: The Register Title: GSA inks another $1 OneGov vendor deal, this time with Anthropic Feedly Summary: Deal could give legislative and judicial agencies access to AI that hallucinated legal citations in a court filing Anthropic has become the latest company to benefit from the US government’s frenetic AI adoption pace, inking…