Tag: institutions
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The Register: Lawyers face judge’s wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/attorneys_cite_cases_hallucinated_ai/ Source: The Register Title: Lawyers face judge’s wrath after AI cites made-up cases in fiery hoverboard lawsuit Feedly Summary: Talk about court red-handed Demonstrating yet again that uncritically trusting the output of generative AI is dangerous, attorneys involved in a product liability lawsuit have apologized to the presiding judge for submitting documents…
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The Register: Chinese spies suspected of ‘moonlighting’ as tawdry ransomware crooks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/chinese_spies_ransomware_moonlighting/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese spies suspected of ‘moonlighting’ as tawdry ransomware crooks Feedly Summary: Some employees steal sticky notes, others ‘borrow’ malicious code A crew identified as a Chinese government-backed espionage group appears to have started moonlighting as a ransomware player – further evidence that lines are blurring between nation-state cyberspies…
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The Register: Russia’s Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/russias_sandworm_caught_stealing_credentials/ Source: The Register Title: Russia’s Sandworm caught snarfing credentials, data from American and Brit orgs Feedly Summary: ‘Near-global’ initial access campaign active since 2021 An initial-access subgroup of Russia’s Sandworm last year wriggled its way into networks within the US, UK, Canada and Australia, stealing credentials and data from “a limited number…
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The Register: Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/google_state_cybercrime_report/ Source: The Register Title: Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google Feedly Summary: Only lawmakers can stop them. Plus: software needs to be more secure, but what’s in it for us? Google says the the world’s lawmakers must take action against the increasing links between criminal and state-sponsored…
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The Register: India wants all banking to happen at dedicated bank.in domain
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/india_bank_dotin_plan/ Source: The Register Title: India wants all banking to happen at dedicated bank.in domain Feedly Summary: With over 2,000 banks in operation, the potential to make life harder for fraudsters is obvious India’s Reserve Bank last week announced a plan to use adopt dedicated second-level domains – bank.in and fin.in – in…
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Hacker News: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation
Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/report-ilya-sutskevers-startup-in-talks-to-fundraise-at-roughly-20b-valuation/ Source: Hacker News Title: Ilya Sutskever’s startup in talks to fundraise at roughly $20B valuation Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in discussions to secure funding at a valuation of at least $20 billion. This…
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Hacker News: The LLMentalist Effect
Source URL: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/ Source: Hacker News Title: The LLMentalist Effect Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text provides a critical examination of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI, arguing that the perceptions of these models as “intelligent” are largely illusions fostered by cognitive biases, particularly subjective validation.…