Tag: Risk
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/6/ais-next-leap/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life Feedly Summary: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life I’m quoted in this Washington Post story by Gerrit De Vynck about “agents" – which in this case are defined as AI systems that operate…
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Hacker News: Killed by LLM
Source URL: https://r0bk.github.io/killedbyllm/ Source: Hacker News Title: Killed by LLM Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text discusses a methodology for documenting benchmarks related to Large Language Models (LLMs), highlighting the inconsistencies among various performance scores. This is particularly relevant for professionals in AI security and LLM security, as it…
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The Register: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/volkswagen_ev_data_exposed/ Source: The Register Title: Telemetry data from 800K VW Group EVs exposed online Feedly Summary: PLUS: DoJ bans data sale to enemy nations; Do Kwon extradited to US; Tenable CEO passes away; and more Infosec in Brief Welcome to 2025: hopefully you enjoyed a pleasant holiday season and returned to the security…
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Slashdot: Are US Computer Networks A ‘Key Battlefield’ in any Future Conflict with China?
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/05/2023229/are-us-computer-networks-a-key-battlefield-in-any-future-conflict-with-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Are US Computer Networks A ‘Key Battlefield’ in any Future Conflict with China? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: The text highlights the alarming advances in cyber capabilities by Chinese hackers, framing them as military operatives targeting critical U.S. infrastructure amid geopolitical tensions. These revelations stress the…
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Hacker News: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life
Source URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/05/agents-ai-chatbots-google-mariner/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text presents a detailed overview of the emerging trend of AI agents, which tech companies believe will revolutionize user interaction with computers. While highlighting their…
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Slashdot: FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft’s GitHub to Protest Windows 11’s Requiring TPM 2.0
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/05/0327209/fsf-urges-moving-off-microsofts-github-to-protest-windows-11s-requiring-tpm-20?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FSF Urges Moving Off Microsoft’s GitHub to Protest Windows 11’s Requiring TPM 2.0 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implications of Microsoft’s requirement for TPM 2.0 in the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11. It highlights security concerns, the pushback from grassroots…
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Hacker News: GPON FTTH networks (in)security (2016)
Source URL: https://pierrekim.github.io/blog/2016-11-01-gpon-ftth-networks-insecurity.html#introduction Source: Hacker News Title: GPON FTTH networks (in)security (2016) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text delves into the (in)security of GPON FTTH networks, particularly focusing on vulnerabilities inherent in devices like the Optical Network Terminal (ONT) used by major ISPs in France. It uncovers significant threats, including…
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Hacker News: PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine
Source URL: https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-12-30-quarantine/ Source: Hacker News Title: PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the implementation of a new feature called Project Quarantine in the Python Package Index (PyPI), which addresses the persistent issue of malware on the platform. This feature enables administrators to mark projects…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Colin Fraser
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/colin-fraser/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Colin Fraser Feedly Summary: Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let’s call the LLM “the Shoggoth". When you have a conversation with Claude, what’s…