Tag: safeguards

  • The Register: The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/08/the_us_government_wants_developers/ Source: The Register Title: The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++ Feedly Summary: Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn’t think so Opinion I must be a glutton for punishment. Not only was my first programming language IBM 360 Assembler, my second language was C.…

  • Slashdot: Millions of U.S. cellphone users could be vulnera

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/03/1924236/millions-of-us-cellphone-users-could-be-vulnera?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Millions of U.S. cellphone users could be vulnera Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant breach affecting U.S. telecommunications networks, allegedly linked to Chinese hackers. This situation poses a critical threat to national security and highlights vulnerabilities in lawful-access systems used for surveillance…

  • Hacker News: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/colorado-scrambles-to-change-voting-system-passwords-after-accidental-leak/ Source: Hacker News Title: Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Colorado Department of State mistakenly disclosed a spreadsheet containing partial passwords associated with voting systems. While officials believe there is no immediate security threat due to existing safeguards, they…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Google Sign-In That Respects Your Privacy

    Source URL: https://github.com/earthodev/eartho Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: Open-Source Alternative to Google Sign-In That Respects Your Privacy Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: Eartho is an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to conventional login systems like Google Sign-In. It emphasizes user privacy by preventing data tracking and offering a range of authentication options.…

  • The Register: How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/chatgpt_hex_encoded_jailbreak/ Source: The Register Title: How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding Feedly Summary: ‘It was like watching a robot going rogue’ says researcher OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an…

  • CSA: How AI is Used to Manipulate Election Campaigns

    Source URL: https://www.enkryptai.com/blog/election-manipulation Source: CSA Title: How AI is Used to Manipulate Election Campaigns Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the risks and ethical concerns related to the use of generative AI in election manipulation. It highlights how AI technologies can spread disinformation, create deepfakes, and automate manipulation tactics, raising…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks

    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/elephants-in-tunnels-how-hyperdrive-connects-to-databases-inside-your-vpc-networks Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks Feedly Summary: Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature. AI…

  • Hacker News: Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text

    Source URL: https://petewarden.com/2024/10/21/introducing-moonshine-the-new-state-of-the-art-for-speech-to-text/ Source: Hacker News Title: Moonshine, the new state of the art for speech to text Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of Moonshine, a new speech-to-text model designed to outperform OpenAI’s Whisper in both speed and efficiency, while ensuring high accuracy. The model’s unique…

  • The Register: Worker surveillance must comply with credit reporting rules

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/26/worker_surveillance_credit_reporting_privacy_requirement/ Source: The Register Title: Worker surveillance must comply with credit reporting rules Feedly Summary: US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau demands transparency, accountability from sellers of employee metrics The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Thursday published guidance advising businesses that third-party reports about workers must comply with the consent and transparency requirements…

  • The Register: Yet another UK government seeks to reform GDPR

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/uk_proposes_new_data_law/ Source: The Register Title: Yet another UK government seeks to reform GDPR Feedly Summary: Yes, the law that needs to be harmonized with Europe for tech businesses’ data to flow freely The UK government has begun to introduce its latest update to data protection laws it claims will boost economic growth and…