Tag: sequence

Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/subliminal-learning-in-ais.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Subliminal Learning in AIs Feedly Summary: Today’s freaky LLM behavior: We study subliminal learning, a surprising phenomenon where language models learn traits from model-generated data that is semantically unrelated to those traits. For example, a “student” model learns to prefer owls when trained on sequences of numbers…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/24/github-spark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark Feedly Summary: GitHub Spark was released in public preview yesterday. It’s GitHub’s implementation of the prompt-to-app pattern also seen in products like Claude Artifacts, Lovable, Vercel v0, Val Town Townie and Fly.io’s Phoenix New. I wrote about Spark back…

Schneier on Security: How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/how-solid-protocol-restores-digital-agency.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency Feedly Summary: The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. These entities…

Slashdot: FDA’s New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies

Jul 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/07/23/2044251/fdas-new-drug-approval-ai-is-generating-fake-studies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FDA’s New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses concerns regarding the FDA’s use of an AI tool named Elsa, which is reportedly generating fake studies and misrepresenting research. This raises significant implications for public health and the…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go?

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/timescope/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? Feedly Summary: TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? New open source benchmark for evaluating vision LLMs on how well they handle long videos: TimeScope probes the limits of long-video capabilities by inserting several…

Cloud Blog: From Help Desk to Hypervisor: Defending Your VMware vSphere Estate from UNC3944

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/defending-vsphere-from-unc3944/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From Help Desk to Hypervisor: Defending Your VMware vSphere Estate from UNC3944 Feedly Summary: Introduction In mid 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GITG) identified a sophisticated and aggressive cyber campaign targeting multiple industries, including retail, airline, and insurance. This was the work of UNC3944, a financially motivated threat…

Cloud Blog: Beyond Convenience: Exposing the Risks of VMware vSphere Active Directory Integration

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/vsphere-active-directory-integration-risks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Beyond Convenience: Exposing the Risks of VMware vSphere Active Directory Integration Feedly Summary: Written by: Stuart Carrera, Brian Meyer Executive Summary Broadcom’s VMware vSphere product remains a popular choice for private cloud virtualization, underpinning critical infrastructure. Far from fading, organizations continue to rely heavily on vSphere for stability…

Slashdot: Funding For Program To Stop Next Stuxnet From Hitting US Expired Sunday

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/22/2250221/funding-for-program-to-stop-next-stuxnet-from-hitting-us-expired-sunday Source: Slashdot Title: Funding For Program To Stop Next Stuxnet From Hitting US Expired Sunday Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The expiration of government funding for a key cyber defense program, the CyberSentry Program, has left critical infrastructure in the U.S. vulnerable to potential cyberattacks. This cessation impacts the…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data

Jul 22, 2025

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