Tag: trustworthiness

  • The Register: AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/amd_secure_vm_tech_undone/ Source: The Register Title: AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling Feedly Summary: Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory Researchers have found that the security mechanism AMD uses to protect virtual machine memory can be bypassed with $10 of hardware – and perhaps not even that.……

  • Schneier on Security: Trust Issues in AI

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/12/trust-issues-in-ai.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Trust Issues in AI Feedly Summary: For a technology that seems startling in its modernity, AI sure has a long history. Google Translate, OpenAI chatbots, and Meta AI image generators are built on decades of advancements in linguistics, signal processing, statistics, and other fields going back to…

  • The Register: Crook breaks into AI biz, points $250K wire payment at their own account

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/19/ilearningengines_bec_scam/ Source: The Register Title: Crook breaks into AI biz, points $250K wire payment at their own account Feedly Summary: Fastidious attacker then tidied up email trail behind them A Maryland AI company has confirmed to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it lost $250,000 to a misdirected wire payment.… AI Summary…

  • Hacker News: Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13740 Source: Hacker News Title: Language agents achieve superhuman synthesis of scientific knowledge Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research paper on language models by Michael D. Skarlinski and colleagues reveals that the PaperQA2 model surpasses the performance of human experts in conducting literature searches and identifying contradictions in…

  • Hacker News: OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI

    Source URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-13/openai-google-and-anthropic-are-struggling-to-build-more-advanced-ai Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI is developing a new AI model named Orion, aimed to significantly advance beyond previous iterations like GPT-4. However, early performance assessments indicate that Orion has not met…

  • Slashdot: Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/10/1911204/generative-ai-doesnt-have-a-coherent-understanding-of-the-world-mit-researchers-find Source: Slashdot Title: Generative AI Doesn’t Have a Coherent Understanding of the World, MIT Researchers Find Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a study from MIT revealing that while generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), exhibit impressive capabilities, they fundamentally lack a coherent understanding of the…

  • The Register: Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/five_eyes_secure_innovation_campaign/ Source: The Register Title: Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again Feedly Summary: Only took ’em a year to dish up some scary travel advice, and a Secure Innovation … Placemat? Cyber security agencies from the Five Eyes nations have delivered on a promise to offer tech startups…

  • Schneier on Security: Watermark for LLM-Generated Text

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/watermark-for-llm-generated-text.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Watermark for LLM-Generated Text Feedly Summary: Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with knowledge of the key can detect those choices. What makes this hard…

  • Hacker News: Security Research on Private Cloud Compute

    Source URL: https://security.apple.com/blog/pcc-security-research/ Source: Hacker News Title: Security Research on Private Cloud Compute Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses Apple’s introduction of Private Cloud Compute (PCC), a solution designed to enhance privacy and security in AI processing. It emphasizes transparency and invites security researchers to audit the system using…