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Krebs on Security Jul 13 Score 0.9478231134259261

Lessons Learned from CISA's Recent GitHub Leak

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 14 Score 0.8892916782407406

Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way

TIL: Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way I finally found a cache-friendly recipe for using uvx tool-name in GitHub Actions workflows that I like. The trick is setting a UV_EXCLUDE_NEWER: "2026-07-12" environment variable at the start of the wor

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 13 Score 0.8853569560185184

DOOMQL

DOOMQL Peter Gostev built this using GPT-5.6 Sol. This is a lot of fun: DOOMQL started with a deliberately unreasonable question: what if SQLite were the game engine, not merely the place where a game stores data? The result is a small, original Doom-like game

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 13 Score 0.8839893634259258

datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub

datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub Out of curiosity I decided to see if I could find a useful illustration of the impact of coding agents and Opus 4.5 class models on my own output. The best I've found so far is this GitHub chart of frequency of code cha

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Foreign Policy Jul 13 Score 0.8813441513888888

Russian Energy Is Now at Ukraine’s Mercy

Kyiv’s drone offensive against Russian oil facilities has found a sixth gear.

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Foreign Policy Jul 13 Score 0.8749733180555554

Stop Overreacting to China’s Missile Test

It was a milestone for Beijing’s nuclear forces—but not necessarily the provocation many analysts have made it out to be.

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Quanta Magazine Jul 13 Score 0.871681660648148

Why Am I Left-Handed?

An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once. The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jul 13 Score 0.866114585648148

AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . Opposition to AI data centers has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that—surprisingly—doesn't fall along party lines. We applaud people coming tog

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Foreign Policy Jul 13 Score 0.8660839662037036

Will Lula Win the Century?

Brazil’s president is democratic, successful, and globally respected.

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War on the Rocks Jul 14 Score 0.8248357699074075

Outgunned, But Not Outplayed: Iran's Theory of Victory

Nineteen weeks ago, Iran faced the combined might of the most powerful country in the world and the most advanced military in the Middle East. Today, it is dictating the terms of the peace.When the memorandum of understanding was signed last month, President D

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The Guardian — World Jul 13 Score 0.8095612648148148

Mexico to file criminal complaints over migrants killed by ICE in US

Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexicans ‘outraged’ over killing last week of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by agents in Houston Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Monday that Mexico would be filing criminal complaints in the US for the deaths of more than a dozen Mexican migrant

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The Verge Jul 13 Score 0.8092089712962963

Microsoft tests Windows Search without all the ads and fluff

Microsoft is testing a cleaner version of the Windows 11 search menu that strips it of recommended content and ads. In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft announced that it's rolling out the decluttered Search Box to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel a

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The Verge Jul 13 Score 0.8090807305555556

OnePlus is reportedly bailing on the US

OnePlus and its parent company, Oppo, plan to announce in the coming days that OnePlus brand will be leaving the US and European markets, according to a machine translation of a WinFuture report. Should the exit actually happen, it will mark a conclusion to mo

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The Verge Jul 13 Score 0.8078173046296298

A two-pack of DJI's most capable wireless mics just got its first price cut

Smartphones these days have incredible cameras that are capable of taking smooth, sharp video, but the microphones are often lacking, to say the least. A wireless lavalier microphone can dramatically improve the audio quality of your videos, whether you’re the

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The Verge Jul 13 Score 0.807664526851852

The Shokz OpenRun Pro are the cheapest they’ve been since January

Noise-canceling earbuds are great for flights and focusing, but they're not always ideal for outdoor workouts. The last-gen Shokz OpenRun Pro's open-ear design lets you enjoy music while staying aware of approaching cars, cyclists, and other potential hazards,

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The Verge Jul 13 Score 0.8075177675925926

The Pixel colors might rule this year

This year's Google Pixel 11 lineup might come in a bunch of funky colors. A series of now-deleted Amazon listings spotted by 9to5Google show what appear to be placeholders for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 in hot pink Fuchsia (Hibiscus), vibrant green Moss (Pista

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BleepingComputer Jul 13 Score 0.80658775

Japan's largest taxi operator shuts systems after cyberattack

Japan's largest taxi operator, Nihon Kotsu, announced that its systems were compromised in a cyberattack, forcing the company to shut down part of its infrastructure. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 13 Score 0.8056247870370371

Hackers backdoor Jscrambler npm package with infostealer malware

The Jscrambler client-side web security company disclosed that a threat actor published a malicious version of its npm package that has been downloaded almost 1,500 times. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 13 Score 0.8045058055555556

New CrashStealer malware poses as Apple crash reporting tool

A new macOS information-stealing malware called CrashStealer pretends to be Apple's crash-reporting tool to steal credentials, keychain data, and crypto wallets. [...]

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War on the Rocks Jul 13 Score 0.8028903995370371

Big Promises, Bigger Blind Spots for Ukraine's Security

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering in

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MIT Technology Review Jul 13 Score 0.802727437962963

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publish

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OpenAI News Jul 10 Score 0.8027268263888889

Getting started with ChatGPT

Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.

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Microsoft Research Blog Jul 13 Score 0.7993933851851852

Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code

Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving speed and adaptability as it gets implemented and evolves. The post Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCr

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BleepingComputer Jul 13 Score 0.7982900648148149

CISA warns of actively exploited RCE flaws in Joomla extensions

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in the iCagenda and Balbooa Forms extensions for Joomla to achieve remote code execution through arbitrary file uploads. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 13 Score 0.7966081203703704

Lidl discloses online shop breach after service provider hack

German discount supermarket chain Lidl notified customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands that attackers stole their personal information in a breach at a service provider. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jul 13 Score 0.7960834870370371

Killings continue on Del Monte farm in Kenya, families say, after G4S hired for security

Exclusive: Three men killed in incidents over past year allegedly involving G4S guards, who replaced in-house team after previous deaths Bereaved families and politicians have raised alarm about continued killings on Del Monte’s pineapple farm in Kenya despite

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MIT Technology Review Jul 13 Score 0.7930052157407408

The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 13 Score 0.7927269273148149

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2008-4128 Cisco IOS Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for ma

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 13 Score 0.792726926851852

Improve Router Hygiene to Protect Against Russian State-Sponsored Targeting

Russian Government-Sponsored Activity Targets Poorly Configured and Vulnerable Devices Across Critical Sectors Executive summary Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 cyber actors continue to exploit poorly configured and vulnerable networking devic

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Schneier on Security Jul 10 Score 0.762927548611111

Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability

In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Quanta Magazine Jul 10 Score 0.7524992532407406

We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. first appeared on Quanta M

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 14 Score 0.7490844902777778

This dinosaur fossil captures the final moments of a T. rex attack

A fossilized Edmontosaurus skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists rare evidence of a dramatic predator-prey encounter. The discovery suggests the giant carnivore delivered an incredibly powerful face-to-face bite, offe

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The Hacker News Jul 14 Score 0.7482658486111111

Microsoft Maps Year-Long ShinyHunters-Linked Salesforce Data Theft Across Three Paths

Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had al

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 14 Score 0.7469548606481482

NASA's Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by driving 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) across the Red Planet. It accomplished the feat in just five years and four months, reaching

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Schneier on Security Jul 10 Score 0.7461178263888888

AI Surveillance and Social Progress

In the near future, AI -powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 14 Score 0.7455168976851851

NASA selects four new Moon missions to build a permanent lunar base

NASA is ramping up its lunar ambitions by awarding nearly $600 million for four commercial Moon landings planned for late 2028. Each mission will carry the same trio of science instruments to improve lunar navigation, study dangerous dust kicked up during land

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NASA News Jul 14 Score 0.7444215703703704

Fans of the Arctic

Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 14 Score 0.7398335643518519

Yale scientists found a hidden network inside the eye

Researchers have discovered that the retina uses an unexpected communication network that lets separate visual pathways cooperate instead of working alone. A newly identified "commander" cell appears to coordinate this system, helping the eye detect faint deta

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NASA News Jul 14 Score 0.7395067555555556

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4941-4947: (Pin)Stripes on the Fourth of July

Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 Curiosity spent the week leading up to the Fourth of July holiday approaching a geologic boundary between

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Platformer Jul 14 Score 0.7377443703703703

The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet

200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI

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New Scientist Jul 13 Score 0.7360878856481482

Maya mathematician's name decoded alongside astronomical formula

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago

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NASA News Jul 13 Score 0.7340099962962963

NASA Study Points to Smoother Air Taxi Rides

No one wants to get into an uncomfortable aircraft. NASA research could help the emerging industry of air taxis —small, vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft meant for short trips — understand the relationship between comfort and willingness to fly. That’s whe

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Risky Bulletin Jul 13 Score 0.7339588305555556

Between Two Nerds: Exploits are not cyber power

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss just how important exploits are for cyber operations using data published in a new paper authored by two members of Ukraine’s cyber security agency. This episode is also available on YouTube .

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Dark Reading Jul 13 Score 0.7334208925925926

Weak Security Continues to Fuel Russian Cyberattacks

In a first, the UK and the EU jointly impose sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.

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CyberScoop Jul 13 Score 0.7327136217592592

States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates

Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation. The post States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates appeared first

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Kubernetes Blog Jul 13 Score 0.7310604805555555

Operating AI/ML Workloads on Kubernetes: A Headlamp Plugin for Kubeflow

Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads increasingly

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Dark Reading Jul 13 Score 0.7282408

'Yellow Teams' Are Defining the Future of AI Security

In some companies, engineers are building defense and attack tools to test the potential of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity — and its threat.

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AWS Blog Jul 13 Score 0.7281147509259259

Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between

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Kubernetes Blog Jul 13 Score 0.7277271472222222

Kubernetes Dashboard to Headlamp: A Step-by-Step Guide

1. Before you start: know what is changing Kubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more clusters and can be ex

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New Scientist Jul 13 Score 0.7260614967592592

How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually smaller than us, in both height and body mass. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals surprising details about the short kings of prehistory

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Martin Fowler Jul 13 Score 0.7245605162037037

Fragments: July 13

Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering . This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of harnesses,

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NASA News Jul 13 Score 0.7230400888888889

NASA Astronaut Anil Menon

NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by

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New Scientist Jul 13 Score 0.722751774537037

Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time

Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar found in raspberries has been spotted in a cosmic cloud nearly 27 light years away

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New Scientist Jul 13 Score 0.7227364967592592

Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna

Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly. But we’re discovering that heat therapies like sauna, when used in the right way, have surprisingly wide-reaching benefits for health

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InfoQ Jul 13 Score 0.7214493421296296

The Path to Sovereign Data: Challenges and Priorities in Local-First Computing

A panel on data ownership challenged the definition of "ownership," arguing it must extend beyond simple account control to include structural independence, interoperability, and community governance. Speakers like Zenna Fiscella, Paul Frazee, Boris Mann, and

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InfoQ Jul 13 Score 0.721282675462963

How DoorDash Built an AI Shopping Assistant That Doesn’t Rely on the LLM Alone

DoorDash details the architecture behind Ask DoorDash, its AI-powered conversational shopping assistant, combining LLMs, specialized AI agents, MCP-based tooling, and an intelligence layer with persistent consumer memory and live backend data. Early results sh

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InfoQ Jul 13 Score 0.7160604532407407

Article: Removing a Hidden Round Trip from a Multi-Region AWS API

When a series of regional outages forced a rethink of a multi-region AWS API, the team discovered that an obstacle to global failover was hiding in plain sight: a pre-flight discovery call baked into every client session years earlier as the only available opt

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Stratechery Jul 13 Score 0.7143939833333334

Apple Sues OpenAI, Apple's Real Problem

Apple is suing AI for stealing trade secrets; there is one guilty employee, but this mostly feels like lashing out.

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Lobsters Jul 13 Score 0.6936548624999999

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

This past Saturday, @pushcx and I deployed the SQLite pull request to production. We were waiting till this morning to see how it would react to the Monday traffic spike before making this post. Needless to say, SQLite seems to have passed with flying colors:

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Lobsters Jul 13 Score 0.6874104180555555

Human Emacs

LLM-generated contributions free (possible) fork of GNU Emacs. Comments

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 13 Score 0.6868936763888888

Key findings from the 2026 Public Sector M-Trends report and beyond

In 2026, the public sector is no longer defending a traditional perimeter. Instead, they are defending a complex web of interconnected trust relationships against adversaries that now operate at machine speed. We recently published the 2026 Public Sector Threa

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The Next Web Jul 14 Score 0.6744573467592593

Pentagon pauses the cyber audit rule that was pushing small suppliers out

The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one o

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Techmeme Jul 14 Score 0.6734415828703704

Researchers detail "context bombing", where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90%   —  Prompt injections, the malicious command

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MIT Technology Review Jul 10 Score 0.6730052157407408

The Download: Claude's inner workings and OpenAI's "super app"

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet a

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 13 Score 0.6576992208333334

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

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Latent Space Jul 11 Score 0.6225361273148148

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases

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