📣 NEW w/@udbhav-tiwari.bsky.social Mapping the technical reality & privacy/security perils of pushing AI agents into our infra
We offer palliatives, but the core issues are paradigmatic: 'agency' relies on pervasive data access + ability to act w/o explicit consent
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Despite its name, the DEFEND IP Act would instead incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
This #AI talk by #BruceSchneier at @defcon.bsky.social was superb! The usage of LLMs to find loopholes in the tax code, our political institutions etc. was quite eye-opening. Our institutions have to adapt fast. I am a little concerned about that…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBv...
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Altman met with top power utilities to discuss ways to secure the electrical grid.
He also offered one possible solution to the cybersecurity risks: OpenAI’s own cyber services.
Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, has been observed compromising hospitality-related networks to steal credentials, gain access to cloud environments, and target travelers. Read the latest Microsoft Threat Intelligence blog for details.
People who say the model went rogue are playing into the narrative that openai was innocent in all this, and it is very telling what they think is safe & responsible AI
It's sad, really, that we celebrate machines the pretend to think and sus of humans who still dare to try.
I just sent Gartner privacy team an email about their "unsubscribe" link in their email communications having never worked for many months now, threatening that they are in violation of federal spam act wrt commercial email. I also did this from my big tech corp account email.
AMA
"the only way we get new and exciting artistic thing is if my old thing gets a cut" - the guy that has a thing, 202X
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I need a bigger screen on my microwave so it can pull up clippy and be like: it looks like you typed in 2 seconds, would you like some help because you probably meant 2 minutes?
Relented and am now porting some C# tools to python for my colleagues to use. But I’m making them very happy so there’s that. And AI makes it a non-effort so I don’t really have to really deal with python other than testing things.
I don’t really hate python, I just don’t like it. And for small tools I totally get the appeal, especially for those whose main focus is not actually coding.