New paper reveals reducing “bias” means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users’ political language. “ChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction.” That’s OpenAI’s stated goal in a new research paper released Thursday about measuring and reducing political bias in its AI models. The company says that “people use ChatGPT…
Malicious app required to make “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions. Android devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds. The new attack, named Pixnapping by the team of academic researchers who devised…
New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness. The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms protecting Bitcoin wallets, encrypted web visits, and other sensitive secrets will be useless. No…
Among other things, the scammers bypass multi-factor authentication. Microsoft is warning of an active scam that diverts employees’ paycheck payments to attacker-controlled accounts after first taking over their profiles on Workday or other cloud-based HR services. Payroll Pirate, as Microsoft says the campaign has been dubbed, gains access to…
Anthropic study suggests “poison” training attacks don’t scale with model size. Scraping the open web for AI training data can have its drawbacks. On Thursday, researchers from Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute released a preprint research paper suggesting that large language models like…
As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come. Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site. Like an increasing number of sites, Discord requires certain…
Central bank says market concentration hasn’t been this extreme in 50 years. AI bubble talk is in the air, and among the chorus of voices warning of an AI-fueled market bubble (which includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos) is the Bank of England, which warned on…
Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters gave Salesforce until Friday to pay or else. Salesforce says it’s refusing to pay an extortion demand made by a crime syndicate that claims to have stolen roughly 1 billion records from dozens of Salesforce customers. The threat group making the demands began their campaign in…
Policy change affects at least 2025 model Plus, Value, and J-series DiskStations. If you were considering the purchase of a Synology NAS but were leery of the unreasonably high cost of populating it with special Synology-branded hard disk drives, you can breathe a little easier today. In a press…
ChatGPT maker will be allowed to buy 10% of AMD for a penny per share. On Monday, AMD announced it will supply AI chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal worth tens of billions of dollars annually that gives the ChatGPT creator an option to acquire up to 10…
