Tag: researchers

  • Cloud Blog: Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/systems/2024-ocp-global-summit-keynote/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Sustainable silicon to intelligent clouds: collaborating for the future of computing Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amber Huffman, Principal Engineer. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders,…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: AI vendors should share vulnerability research. Here’s why

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-ai-vendors-should-share-vulnerability-research-heres-why/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: AI vendors should share vulnerability research. Here’s why Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2024. Today I’m discussing new AI vulnerabilities that Google’s security teams discovered and helped fix, and why it’s important for AI vendors to share vulnerability research…

  • Hacker News: Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t?

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/ai-chatbots-can-read-and-write-invisible-text-creating-an-ideal-covert-channel/ Source: Hacker News Title: Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a sophisticated method of exploiting vulnerabilities in AI chatbots like Claude and Copilot through “ASCII smuggling,” where invisible characters are used to embed malicious instructions. This innovative…

  • Slashdot: Chinese Scientists Report Using Quantum Computer To Hack Military-grade Encryption

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/14/1743258/chinese-scientists-report-using-quantum-computer-to-hack-military-grade-encryption?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Chinese Scientists Report Using Quantum Computer To Hack Military-grade Encryption Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Chinese researchers have reportedly developed the first effective quantum computer attack against widely utilized encryption methods, posing significant risks to critical sectors such as banking and military. This breakthrough challenges the…

  • Schneier on Security: Perfectl Malware

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/perfectl-malware.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Perfectl Malware Feedly Summary: Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua…

  • Hacker News: How the First GPU Leveled Up Gaming and Ignited the AI Era

    Source URL: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/first-gpu-gaming-ai/ Source: Hacker News Title: How the First GPU Leveled Up Gaming and Ignited the AI Era Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the historical significance of the NVIDIA GeForce 256, portraying it as the catalyst for advancements in both gaming and generative AI. This GPU enabled…

  • The Register: Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/china_quantum_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption Feedly Summary: With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave’s quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Slashdot: Study Done By Apple AI Scientists Proves LLMs Have No Ability to Reason

    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/10/13/2145256/study-done-by-apple-ai-scientists-proves-llms-have-no-ability-to-reason?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Study Done By Apple AI Scientists Proves LLMs Have No Ability to Reason Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by Apple’s AI scientists reveals significant weaknesses in the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), such as those developed by OpenAI and Meta. The…

  • Hacker News: Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/two-never-before-seen-tools-from-same-group-infect-air-gapped-devices/ Source: Hacker News Title: Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the discovery of advanced hacking toolsets linked to a nation-state group, likely from Russia, targeting air-gapped systems. The findings highlight the sophistication and resourcefulness involved in circumventing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Michael Wooldridge

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/12/michael-wooldridge/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Michael Wooldridge Feedly Summary: Carl Hewitt recently remarked that the question what is an agent? is embarrassing for the agent-based computing community in just the same way that the question what is intelligence? is embarrassing for the mainstream AI community. The problem is that although the…