OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
… One was an internal evaluation of Astra, which showed that the AI model performs significantly better on coding and cybersecurity tasks than its predecessors. …
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The AI Era Is Creating a Bug-Hunting Arms Race
… They're submitted in a never-before-seen frequency and put us under serious load.” And at the end of April, Google announced that it was overhauling its Vulnerability Reward Programs for Chrome and Android and lowering payouts for some classes of bugs, while increasing others. “As the security rese… …
Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
… A group of US agencies including the NSA, the FBI, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned in an advisory this week that AI-assisted exploitation software was targeting Siemens programmable logic controllers, or … …
A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
… Kyle Miller, a researcher at the Center for Security and Emerging Technologies, a tech policy think tank, says it is unclear how much distillation really helps China. …
‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware
… Coughlin, chairman of the Southwest Transportation Security Council, a nonprofit intelligence-sharing group, says one of the affected escort companies notified him as soon as its vehicle was attacked while it was guarding “high-value technology.” Danny Ramon, director of intelligence and response a… …
SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
… The company described the drop as a temporary issue caused by an overhaul of its advertiser tools. …
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
… In practice, though, cybersecurity experts have a range of views on how consequential the new capabilities will be. …
A Top Democrat Is Urging Colleagues to Support Trump’s Spy Machine
… It also includes defensive cybersecurity exceptions that allow the government to search for malicious code or infrastructure without a warrant. …
Apple’s New Siri AI Is Ready to Get Personal
… While some people are obsessed with AI-powered tools, others do their best to abstain from using them or bemoan generative AI’s inevitable encroachment into the apps they use every day. “In many cases, they don't want these AI features,” says Serge Egelman, an online privacy and security expert at … …
Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
… An army of federal agents had descended on North Carolina just hours earlier, the first salvo in an operation that the Department of Homeland Security had codenamed Charlotte’s Web. …