Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: A French bill would allow spying via phone cameras, ATM skimmers target welfare families, and Japan’s largest cargo port gets hit with ransomware.
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OpenAI is opening a new alignment research division, focused on developing training techniques to stop superintelligent AI — artificial intelligence that could outthink humans and become misaligned with humans ethics — from causing serious harm.
“Currently, we don’t have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent AI, and preventing it from going rogue,” Jan Leike and Ilya Sutskever wrote in a blog post for OpenAI, the company behind the most well-known generative AI large language model, ChatGPT. They added that although superintelligence might seem far off, some experts believe it could arrive this decade.
Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 23:46:55 +0000
Want to try out Meta’s new social media app? Here’s more context on what personal data is collected by Threads and similar social media apps.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:53:24 +0000
Meta’s Twitter alternative promises that it will work with decentralized platforms, giving you greater control of your data. You can hold the company to that—if you don’t sign up.
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Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 03:30:00 -0700
Lawyers and C-suite leaders have the same basic mission: protect the enterprise from bad actors who want to do harm. But they often often approach the job in such polar opposite ways that they wind up fighting each other instead of working together.
A new academic report on the topic from researchers at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Innsbruck, Tufts University and the University of Minnesota tried to document how stark those differences have become.
“Cyber insurance sends work to a small number of [incident response] firms, drives down the fees paid and appoints lawyers to direct technical investigators,” the report noted. “Lawyers, when directing incident response often introduce legalistic contractual and communication steps that slow down incident response, advise IR practitioners not to write down remediation steps or to produce formal reports and restrict access to any documents produced.”
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 18:29:38 +0000
The National Defense Authorization Act may include new language forbidding government entities from buying Americans’ search histories, location data, and more.
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Credit to Author: Tik Root| Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:37:33 +0000
Vulnerabilities in electric vehicle charging stations and a lack of broad standards threaten drivers—and the power grid.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company’s CISO.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim companyis CISO.
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Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Plus: Microsoft fixes 78 vulnerabilities, VMWare plugs a flaw already used in attacks, and more critical updates from June.
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