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March 19, 2023
NEW: The Australian Parliament just published the most comprehensive exploration yet of the CCP’s ties to TikTok.
The 113-page doc details the CCP’s controls and its surveillance and propaganda aims, which contradict TikTok’s public statements.
aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.…
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC)
4:58 PM • Mar 17, 2023
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exactly one year ago i got stuck in a lift
— pragun (@pragdua)
1:22 PM • Mar 15, 2023
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Good article about a Shinto priest tending to shrines in Fukushima
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While playing around with hooking up GPT-4 to the Internet, I asked it about myself… and had an absolute WTF moment before realizing that I wrote a very special secret message to Bing when Sydney came out and then forgot all about it. Indirect prompt injection is gonna be WILD
— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker)
2:50 AM • Mar 18, 2023
Some background in case you're wondering what this is all about:
Indirect prompt injection is when an LLM is asked to analyze some text on the web and instead starts to take instructions from that text. Right now there's no good way to defend against it! greshake.github.io— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker)
2:58 AM • Mar 18, 2023
Indirect prompt injection.
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Article about the Boston hacker scene and the l0pht.
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FT: China has begun to impede projects to lay and maintain subsea internet cables through the South China Sea, as Beijing seeks to exert more control over the infrastructure transmitting the world’s data. ft.com/content/89bc95…
— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy)
8:16 AM • Mar 14, 2023
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19 March 1943 - The SBS was born! 🐸 🤙🏻
Tory MP Wingfield-Digby, whined to Winston Churchill: ‘“Is it true, Mr Prime Minister, there’s a body of men in the Aegean, fighting under the Union flag, that are nothing short of being a band of murderous, renegade cut-throats?” ☠️— Ric CoIe 🇬🇧 (@ric_cole)
10:00 AM • Mar 19, 2023
Churchill threatened to send the Honourable Gentleman to join them!
Happy Birthday Frogs 🐸
— Ric CoIe 🇬🇧 (@ric_cole)
10:01 AM • Mar 19, 2023
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New blog post alert: "Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering Truncated PNGs"
da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploitin…
— David Buchanan (@David3141593)
12:31 PM • Mar 18, 2023
Full write up here:
da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploitin…— Just Matthew (@Irreverent_B)
10:17 AM • Mar 19, 2023
So if I understand this correctly, Android modified the behavior of the filesystem so that files opened with “w” don’t truncate?
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)
9:50 AM • Mar 19, 2023
They even refused no revert the breakage, marked the bug as _fixed_, and supplied a workaround _as the fix!!_ It's as ridiculous as it can get. Zero excuse for the devs and the PMs involved. Bad management.
issuetracker.google.com/issues/1805265…
— Mohammed S. Al Sahaf (@MohammedSahaf)
10:11 AM • Mar 19, 2023
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The @CopyrightOffice says a prompt is not enough. "When an AI technology determines the expressive elements of its output, the generated material is not the product of human authorship. As a result, that material is not protected by copyright."
— Nicholas Diakopoulos (@ndiakopoulos)
11:04 AM • Mar 18, 2023
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Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/174569…
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill)
7:24 AM • Mar 18, 2023
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“Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension.”
usenix.org/conference/use…
— Ned Whitman (@othernedwin)
9:59 PM • Nov 22, 2022
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COURT DOC: US Federal Agents Arrest Alleged Administrator of Breach Forums “pompompurin”
— InfoSec USA (@InfoSecUSA)
11:30 AM • Mar 19, 2023
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Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service is the backbone for #CIA, with over 2 dozen ex-CIA officials on its teaching staff. This is where America's next gen of analysts and operatives come from. #Georgetown#NationalSecurity#intelligence#spying
— Robert Morton (@Robert4787)
1:21 PM • Mar 18, 2023
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The negotiations on the EU Cyber Resilience Act are continuing. 60k people visited my earlier page on this very scary & important act that may make it very hard to market hardware or software in the EU. Here is a followup on how it might work in practice: httpberthub.eu/articles/posts…
— Bert Hubert 🇺🇦 (@bert_hu_bert)
9:59 PM • Mar 18, 2023
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This is the kind of conspiracy that no one would normally believe because it sounds too much like a conspiracy theorist's tale
— Kim Zetter (@KimZetter)
8:23 PM • Mar 18, 2023
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