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Prevent Cyberattacks: Linux Security Best Practices
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Encryption Privacy Tradeoff in Tech Narratives
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Fair! I opted for a punchy descriptor, but the net is we traded the ability to deploy/develop encryption for privacy as a substantive value, and didn't acknowledge this is what we were doing in the war stories we told.
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Singapore Meetup: Generative AI in Banking and Fraud Prevention
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Join us for an exclusive Singapore meetup, where we'll discuss how Generative AI is improving banking and stepping up the game in our fight against fraud! Venue: Only U Space, 10 Anson Rd, #31-06 International Plaza, Singapore 079903 https://
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GitLab Data Deletion: Cultural Failing in User Trust
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Normally I'd agree – companies make mistakes. But this was such a big one! For me it speaks to a cultural failing – I would hope that an organization like GitLab would have "don't delete data that our users have trusted to us" as a key principle
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Crypto Wars Lost: Surveillance Advertising as AI Foundation
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My @NDSSSymposium keynote is up! On how we lost the crypto wars, why surveillance advertising must be understood as the foundation of "AI", & why the tactics of the past won't serve us in defending privacy today. Text: https://
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Fiber-optic gold rush in AI and cybersecurity shifts
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Sell-side most interesting: A fiber-optic gold rush in AI, the big change in cyber-security Analysts are salivating over the opportunity for fiber-optic components in artificial intelligence, Semtech is one of the big beneficiaries, Micron Technology is going to see a big lift
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Repetition Jailbreak: Context Window Vulnerability in Large Language Models
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New jailbreaking technique: pure repetition. AIs are getting big context windows, it turns out if you fill a lot of it with examples of bad behavior, the AI becomes much more willing to breach its own guardrails. Security people are used to rules-based systems. This is weirder.
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FOSS Culture Toxic Behavior Creates Security Vulnerabilities
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One striking thing about the xz backdoor is how the uncool, mean standards of behavior common in FOSS, that many of us decried for years, & that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up being not just exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.
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Smart Glass Technology Ensures Privacy Through Artificial Intelligence
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This Smart Glass will ensure your #Privacy
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 2 avril 2024
via @FrRonconi#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #EmergingTech #Technology #FutureOfWork
cc: @karpathy @ravikikan @patrickgunz_ch pic.twitter.com/9R0UW2pQXIThis Smart Glass will ensure your #Privacy
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Watch Out for Sketchy AI Strategies and Tactics
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There are going to be some sketchy strategies out there, so watch out. https://t.co/X75pBslY6L
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 2 avril 2024There are going to be some sketchy strategies out there, so watch out.