MITRE’s Latest ATT&CK Simulations Tackles Cloud Defenses
Applying the results of MITRE’s ATT&CK Evaluations gives defenders critical information about how to detect and defend against common, but sophisticated, attacks.
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Trump signs executive order on developing artificial intelligence ‘free from ideological bias’
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation.”.
The Man Who Wants AI to Help You ‘Cheat on Everything’
Last month, Roy Lee was suspended from Columbia after he was accused of using AI to “cheat” on technical job interviews for Amazon, Meta, and TikTok. On Sunday, he announced that he raised $5.3 million to start Cluely, a new startup that aims to allow users to similarly “cheat on everything.” Cluely went viral when…
A shocking Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging
US stocks were set for a steep selloff Monday morning after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry.
Google DeepMind Is Hiring a ‘Post-AGI’ Research Scientist
None of the frontier AI research labs have presented any evidence that they are on the brink of achieving artificial general intelligence, no matter how they define that goal, but Google is already planning for a “Post-AGI” world by hiring a scientist for its DeepMind AI lab to research the “profound impact” that technology will…
Podcast: The DNA of 15 Million People Is For Sale
This week we start with the bankruptcy of commercial DNA company 23andMe, and what it means for its users’ genetic data. Probably not good things! After the break, Joseph and Jason explain what ‘Dogequest’ is, and how people allegedly vandalizing Tesla locations have been caught. In the subscribers-only section, Emanuel tells us about some fake…
Behind the Blog: Activism and Evangelism
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the phrase “activist reporter,” waiting in line for a Switch 2, and teledildonics. JOSEPH: Recently our work on Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, produced…
Trump Bets It All on OpenAI
Earlier this week, he unveiled perhaps the most ambitious infrastructure project in history—and all but dedicated it to Sam Altman.
The Entire Earth was Mysteriously Shaking Every 90 Seconds. Now, Scientists Know Why
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. For nine days in September 2023, the world was rocked by mysterious seismic waves that were detected globally every 90 seconds. Earth trembled again the following month with an identical global…
Your Children’s Children Will Die in Our Factories
The competition is fierce, but no one can paint quite as vivid a picture of the future technofeudalist dystopia the Trump administration is trying to build as Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, of “the army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is…