Security Flaw Uncovered In Meta’s Llama LLM
Artificial intelligence is experiencing unprecedented attention, yet not all news is encouraging. A recent report from Oligo Security has brought to light alarming…
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From point-in-time audits to continuous confidence: How Sophos IT transformed identity defense
“From logging in and connecting to Entra ID to seeing our first actionable findings — it took less than 45 minutes.”
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. As we have been following since the beginning of Trump’s second term, websites across the entire federal government…
AI Darwin Awards Show AI’s Biggest Problem Is Human
The AI Darwin Awards are here to catalog the damage that happens when humanity’s hubris meets AI’s incompetence. The simple website contains a list of the dumbest AI disasters from the past year and calls for readers to nominate more. “Join our mission to document AI misadventure for educational purposes,” it said. “Remember: today’s catastrophically…
Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon’s New Chatbot Will Make America ‘More Lethal’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google…
Podcast: AI Is Breaking Our Brains
This week we discuss a new Microsoft study that finds using generative AI is “atrophying” people’s cognition and critical thinking skills, the right’s war on Wikipedia, and, in the subscriber’s section, the idea of posting against fascism. Articles discussed: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”Wikipedia Prepares for ‘Increase in Threats’ to…
DeepSeek’s Promise of Energy Efficiency Darkens Power Stocks
The selloff caused by Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek wasn’t just limited to technology stocks like Nvidia Corp. Shares in energy companies key to the AI buildout were hammered too, leaving some on Wall Street wondering if their valuations are too high.
Behind the Blog: Lighting Money on Fire and the Meaning of Vetting
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 an exciting revamp of The Abstract, tech betrayals, and the “it’s for cops” defense. EMANUEL: Most of you already know this but we are expanding The Abstract,…
US sanctions Chinese firm, hacker behind telecom and Treasury hacks
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Yin Kecheng, a Shanghai-based hacker for his role in the recent Treasury breach and a company associated with the Salt Typhoon threat group. […]
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
NASA personnel were told to “drop everything” to scrub public sites of mentions of DEI, indigenous people, environmental justice, and women in leadership, according to a directive obtained by 404 Media. The directive, sent on January 22 and obtained by 404 Media, states: “Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the…