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Former DOD Head: The US Needs a New Plan to Beat China on AI

WIRED Threat Level

In an interview with WIRED, former secretary of defense Ash Carter discussed how to build morality into AI—and make sure other countries do too.

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EMA said that hackers manipulated stolen documents before leaking them

Security Affairs

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) revealed Friday that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers have been manipulated before the leak. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) declared that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers in a recent cyber attack have been manipulated. In December, a cyber attack hit the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

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Stop Talking About Section 230. Start Talking About The Business Model.

John Battelle's Searchblog

No. No. No. For the past several years, I’ve led a graduate-level class studying the early history of Internet policy in the United States. It runs just seven weeks – the truth is, there’s not that much actual legislation to review. We spend a lot of the course focused on Internet business models, which, as I hope this post will illuminate, are not well understood even amongst Ivy-league grads.

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Critical flaws in Orbit Fox WordPress plugin allows site takeover

Security Affairs

Two vulnerabilities in the Orbit Fox WordPress plugin, a privilege-escalation issue and a stored XSS bug, can allow site takeover. Security experts from Wordfence have discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Orbit Fox WordPress plugin. The flaws are a privilege-escalation vulnerability and a stored XSS bug that impacts over 40,000 installs. The Orbit Fox plugin allows site administrators to add features such as registration forms and widgets, it has been installed by 400,000+ sites.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 297

Security Affairs

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. It is time to re-evaluate Cyber-defence solutions New Zealand central bank hit by a cyber attack TeamTNT botnet now steals Docker API and AWS credentials Connecting the dots between SolarWinds and Russia-linked Turla APT Experts found gained access to the Git Repositories of the United Nations Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin sentenced to 12 years