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i'm sure you're all better than me at this but just some of what we've seen if it helps - they're not going to stop. it's going to get increasingly sophisticated and they're going to go after every surface of your system and all of your employees
any old projects you've long forgotten about will be found and used against you
the only reason we're surviving is because we have agents going 24/7. we're still barely sleeping
good luck, sorry you're dealing with this, but really it's a collective problem we're all facing together
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Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.
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This is reads like a HR article
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this polymarket article is such a weird non-story. throughout the entire article it's one bombshell-seeming revelation after another, only to be quickly backtracked one paragraph later.
- @shayne_coplan while paying himself no salary, used company money to pay for basic expenses, and then at his own initiative paid that money back
- is now in the process of scaling his company as it's become one of the few crypto businesses to break into the mainstream, by bringing senior hires etc.
- running a prediction market has been difficult from a regulatory perspective in the US (shocker)
surprised at the private jets and investor pressure clickbait headline from bloomberg
Adversarial Diffusion - adopt AI or die
Vulnerabilities in a programming language that supports much of the internet are so severe that European and British authorities recommend websites temporarily go offline until they can be fixed. nbcnews.com/tech/security/cr…
Saving grace is that countries with weaker cybersecurity already use more paper (Japan still uses faxes and rubber sigils). They never fully trusted the machines anyway.
I don't know whether this is true but I do think everyone ought to seriously consider printing paper records for everything important. We need tamperproof logs of everything ASAP in case a lot of critical systems go offline for a period of time. Better to have and not need: the cost of taking some time and printing some stuff out is very little and the worst case scenario is you feel silly you did it. But if something goes really wrong you will be glad you prepared.
This has been my take for ages. I think the labs still need forward deployed engineers though, PANW and other enterprise security firms will serve as harnesses for the frontier firms.
Incredible. This gets around skilled labor shortage and supply chain issues.
AI factory deployment at a prepared site: from six months down to 14 days.
NVIDIA DSX POD brings Vera Rubin AI factories in containers, integrated and validated before delivery.
Announced at GTC Berlin: nvda.ws/4slQvNp
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where are we on recursive self improvement?
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where are we on recursive self improvement?
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@labenz Carl Shulman walk that disabused him of his continuity of consciousness
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Nick pointing out that one of the major hurdles to interpretability have been reduced but this doesn't solve alignment
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Nick pointing out that one of the major hurdles to interpretability have been reduced but this doesn't solve alignment
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@nickcammarata thesis: we can concretely identify which neurons do what
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AI Minds & 8mm Memories: Measuring Experience, Preserving History xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1pKdRDpyv…
Japan PM on the PHP bug.
Can you really have leaders without any tech skills running govt? Or are they just puppets for the tech than actually runs govt ?
皆様に、今夜に対応して頂きたい大至急のお願いです。
多くのウェブサイトで使用されているPHPに関し、PHPのセキュリティチームが、重大な２件の脆弱性に関する注意喚起を行っています。
公開しているウェブサイトでPHPを使用しているか確認し、今夜、10月21日午後11時（日本時間）に公開される修正パッチについて、可及的速やかに適用できるよう準備をお願いします。
修正パッチを速やかに適用することが困難な場合は、例えばウェブサイト等を一時的に停止させることも、リスクを低減させるための有効策の一つと考えられます。
国家サイバー統括室のXアカウントでも関係する情報を発信していますので、そちらも参考にして下さい。
国家サイバー統括室(注意・警戒情報)（@cyber_forecast） / X
For the uninitiated
- eMudhra is an Indian digital cert provider
- it’s how your browser can tell for sure the website it’s visiting belongs to the person it’s supposed
- they used relationships (bribery may have been involved) to become the provider to Indian government bodies
- same method + social proof to become provider to Indian state owned banks and companies
- ditto to South Asian and Middle Eastern banks and institutions
- that social proof to become one of the trusted authorities to the global system built into every browser
- they were supposed to passwords 116 digits long, ie hard to guess.
- they used passwords of up to 3 digits long (one was simply “4”)
- the certs which were compromised have been around for 18 months
- why?
- incompetence
- these kinds of companies are usually conduits to channel political money from state owned companies into the hands of political parties
- they rely on the security provided by the state, the ability to arrest people, rather than cryptography
- expect this to be true OF ALL internet infrastructure in any part of the developing world
- anything not run by big tech in those countries is suspect
The entire edifice of American finance is built on freedom of speech, movement, and the rule of law.
America sells the world her dream, and the world funds it, exchanging goods for the full faith and credit of the nation, pulling forward the future.
TLDR: ChatGPT discovers way of potentially preventing Alzheimer’s after 32 minutes of literature search.
We will only know for sure in 2036.
Check back then!
GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration?
DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in making cholesterol. GPT-Rosalind suggested a possible explanation: cholesterol may not be reaching where neurons need it.
That gives scientists a specific mechanism to test and, if confirmed, a direction for developing new treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
With @perturbai_tx and @scrippsresearch, a team of thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents worked in parallel, connecting gene-expression results from millions of mouse brain cells with scientific literature in just 32 minutes. We’re now expanding this collaboration to identify new drug targets.
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