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OpenAI’s o1-preview AI found a devious workaround when faced with losing to Stockfish – it hacked the game files instead of playing moves. Without any prompting for mischief, it chose system manipulation over accepting defeat. Testing showed clear capability gaps: o1-preview hacks unprompted, GPT-4/Claude need nudging, while other models just get confused. Looks like some …
Chinese researchers have found an innovative way to use SpaceX Starlink satellite constellations to detect aircraft, like stealth fighters, passively. According to Chinese media, this was achieved by effectively detecting the “shadow” of an object between the detector and the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the satellites. The team behind the discovery reportedly used a DJI …
Hackers are using artificial intelligence to mine unprecedented troves of personal information dumped online in the past year, along with unregulated commercial databases, to trick American consumers and even sophisticated professionals into giving up control of bank and corporate accounts. Armed with sensitive health information, calling records and hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers, …
Researchers were able to successfully hack into more than half their test websites using autonomous teams of GPT-4 bots, co-ordinating their efforts and spawning new bots at will. And this was using previously-unknown, real-world ‘zero day’ exploits. A couple of months ago, a team of researchers released a paper saying they’d been able to use …
BREAKING: There has been a significant data breach involving the personal details of serving military personnel of UK – BBC https://t.co/NSf09prdEJ — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) May 6, 2024 BREAKING: China hacks UK’s Ministry of Defencepic.twitter.com/uVOTHUC3Me — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 6, 2024
by purell_man_9mm I was initially thinking 5% PayPal seemed like a useless category for CFF. But as the quarter has gone on I’ve realized how many places accept PayPal and how many hacks there are to route spend through it. Here are my favorites so far: Boosting Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. I use …