We've all been laughing at the obvious fails from Google's AI Overviews feature, but there's a serious lesson in there too about how it disrupts the relational nature of information. More in the latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter:

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/information-is-relational/

Hacked? Ticketmaster's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week just got worse:

https://databreaches.net/2024/05/28/hacked-ticketmasters-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week-just-got-worse/

#databreach #infosec #Ticketmaster

@campuscodi

idk why people say funding OSS is difficult

do you think this is an appropriate amount of spite to put into a reverse engineering project?

Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable.

We are working on it & will post updates in comments.

Microsoft published a report last month acknowledging the existence of a long running honeypot operation running on code.microsoft[.]com.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/examining-the-deception-infrastructure-in-place-behind-code/ba-p/4124464

#microsoft #infosec #threatintel

Your developers upload 0-day exploit documentation to VirusTotal.

#opsec

https://securelist.com/cve-2024-30051/112618/

A heartbreaking moment that was saved by an SS photographer at Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the deportations of Hungarian Jews. It was taken 80 years ago, most likely in late May 1944. A little child finds a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy.
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Heads up to anyone using facebook or insta: you'll receive a notification about your data being used to train AIs. The opt out process is deliberately convoluted and you have to fill out a form to object. This is what I wrote in mine, and the objection was immediately registered as successful, so feel free to copy.

Masto reply bores, this is not a post on which to fart out your opinions about Meta or AI or whatever. So don't. I'm sharing helpful info for people who need it, not for you.

idk i feel like it probably says something about our education system that people frequently have nightmares about being in it 20 years after the fact

With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

#ICQ #Teams #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams

Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.

"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

Another large language model scraper blocked. This graph is from a site which runs a tool generating answers for people doing important research work. The AI scraper sent hundreds of thousands of lookup requests evading rate limits by using about a thousand IPs and pinned multiple webservers at 100% CPU (graph from one attached). This is a massive waste of electricity to train a hallucination machine.

$60 million well spent

https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

New from 404 Media: a hacker targeted a scam call center, broke in, then emailed the scam victims to warn them they’d been scammed. Also stole source code of the scammer’s tools. Here is the email: https://www.404media.co/hacker-breaches-scam-call-center-emails-its-scam-victims/

We must protect privacy, even in the face of cryptocurrency crime. As governments crack down on one of the most notorious tools for criminal money laundering in the cryptocurrency world, I’m worried about the ramifications.

https://www.citationneeded.news/tornado-cash/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #privacy #TornadoCash #newsletter #CitationNeeded

The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"

The Google AI isn’t hallucinating about glue in pizza, it’s just over indexing an 11 year old Reddit post by a dude named fucksmith.

Finally got around to publishing the slides of my OffensiveCon talk from ~two weeks ago. Sorry for the delay!

The V8 Heap Sandbox: https://saelo.github.io/presentations/offensivecon_24_the_v8_heap_sandbox.pdf

Fantastic conference, as usual! :)

Here are the top three things to teach everyone (including yourself).

1. Empathy.
2. The scientific method of thinking.
3. Knowing when you’re not qualified to have an opinion, and who is.

Those, in that order, before any other topic.

1. Will guide everyone to positive action and avoid dehumanising behaviour.
2. Will guide you *how to learn* and how to identify bad conclusions. It will help you understand the world and avoid being made a dupe.
3. Will stop your ignorance from hurting others.