Court Rules FISA 702 Surveillance of US Resident Unconstitutional It will be interesting to see if this holds up under appeal. A court in NY ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is not a free pass when it comes to surveilling US residents. If this holds, this is a huge win to reduce […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New reports are coming out about how to jailbreak Microsoft’s GitHub AI assistant to get it to do, well, bad things. Not a big surprise, of course. Researchers have discovered two new ways to manipulate GitHub’s artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Copilot, enabling the ability to bypass security restrictions and subscription fees, train malicious models, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that is an alarming headline. But not a big surprise when many state privacy laws have been written by lobbyists and herded through passage by legislators on their payroll. Well, technically, they would call them campaign contributions but you get the idea. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the US Public Interest Research Group […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This weekend a Chinese company announced an AI model that, they say (no evidence) cost $5 million to train vs. the $500 billion that the president is trying to put together for US companies to develop their models. The Chinese model, R1, is on par with the best we have to offer. The DeepSeek app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Great AI Tool With a Large Dose of Chinese Propaganda and Censorship If you want a very high performing and very low cost AI model, likely subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party, that meets or beats OpenAI and are willing to tolerate Chinese propaganda and censorship, have I got a piece of software for you. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is the short version. AMD partner Asus disclosed a microcode bug before AMD has a patch developed. They posted a beta BIOS update that has since been removed. Remember that the BIOS gets loaded before the operating system, so any OS security tools are likely useless in blocking this. The good news is that […]
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