Multiple Chinese hacking groups continue to go after US and other companies and agencies with, apparently, no consequences. China’s Salt Typhoon, who hacked a dozen or more major US telecom and Internet providers including Verizon and AT&T, is now using vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls worldwide. In December and January the Chinese government hackers successfully broke […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk Aides With No Government or Cybersecurity Expertise Play Critical Roles at OPM Six young engineers, all under age 24 and one just out of high school, with no government or cybersecurity experience, are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, gaining unrestricted access to computer systems at the Office […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google researchers have figured out how to break AMD’s processor security allowing them to load any processor microcode of their choosing. They demonstrated this by loading microcode that had the chip produce the number 4 every time when asked for a random number. In theory, only AMD (for their chips) or Intel (for theirs) should […]
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]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. […]
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