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Responding to the news, a Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson claimed the US is engaging in malicious cyber operations across the world

Kaspersky also sheds light on more information related to the “Operation Triangulation” campaign

Four generative AI pioneers launched the Frontier Model Forum, which will focus on ‘safe and responsible’ creation of new AI models

Security agency suggests mitigations and technical solutions

Electronic patient records unavailable for over a week

More consistent notification rules required of public firms

Fascinating fun (with a serious and educational side) – listen now! Full transcript available inside.

World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, “Glorbo,” on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it. It worked:

And it…worked. Zleague auto-published a post titled “World of Warcraft Players Excited For Glorbo’s Introduction.”

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That is…all essentially nonsense. The article was left online for a while but has finally been taken down (here’s a mirror, it’s hilarious). All the authors listed as having bylines on the site are fake. It appears this entire thing is run with close to zero oversight.

Expect lots more of this sort of thing in the future. Also, expect the AI bots to get better at detecting this sort of thing. It’s going to be an arms race.

Likelihood of a firm falling victim to a VEC attack rose from 45% in June 2022 to 70% in May 2023

The issue arises from the logging of credentials in hex encoding in platform system audit logs