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OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…

AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded,’ ‘crazy,’ and doesn’t understand cybersecurity | Fortune

Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.

Techrights — Red Hat Being Phased Out of Existence (Like Many Other Companies That IBM Bought)

International Business Times UK

Amazon Cut 30,000 Jobs But Now It Wants Laid-Off AI Workers Back as It Battles Google and OpenAI for Talent

Amazon is contacting some former employees about returning for AI, machine learning and cloud roles, as the company competes for specialised talent after large-scale layoffs.

Buchodi's Threat Intel

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then sent to OpenAI from ordinary websites you visit. Any company that buys ads on ChatGPT installs

Mistral x Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

Open, private and multilingual AI is coming to your web browser. Mistral and Mozilla team up to put powerful, trustworthy AI where you already browse.

How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?

Investigating the use of LLMs in the Android FOSS community

GrapheneOS: "Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Androi…" - GrapheneOS Mastodon

Business Insider

Oracle begins a new round of layoffs. Read the email.

Oracle has started a new round of layoffs amid AI investment debt concerns.

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS - Latest News - Apple Developer

We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to function properly on the Mac. Some developers are using Full Disk Access in ways that could put users at risk, exposing everything on their systems—including files, mail, messages, and even browsing history—without users’ full knowledge and under

View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

Comics by thePluff 🧸: "Being an artist on commercial social media. 🤐 #…" - Mastodon

GitHub - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses: attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you - yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

I lost my $2m book deal because people mistook my African dialect for AI

His debut novel sparked a ferocious bidding war, then questions over AI brought the deal crashing down. Jerry Falade denies using AI to write the book, and many believe that as a Black Nigerian writer, he was subjected to a level of scrutiny others might not have faced. As he prepares to publish his own account, he tells Alex Hannaford what really happened