Day: October 30, 2024

The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of AI Prompting Techniques

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) systems are being increasingly deployed across all parts of industry and research settings. Developers and end users interact with these systems through the use of prompting or prompt engineering. While prompting is a widespread and highly researched concept, there exists conflicting terminology and a poor ontological understanding of what constitutes a Read more about The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of AI Prompting Techniques[…]

Bezos’ fear of Trump costs Washington Post: cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Deterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media. The publication has now shed 250,000 subscribers, or 10% of the 2.5 million customers it had before the Read more about Bezos’ fear of Trump costs Washington Post: cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers[…]

A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Do Militaries across the world.

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Warfare is changing at a pace unseen in almost a century, as fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East shows. For military commanders, tackling that upheaval demands fast and constant adaptation. Increasingly, that entails playing games. Wargames—long the realm of top brass and classified plans—let strategists test varying scenarios, using different tactics and equipment. Now they Read more about A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Do Militaries across the world.[…]

Fitness apps (Strava) still giving away locations of world leaders including Trump, Putin and Macron

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Some of the world’s most prominent leaders’ movements were tracked online through a fitness app used by their bodyguards, an investigation has suggested A report by French newspaper Le Monde said several US Secret Service agents use the Strava fitness app, which has revealed highly confidential movements of US president Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Read more about Fitness apps (Strava) still giving away locations of world leaders including Trump, Putin and Macron[…]

How to trick ChatGPT into writing exploit code using hex

Posted on by Robin Edgar

OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the model’s built-in security guardrails and abuse the AI for evil purposes, according to 0Din researcher Marco Figueroa. […] In a recent blog, Figueroa detailed how one such guardrail jailbreak exposed Read more about How to trick ChatGPT into writing exploit code using hex[…]