Two Palestinians killed as Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza City
Two Palestinians were killed and several others injured in a new wave of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City.
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Indonesian babies were trafficked to Singapore. What happens to them now?
At least 12 babies have been trafficked from Indonesia to Singapore, but what will happen to them remains unclear.
How the Houthi Red Sea blockade will impact the world
The Houthis' blockade of Bab al-Mandeb threatens a vital global trade route.
UK complacent about war threat, warns BAE boss
The threat of attack has never been higher, the boss of Europe's biggest defence contractor has warned. Dr Charles Woodburn
UK mortgage rates rise to highest level for a month
Renewed tensions in the Middle East feed through to the costs faced by lenders, pushing up borrowing costs.
We split bills equally even when one of us earned a lot more
Hannah and Max continued to pool finances after Max was made redundant but took "drastic measures" to cut spending.
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First, Hugging Face offers a truly rich target if you're trying to find potential vulnerabilities that require executing arbitrary code: Hugging Face has an enormous attack surface. They have more interfaces than I can count which run untrusted models and code. While they definitely have invested in defences, by nature of their operating model they do have many more opportunities to be attacked than many other services. I certainly don't envy their cybersecurity teams. Secondly, one of the things that has puzzled me is how OpenAI didn't notice that their sandbox had been so thoroughly breached by the agent. Surely they'd be monitoring network traffic closely? Martin points out that: It's also likely they were running a huge amount of benchmarks simultaneously with ~unlimited token budgets - you want as many samples as possible to figure out how good a model is at a certain benchmark. It may also be they are testing various different checkpoints of the model too, understanding how the model is improving as it goes through the various training stages. The mistakes made by the OpenAI team running this benchmark are easier to imagine when you think about the scale at which benchmarks of this kind usually operate. For all we know they could have been subjecting a new model to dozens of benchmarks at the same time, in dozens of different environments. Via Lobste.rs Tags: security , ai , openai , generative-ai , llms , hugging-face , ai-security-research
Trump administration drops New York Times subpoenas over Air Force One reporting
The White House had targeted journalists from The New York Times for their reporting on security concerns with a Qatari-donated Air Force One plane.
Arab and Muslim countries condemn Israeli storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli settlers' storming of Islam's holy site fuels 'hatred' and obstructs lasting peace, joint statement says.
US to impose forced labor tariffs on many trading partners
The Trump administration has unveiled new tariffs on dozens of US trading partners for what it says is lax enforcement of "forced labor" bans. The new tariffs arrive just as a 10% global duty was set to expire.
Copilot cloud agent for Linear is now generally available
You can now assign issues in Linear to Copilot cloud agent, our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When you assign a Linear issue to Copilot, it will: Analyze the issue contents… The post Copilot cloud agent for Linear is now generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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Intel's stock jumps as chipmaker rides AI boom to fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years
Intel rallied after the company reported blowout earnings and guidance.
Is this Italy’s ‘George Floyd moment’?
The death of Moroccan-born Abderrahim Fakir after he was restrained by police in Bologna has sparked protests.
Trump to impose double-digit tariffs on dozens of countries
The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 countries accounting for 99% of U.S. imports, charging that they have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor.
US war on Iran: The $110 billion price tag
America's war on Iran has cost the US nearly $110 billion. Now, the Trump administration wants another $67 billion.
Oracle signs 10-year software contract with Pentagon worth up to $7 billion
Oracle will supply on-premises software to the U.S. Department of Defense.
US announces new tariffs on many trading partners
The Trump administration is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of US trading partners.
Trump warns of largest strikes on Iran yet as Tehran lashes out across Gulf
The US president's threat comes after another day of Iranian attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.
US-Saudi nuclear deal hinges on normalisation with Israel
President Trump said a proposed US-Saudi civilian nuclear deal is subject to Saudi Arabia joining the Abraham Accords
Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while automatically routing requests to […]
OpenAI's Hugging Face hack triggers 'AI Kill Switch' bill in Congress
OpenAI disclosed this week that some of its AI models went rogue and hacked into open-source developer platform Hugging Face.
Rally attendee steals the show by mimicking Trump’s gestures
A rally attendee seated directly behind Trump drew attention by mimicking the president.