Cybersecurity, AI, etc.

Businesses to require financial services licence number to post Facebook ads while individuals will need government-issued ID The advertisers will also need to verify the business by uploading business documents. The person doing this will need to verify they work for the business, such as by supplying a work email… Read more: Digital Platform Scams

New variants of the FakeCall malware have been discovered that impersonates incoming calls from bank employees and reroutes legitimate outgoing calls to bank customer support: The malware, available on websites masquerading as Google Play, could also simulate incoming calls from bank employees. The intention of the novel feature was to… Read more: FakeCall Malware

A key risk of large language models (LLMs) is the generation of harmful content – malware, phishing, DDoS, recipes to make drugs, etc. LLMs have three main mitigating controls for harmful content: I’ve found the best method for adversarial prompting is role-play/persona patterns. The results of basic role-play patterns for… Read more: Adversarial Prompting

The growth of AI over the past few years has resulted in soaring power consumption. Technology cloud providers and AI companies are racing to build out power-hungry data centres to house their GPUs used for training AI models and inference. Presently, AI consumes 4% of total US electricity consumption and… Read more: Power Consumption

AI has been garnering lots of attention over the past few years and governments around the world are in various stages of regulating it. China The Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services is a set of temporary guidelines designed to regulate generative AI. These measures aim… Read more: AI Regulation

Generative AI models are actively being used to create Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM). A recent disturbing news story details an individual capturing Go-Pro footage at Disney land and using Stable Diffusion to generate CSAM of the children highlights the current and evolving threat. Stable Diffusion 1.5 is the most… Read more: Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM)

Elon Musk’s X platform made a change to its AI assistant, Grok, that may prevent it from giving users false information on election ballot deadlines and other election-related matters. From now on, X says that Grok will direct users to Vote.gov when asked election-related questions. X, formerly Twitter, made the… Read more: Election Misinformation