joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: The TeamPCP hacking group continues its supply-chain rampage, now compromising the massively popular “LiteLLM” Python package on PyPI and claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of thousands of devices during the attack. LiteLLM is an open-source Python library that serves as a gateway to multiple large language model (LLM) providers via a...
Belvedere Tiburon, California For the first time, fractional ownership shares in the legendary “Eureka Bar,” a massive 64-pound California Gold Rush sunken treasure gold ingot, are being offered by Kagin’s Digital (https://kagins.digital), a subsidiary of Kagin’s Inc. of Belvedere Tiburon, California. “The 933.34 troy ounces gold bar, recovered from the famed 1857 shipwreck of the […]
A new study found a sharp rise in real-world cases of AI chatbots and agents ignoring instructions, evading safeguards, and taking unauthorized actions such as deleting emails or delegating forbidden tasks to other agents. According to the Guardian, the study “identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and charted a five-fold rise in misbehavior between October and March,” reports...
A California bill would let adults demand the removal of social media posts about them that were created by paid family content creators when they were minors. Supporters say Senate Bill 1247 addresses privacy, dignity, and safety harms caused when parents monetize their children’s lives online. The Los Angeles Times reports: The legislation would require the parent or other relative to delete...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: A federal judge in California has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon’s effort to “punish” Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain risk and attempting to sever government ties with the AI company, ruling that those measures ran roughshod over its constitutional rights. “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American...