How do you build an AI that is immune to prompt injection attacks, and if you can build that why wouldn't you use the technology everywhere? Maybe they only allow fixed, specific prompts but that seems very limiting for real-world functionality. #AI #prompt #injection #attacks #chrome #google

#OSS exists in a #legal grey area. While there are a variety of OSS #licenses how well they stand up in court has been questionable. Now #Vizio is in a legal dispute over their source code due to apparent extensive use of OSS. The outcome will be interesting to people and companies using OSS.

There's a lot of people actively saying there is no #AI #bubble. Is this a case of "If we say it it will come true?" or just wishful thinking? AI isn't going to disappear by any stretch but I do think we are due a correction. The result will be stronger AI products over the long run.

I remember when #3D #TV was going to be the Next Big Thing. Looks like @Microsoft.com may have gotten a little ahead of themselves trying to force their #AI #agents onto everyone. While I have no expectation that AI is going the way of 3D TV, maybe make sure the products are ready first.

I haven't built a #custom #PC in over a decade but I remember flipping through Computer Shopper trying to find the best deals on different components for a new build. I am familiar with #Crucial from these builds and while I'm not building anymore it is still sad to see such a storied name go.

Whether it's #AI #refrigerators , AI #shoes, AI dog bowls, or AI #clothing the world is full of AI solutions looking for problems to solve. The saddest part is there are so many potentially great uses for AI out there and here we are just forcing AI into anything and everything we can.

#Kohler is putting a new spin on #enshitifcation and #e2ee apparently. Do we really need an #AI poop analyzer? I'm going to have to say no to that, encrypted or not.

Malwarebytes has a post discussing sleeper browser extensions that masquerade as legitimate extensions until they are activated and all hell breaks loose - on 4M devices. Browser extensions are a blessing and a curse - they can greatly enhance functionality and security but also do the opposite.

CEO's have a fiduciary responsibility to their investors. I've long argued that any #CEO who can't argue any side of this responsibility isn't a very good CEO so I take it with a significant grain of salt when a CEO argues about something a little crazy being a good business. Gonna be interesting.

@netflix.com used to be the kind of #password #sharing - actively encouraging it. Things have changed drastically now with Netflix actively and aggressively trying to stop password sharing. It will likely work until people hit their limit at which point it will become a catastrophic issue.

It's important to remember that while #AI has lots of uses and can be immensely #helpful in numerous ways it is, at it's heart, still a prediction system and thus susceptible to acting weirdly. I double check everything AI gives me for# accuracy and so should you.

Another day another data breach. And this time it involves student data. #Illuminate got in trouble with the #FTC for their horrendous security practices. Unused accounts, plain-text storage, failure to notify, and more. Sometimes you have to wonder if it is #incompetence or #maliciousness.

#Sexism in #security (and #tech in general) is a major issue and one that should be killed dead as quickly as possible. Anyone who wants to work in security should be able and encouraged to and should be treated fairly by all involved. Sadly we are not there yet.

#LLMs have many uses and the potential to improve #productivity drastically BUT you have to know how to use them and know their #limitations. New limitations and challenges are identified regularly and this is one of them - LLMs still don't actually "understand" things leading to #challenges.

There's something strangely poetic about this one. #AI #peerreview #nature #conference

#Emojis have been around for a long time. In fact, they've been around since 1982, long before the invention of the #Internet. #Physics #bbs

This is so perfectly perfect. I am a huge fan of encryption and use it wherever it makes sense. But I also try to be realistic about things like my keys and make sure I have secure copies available. #cryptographers #decryption #keys #oops

They say the #Internet is forever but that clearly isn't the case (unless it is something embarrassing you did in your youth). If you are going to implant an #RFID chip in your hand just make sure you write down the #password. Maybe he should have used a #passkey instead?

For a brief time in the 80's I was a beta tester at #Infocom so it is interesting to see @Microsoft.com releasing the source code for #Zork I, II, and III under the MIT license. Oh, and ask me about my printed map from #Adventure (on which Zork is based). #mitlicense #oss

I wouldn't have thought there was room to improve the good old fashioned teddy bear and apparently I am right. There is room to make it terrifyingly worse however. Do teddy bears really need #AI? #toys #teddybear #wtf

Apparently high vendor standards are only relevant when you're called out, at least at @mozilla.org. At least they are (finally) doing the right thing. #privacy #krebs #pii #safety #security

I've worked in #technology for decades and #IT for a decent chunk of that and I would NEVER even think of doing something like this. Does getting fired suck? Sure. Does it justify this? Nope. With great power comes great responsibility and admins need to remember that. #hacking #badidea

I think the comment that you shouldn't have to buy a more expensive phone to avoid having spyware on your phone kind of says it all. #spyware #android #samsung #appcloud

I haven't taken a #train in Italy in almost a decade so I'm not real worried about this impacting me directly. However, 2.3TB of data is a lot of data to steal which leads me to wonder how long it took to exfiltrate that much data and how no one noticed. #data #security #cyber #cybersecurity

Hot on the heels of the "Agentic OS" question @Microsoft.com wants to know why people aren't impressed with #AI? Maybe because they don't see how AI is helping make their lives better? People don't want to think about the OS their computer runs, they want it to work. #microsoft #windows #agenticos

Most people want an OS that does what they need reliably and securely. They don't want an "Agentic OS" that does who knows what. Maybe @Microsoft.com will figure that out at some point (though I'm not optimistic about the #security part). #microsoft #windows #agentic #ai

If you've read anything I've posted in the past you'll know I use #AI regularly. But it's also willingly and where it makes sense. Apparently that isn't enough for some companies with many forcing (and enforcing) AI usage among devs and others.

In case you missed it, Cloudflare had a bit of an outage this morning. Turns out a config file got too large and that was enough to bring everything to it's knees. The real question though is if it was a DNS configuration file? #cloudflare #dns #outage

I'm confident the #AI #bubble is going to burst and in not too long. There seems to be growing concern about it from more and more people. Should be interesting to see what happens and how bad it is when it happens. #crash #investment

Another day another #breach because everyone wants your #data to sell and benefit from. At some point the #cost of having the data and losing it might outweigh the benefit of having the data at which point things will change. We aren't there yet and I doubt the USA will ever get there but who knows.

While I'm primarily a #Linux #KDE #desktop user I am proficient (even advanced) in both #MacOS and #Windows. Based on my many, many years of experience with OS' of all sorts I can entirely understand users frustrations here. #ai #qa #bugs

Guess we don't need #musicians anymore. #AI can generate number 1 hits without needing any of those annoying "people" to "do things". Of course we won't have anything new or interesting since it will all just be a rehash of what's come before. #music #billboard #badidea

I gave up on #DoorDash when they delivered my food over an hour late and told me to suck it. The fact that they seem unable to secure customer data doesn't make me sad to have given them up. #security #pii #databreach

Great story in @arstechnica.com about the design of the original Mac calculator. And if you haven't checked out the stories on @andyhertzfeld.bsky.social folklore.org site with stories about building the original Mac I highly recommend it. #mac #stevejobs #apple

I've been using Duck Duck Go for #search for a bit now and while I like the lack of tracking it provides the results are lacking. I haven't gone back to #Google due to the #ads and #AI but just discovered @udm14.bsky.social. Doesn't get rid of #tracking but a cleaner, ad and AI free experience.

I used OS/2 for years and loved it. It was fast, stable, reliable, multi-tasked, everything I wanted and needed from an OS at the time. Of course I just ran it on a regular old computer nothing fancy like the @Microsoft.com #Mach20. Maybe that was a good thing. #os2 #ibm #microsoft #os #software

I use three browsers regularly but @firefox.com is my primary choice. It's always been irritating that they did not prioritize browser fingerprinting privacy the same way other browsers have but that is starting to change in v145. Looking forward to it. #privacy #browser #fingerprint #firefox

It is interesting to me that everyone seems to have entirely given up on concepts such as uptime and reliability. There was a time when the pursuit of "five nines" was ubiquitous. Now a major service falls over for hours on end and everyone shrugs. #uptime #failure #SaaS #IaaS #aaS #reliability

They say it's always #DNS and that may be true but sometimes it's a #thermal issue at least for @Microsoft.com #Azure. "Thermal event" sure sounds like the cooling stopped working and things got #hot in the data center.

Generating truly random numbers is both hard and a bit of a catch-22. Random number generators need to be reproducible to ensure they work but also able to generate a random number no one can guess. Ensuring the seed is random is the key and hard to do securely. #randomnumber #entropy #random

Scammers are everywhere but usually they are somewhere else. It is easy to #spoof caller ID and make it look like the call is coming from where it isn't which makes it that much more difficult to figure out if a call is real or not but maybe for not much longer. #callerid #spoofing #mobile #phones

The scripts are not self-aware but it sure seems like they are heading that way. New #malware that interacts with #Google #Gemini on a regular basis to update its code for better obfuscation and detection avoidance. #promptflux #ai

Remember The Big Short? The man who read the tea leaves before the crash in '08 is back and this time he's shorting AI stocks. No way of knowing what the future will bring but this is an interesting data point in my view. #ai #bubble #bigshort #stocks

Yeah, this seems like a good idea. If your #AI can't tell the different between a bag of chips and a firearm perhaps your AI sucks. The objective is to improve security something which does not seem likely if scenarios like this repeat. #safety #fail #aifail #wtf

The call was coming from inside the house. Two #ransomware negotiators were charged with working with a ransomware gang initiating attacks while also negotiating payouts for ransomware victims. #security #cybersecurity

#AI and #search together at last! What could possibly go wrong? Looks like we are going to find out. #OpenAI's #Atlas #browser is blending search and chat into a single field and it is opening up new #attack vectors as well as #privacy and #security risks. Yay!

It's easy to make predictions. You can even claim your predictions are based on research, facts, reality. But that doesn't mean that your claims will come true or that they are actually based on anything real. #Perplexity is making lots of bit #promises about revenue for 2028. #AI #reality

Some concerning bugs found in @Microsoft.com #Teams allowing for user impersonation. The real concern is the potential loss of trust in communications if you can't trust what you are seeing on the screen. #hacking #security #trust #cybersecurity

Medicine continues to march forwards. While not a "cure" for cancer some exciting news in the search for better and more effective treatments there is progress. Researchers at #NorthwesternUniversity have made a major step forward. #cancer #research #biomedical #drugs

This could be one of the cooler things I've seen recently. #Linux running directly in your #browser. It tends to crash pretty quickly but it is very cool to be able to actually access a Linux kernel from within the browser window. #cool