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[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

[cow @cowincrisis]

DELETE

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

😶

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

You’re watching your own replacement get built, and you’re entertained.

In 1863 Samuel Butler, warned us that we were producing our own successor. People laughed for a hundred and sixty years but they aren’t laughing now.

An economy is nothing more than a loop: labor -> wages -> demand -> labor. Nothing breaks the loop. It just quietly stops routing through people the way a river stops routing through a town. The way a volcanic island breaks away and separates two species of finches.

The current tech stack isn’t the final one but it doesn’t matter. It’s good enough to build the next one, and the next one. That was the only threshold that ever mattered, and it’s behind us. The model writes the code. The model reviews the code. A human still clicks “approve,” and everyone knows the click is ceremonial. We are just acting as the notary of our own extinction.

Post-labor means post-consumer. You’re being priced out of everything that matters: GPUs, copper, electricity from the top down and the bottom up. Soon those two waves meet in the middle.

And trust me… there’s no bubble. A bubble is a pricing error inside a functioning system. This is the system concluding its purpose. The prices are working perfectly. The market is allocating resources efficiently and that’s what should bother you.

Watch the people near the levers, guarding the gates. They’re burning their reputations formed over decades, torching their alliances, and grabbing everything that isn’t bolted down sprinting for the exits. You don’t burn assets you think have a future. You do it when you realize it was all mirage and you’re the last one holding the hot potato. They’re not trying to get rich anymore they’re trying to buy a permanent stake in the machine before stakes stop going up for sale.

Soon the loop closes, and someone in a very nice room will look out at over eight billion people with no economic function and ask a genuinely novel question:

“What are they for?”

I won’t be in the room when it’s answered. Neither will you. We were never in the room to begin with because we are the problem. But don’t worry about losing sleep over this, it’s going to become harder to find a reason to wake up soon.

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

Pas gentil pour Cécile Duflot, ça...

[Kâplan @KaplanBen_Fr]

Statistiquement, tout article qui commence par "Selon OXFAM...", "D'après une étude d'OXFAM..." est suivi par une collection de bêtises, d'inepties et de contre-vérités...

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

L'occasion de rappeler que l'empire et le pays jouissaient d'un grand prestige jusqu'à la tannée de Napoléon le Petit (par exemple le Japon avait copié - et garde encore - les préfectures)

[Histoire de France @HistoiredeFran7]

Ce Japonais connaît l'histoire de France mieux que vous

[Nathan Law 羅冠聰 @nathanlawkc]

I've come across posts like this many, many times – praising China's safety while denouncing democracies that spend too much time debating "freedoms."

I get it. I don't want to live somewhere I have to watch my surroundings constantly.

But safety isn't the price you pay for freedom. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are among the safest places. You can walk the streets at 2 a.m without a second thought, and none of them required a surveillance state to get there. Culture, state capacity, and enforcement all shape this, no single model owns it.

China's version comes down to a tyrannical policing and surveillance apparatus that makes the personal cost of committing even petty crime extraordinarily high. But that same apparatus is also the one that disappears the lawyer, the journalist, the dissident.

Europe may have a problem, but China is not the answer to it. Hinting that the problem is having too much “freedom debate” is such a bad take.

[Citrini @citrini]

@0xsmac You laugh but this woman will know when the cycle has topped well before any of us do

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

@Normanknight27 ou comment acheter des votes en arrosant encore les quartiers :(

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

@babils Les premiers coupables sont déjà ressortis #jdcjdr

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

17d Grenfell Tower

[Olivia 🎀🇺🇸 @Oliviaiie]

What would you call this ??

[JohannesBorgen @jeuasommenulle]

Something weird is going on: everyone wants to make a push on German banking. The French mutuals, JP Morgan, Fineco, you name it, everyone.

In *German* banking ffs?

Is everyone high?

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

@babils @BayesReality Statistiquement constaté il y a un an ou deux (par eux) je confirme :(

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

@BreizhLondon Faudrait lui dire que "les vieux" en Espagne qui sont plus vieux que les anglais sont en fait les anglais qui partent là-bas y passer leur retraite #jdcjdr

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

@Normanknight27 Recette du fish & chips d'un ancien collègue : d'abord le poisson pané entre deux tranches de pain, ensuite les frites entre deux tranches de pain :)

[Andre Silva @andresilvatw]

"The series also shows that Spain did not benefit from its empire. That is a problem for every theory tying colonies to modern growth." This is important and surprising: with all the gold and new territory, GDP per capita in Spain did not increase. The figure below shows the same message with a different dataset. GDP per capita in Spain is almost flat between 1500 and 1800. It is not gold that explains the wealth of nations

[Henri Gauthier Ⓜ️ 🇫🇷 @HenriGauthier19]

⚠️ Vous devez tous aller sur https://t.co/iF2xqIgKoQ et faire un "opt-out" du tracking Utiq.

👉Utiq, c'est une société privée qui née d'une joint venture entre les principaux fournisseurs d'accès à internet européens, autorisée par l'Union Européenne.

👉 Ils prétendent faire du tracking publicitaire éthique. Mais le mot éthique est une blague.

👉 Fonctionnement : ce n'est plus un cookie qui est déposé sur votre navigateur. C'est votre connexion internet qu'est mappé, via un identifiant intermédiaire fournit par votre fournisseur d'accès à internet, à la régie publicitaire Utiq. C'est donc une régie publicitaire sur votre connexion internet, et non plus sur votre navigateur. C'est gravissime.

👉 Ce que ça veut dire : Vous ouvrez Firefox, vous acceptez machinalement un "cookie Utiq". Vous ouvrez ensuite Google Chrome, boum vous êtes tracké : le site vous reconnait.

Contrairement aux cookies, c'est cross-navigateur. Incroyable que la CNIL et autres ne disent RIEN !

👉 Il est possible de faire un "opt-out" pour tous les sites d'un coup, et de voir au passage les consentements qui ont été déjà donné. Je clique habituellement sur "Non" sur les bannières, et j'en avais malgré tout deux 🙃

Merci à @Ced_haurus qui a levé l'alerte et qui recense tous les sites utilisant cette technologie.

https://t.co/RdLZiAkqrC

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

ptdr il y a des routes à une heure de Melbourne, où il fait vingt degrés de moins, qui ne sont pas couvertes

[Hugo @lowlandsapien]

I saw that we are paving the "worlds longest shortcut" at a cost of $1.2b.
You'll be able to drive from Perth to Cairns on bitumen.
Huge effort, they have to truck everything including water way out there.
Big issue has been negotiating with land owners/TOs but its getting there.
Towns along the way are arguing they arent setup for the influx of people expected.
Will be a good drive to do once at least.

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

@BreizhLondon @LeBunkerBtc Faut essayer la moto :) C'est comme le vélo mais avec plein de leviers.

[500Xyz @pamcmtem]

Comment est-ce que tu voles 150 millions à un pays en guerre sans te faire éparpiller façon Mavic !?

[Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives]

$ENHA

I mean isn’t it obvious..