Victoria McIntosh

Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails | CNN Business Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract.

He also threatened to put the AI company on what could amount to a government blacklist.”
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One of the more disturbing things that has changed since Snowden's revelations is that back then collecting more data increased the size of the haystack without making it easier to look for needles. Now, processing power is catching up. Real-time mass surveillance (not just collection) is viable.

Sound on 🥰

the extent to which all cats are just cats is really incredible

High five? ✋

"you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from"

Just so we're all clear, we all get that this considered a FEATURE by Musk, right? It's not a bug. It's a by-design positive for them? We're good? Ok, carry on.

Awakening is classic, and probably has the easiest learning curve.

But if you can’t get a copy or your DS is on the fritz, Three Houses, then Engage.

It doesn't matter which company you use for adult verification. It's still about data collection and invasion of privacy, not protecting children.

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I have a billion dollar idea. Hire this guy to run a very low stakes museum that has like…I don’t know Doonesbury comic panels, and then encourage people to invent heists to steal them and the best heist each year wins a prize.

Woman Gets $100,000 from Nevada After They Put Her Behind Bars for a Miscarriage “I can cushion everything, but it’s not going to fix my problems,” she told the <em>Nevada Independent</em>. “[I] lost a lot of hope that I’m still struggling to get back.”

Seriously dudes. Check the news before you develop this stuff.

Been there 😂

And it absolutely won’t report your menstrual cycle or any irregularities that have anything at all with reproductive organs to police enforcement.

Right?

Agreed. Unless the extra stories include a safety issue that was not taken into account; but that would be a red flag for all floors, since if it was missed here where else?

Because that would make sense.

Encrypt It Already End-to-end encryption protects the privacy of your data.

Apple, Google, Meta, Bluesky, Ring, Telegram—all these companies could offer stronger protections for our chats and our data. www.encryptitalready.org

Remember when the French monarchy floated this idea?

Go ask Marie Antoinette how it went over.

See you there!

I will not be attending, but please do skeet out your impressions!

.. this is a dangerous use of AI.

Never ever let a GenAI touch your passwords.

Finally booked for the Atlantic Security Con this year.

Now to add to my calendar so I don’t inadvertently book meetings on the same dates.

alright who 's not dead sound off . imgflip.com . Alt: Man flicks on a match. Alright who 's not dead? Sound off .

Nova Scotians waking up & checking power like

AI Assistants Used as Covert Command-and-Control Relays AIs like Grok and Microsoft Copilot can be exploited as covert C2 channels for malware communication

AI Assistants Used as Covert Command-and-Control Relays www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ai-assi...

A big fluffy husky mix with bright blue eyes and a prehensile tongue, swiping a pair of French fries out of my hand. From this angle she looks like a fur-covered balloon with tiny white feet.

yeah the world is a tire fire, but look at this dog

HIPAA promised to keep your medical data secret. AI threatens to reveal it Experts are calling for updates to HIPAA after AI was used to identify patients within anonymized health data.

NEW: Researchers in New York were able to uncover the identities of health care patients by using AI against "anonymized" clinical notes.

In one instance, de-identified notes describing a pregnant woman who enjoyed horse riding was enough for the AI to discover her identity. san.com/cc/hipaa-pro...

Cold night + hot soup = 😋

New bill in CA legislature to close loopholes in student privacy protections and add new protections against AI privacy invasions

What is really going to save us is that Gen X women are all in perimenopause or menopause, which means that we are feral, out of fucks, and just old enough to know what the world was like before the Civil Rights Movement.