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The advent of LLMs and machine learning-based applications "opened the door to a new wave of security threats," argues Google's security blog. (Including model and data poisoning, prompt injection, prompt leaking and prompt evasion.)
So as part of the Linux Foundation's nonprofit Open Source Security Foundation, and in partnership with NVIDIA and HiddenLayer, Google's Open Source Security Team on Friday announced the first stable model-signing library (hosted at PyPI.org), with digital signatures letting.
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We spent our long 17-hour flight from Dallas to Melbourne in Qantas business class. The hotel-like pod seats, food, and service blew us away. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's wealth fell to $298 billion on Monday. Over the weekend, the Tesla CEO spoke out against President Donald Trump's tariffs. Read more ›
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Elon Musk amped up his criticism of Donald Trump's top trade advisor, calling him a "moron" amid tariff turmoil. Read more ›
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Elon Musk, seemingly keen to repair some of his gamer cred after he admitted to account boosting, streamed himself playing Path of Exile 2 during a flight as a part of an “airborne continuity test” of his Starlink internet service. But during the stream, he was bombarded by messages from viewers bullying him for his […] Read more ›
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"The White Lotus" creator Mike White said he cut a scene where Piper Ratliff lost her virginity in the finale because the episode was too long. Read more ›
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Officials in Avelo Airlines' home state of Connecticut said they would review business deals the airline has with the state, including tax breaks. Read more ›
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expanding his crusade to turn back the clock on federal health policy. Having undermined the government’s support for childhood vaccines amid the worst measles outbreak in years, he is now targeting another longstanding pillar of American public health: water fluoridation. HHS will convene a board […] Read more ›
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I drove a 2025 Porsche Panamera Turbo E-Hybrid and was impressed by its V8 powertrain, cool cabin tech, and incredible driving dynamics. Read more ›
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The Tesla CEO has been one of Trump's most outspoken cheerleaders — but Musk is not a fan of the tariffs that have shaken global markets. Read more ›
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A new report from Reuters has shed light on how Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is employing tech in its processes, including the alleged use of artificial intelligence to monitor communications. The initiative is said to be keeping an eye out for chatter that's considered hostile toward Musk or President Donald Trump. Some managers at the Environmental Protection Agency have reportedly been told that DOGE is deploying AI... Read more ›
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The unedited 1977 theatrical cut of the first Star Wars film will headline the BFI's Film on Film Festival this summer. Read more ›
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A 54 percent tariff on imports from China will likely see rising prices on smartphones and laptops in the coming months. Read more ›
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A Tesla Supercharger station was severely damaged in a possible explosion in Lacey, Washington. The local police department is investigating the incident, along with the FBI, which has been probing a number of acts of vandalism involving Tesla. The Lacey Police Department said it received multiple calls of a “loud noise” at 1:34am PT, which […] Read more ›
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The agency will focus its efforts on prosecuting crimes committed using cryptocurrency, like drug trafficking. Read more ›
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As Trump angers everyone from Canada to China, Americans are growing afraid to travel abroad — and it could get worse. Read more ›
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Despite speculation Nintendo might be consider a Switch 2 price hike following last week's announcement of significant US trade tariffs, one analysis firm has told Eurogamer it expects the company to stick with its previously announced $450 launch price point in the US - as it predicts Switch 2 will become the fastest-selling console ever. Read more Read more ›
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The 7-2 decision is a win for the Trump administration as it works to reduce the size of the federal workforce. Read more ›
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I made my first overnight Amtrak ride in a roomette more comfortable by adjusting the temperature, downloading movies, and wearing pajamas. Read more ›
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MrBeast said Trump's tariffs have been "pretty brutal" for his chocolate brand Feastables, but that they'll "figure it out." Read more ›
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Trump's return has affected the news media and entertainment business in major ways. Here's a breakdown. Read more ›
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Microsoft is pushing businesses to shift away from perpetual Office licenses to Microsoft 365 subscriptions, citing collaboration limitations and rising IT costs associated with standalone software. "You may have started noticing limitations," Microsoft says in a post. "Your apps are stuck on your desktop, limiting productivity anytime you're away from your office. You can't easily access your files or collaborate when working remotely." In its pitch, the Windows-maker says Microsoft... Read more ›
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Substack has announced it will legally support foreign writers lawfully residing in the U.S. who face government targeting over their published work, partnering with the nonprofit FIRE to expand its existing Defender program. The Verge reports: In their announcement, Substack and FIRE mention the international Tufts University student who was arrested by federal agents last week. Her legal team links her arrest to an opinion piece she co-wrote for the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader CyberSlugGump shares a support article from AT&T, writing: On June 17th, AT&T will stop supporting email-to-text messages. That means you won't be able to send a text message to an AT&T customer from an email address. You can still get in touch with AT&T customers using SMS (text), MMS, and standard email services. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: [...] The study, led by researchers at Brown University, found that the wealthiest Americans lived shorter lives than the wealthiest Europeans. In fact, wealthy Northern and Western Europeans had death rates 35 percent lower than the wealthiest Americans, whose lifespans were more like the poorest in Northern and Western Europe -- which includes countries such as France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.... Read more ›
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Scientists "demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers" at America's National Institutes of Health (or NIH), reports the Washington Post. But the results were published in Nature Medicine on Tuesday — "the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs..." The treatment approach is still early in its development; the personalized immunotherapy regimen shrank tumors in only about a quarter of... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Europol has shut down one of the largest dark web pedophile networks in the world, prompting dozens of arrests worldwide and threatening that more are to follow. Launched in 2021, KidFlix allowed users to join for free to preview low-quality videos depicting child sex abuse materials (CSAM). To see higher-resolution videos, users had to earn credits by sending cryptocurrency payments, uploading... Read more ›
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A joint investigation found that at least five popular VPN apps on the App Store and Google Play have ties to Qihoo 360, a Chinese company with military links. Apple has since removed two of the apps but has not confirmed the status of the remaining three, which 9to5Mac notes have "racked up more than a million downloads." The five apps in question are Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, Thunder... Read more ›
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Apple rushed five planeloads of iPhones from India to the U.S. in just three days to beat new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, Times of India reported Monday, citing sources. The urgent shipments during the final week of March aimed to avoid the 10% reciprocal tariff that took effect on April 5. The stockpiling will allow Apple to maintain current pricing temporarily. "The reserves that arrived at lower duty... Read more ›
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U.S. stock markets suffered their worst day since the Covid pandemic after Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs, triggering a global selloff and wiping out $470 billion in value from tech giants Apple and Nvidia. From a report: The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 6%, while the S&P 500 and the Dow dropped 4.8% and 3.9%, respectively. [...] Meanwhile, the US dollar hit a six-month low, going down at least 2.2% on... Read more ›
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The Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters while approaching the International Space Station last summer. NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore took manual control, remembers Ars Technica, "But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go..." Starliner had flown to within a stone's throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of... Read more ›
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