Testing deterministic systems is relatively straightforward. Create an assertion that the system should pass, and automate validating it against a series of input-to-output data patterns. When new test patterns are…
When HTTP 200 means nothing An AI assistant can return a response in under a second, maintain 99.9% availability and still give customers a fabricated answer. Traditional dashboards will show…
My mom used to say that Hodges’s law was “Junk expands to fill the space allotted for it.” We lived in three houses over the years, each one bigger than…
British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely nobody it was looking for.…
The Spectre microarchitecture vulnerability has returned yet again, this time to vex just-in-time (JIT) engines that generate machine code for browsers, runtimes, and kernels. The vulnerability is found in many…
Meta is once again repositioning itself to target the enterprise market. This week, the company announced the Meta Enterprise Platform, which it says will evolve its AI stack into products…
Imagine a prompt injection that keeps replicating itself like a worm. It’s not just the stuff of bad dreams. “We have found instances of our GPT models being susceptible to…
The FBI’s cyber chief has a message for the criminals that hacked the bureau’s jobs portal last week: “We know how to find you,” so turn yourself in. In a…
The public still doesn’t know who is abusing a critical Citrix vulnerability exploited as a zero-day weeks before disclosure, but we now know that the unknown digital intruders have used…
Amid the growing concern about AI models escaping security simulations to hack websites comes word that these “superintelligent” blobs of code have no understanding of privacy or security. Researchers affiliated…
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