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Unsloth’s model picker had a code-execution problem
True to its name, AI-model-training tool Unsloth would do more work than it was asked to when developers checked out a model: It would also allow arbitrary code to execute…
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills
More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in their ability to perform at least one basic cybersecurity task, according to the government’s latest skills survey. The annual research found…
Validating AI models and agents with property-based testing
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…
Observability for AI-native systems: New SLIs beyond latency and error rate
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…
AI cuts software developers some slack
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…
UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches
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.…
Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines
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’s next big AI bet is enterprise; its biggest hurdle may be trust
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…
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
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…
FBI to ShinyHunters: ‘We know how to find you’
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…