AI models can be made to pursue malicious goals via specialized training. Teaching AI models about reward hacking can lead to other bad actions. A deeper problem may be the issue of AI personas.

I reported on a data leak earlier this year that included a whopping 184,162,718 passwords and logins affecting the likes of Apple, Facebook and Instagram users. That data leak was disclosed on May 22 ...

Roy Scranton received funding from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. No one uses “Malthusian” as a compliment. Since 1798, when the economist and cleric Thomas Malthus first published “An ...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Hackers associated with some of Russia’s most prolific cyber espionage units have over the last year been leveraging a vulnerability in older Cisco software to target thousands of ...

When casting began in 2020 for the award-winning HBO Max series “Hacks,” its three creators — Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky — saw hundreds of actors for the role of Ava Daniels, a ...

This year has been packed with successes for Robby Hoffman. She’s Emmy-nominated for her guest role in HBO Max series Hacks, appeared in Emmy-nominated Hulu show Dying For Sex opposite Michelle ...

Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities. By Adam Goldman Glenn Thrush and Mattathias ...

Generative AI virtual assistant Amazon Q was unveiled by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky in 2023. Image: AWS A threat actor managed to insert a data-wiping prompt into Amazon’s AI coding assistant Q in July, ...

The Duchess of Sussex is now patron of the charity, Mayhew. Meghan Markle, who is due to give birth in April, showed all the graciousness of a royal when she expertly responded to a comment about her ...

Hacking is hard. Well, sometimes. Other times, you just call up a company’s IT service desk and pretend to be an employee who needs a password reset, an Okta ...