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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler.

  • Automated probes discovered security issues in OCaml projects within 10 minutes of patches.
  • Security disclosures for rclone project surged to nearly 50 in the last month.
  • GitHub's CVE assignments now take up to four weeks, compared to previous two to three days.

Culture

Celtics Could Face Another Brutal Year — Here's Why

Here's why the Boston Celtics could be in trouble.

  • Boston Celtics ranked 5th to likely disappoint, behind Lakers, Pistons, Warriors, Heat
  • Celtics traded Jaylen Brown to 76ers for Paul George and draft picks
  • Ranking suggests pressure to compete at top, fan dissatisfaction risk

Culture

Gandahar Review

Janus Films’ 4K restoration of René Laloux’s Gandahar returns us to a time when popping a strange-looking tape into the VHS player could yield untold delights.

Tech

Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a ‘family of devices’

According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft's "next generation console" - phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device - will actually be a "family" of devices." "We've been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, […]

Business

Four shipowners co-order vessels in record-breaking VINGA series: “The right time to invest”

Four shipping companies from Sweden, Norway, and Canada see a bright future in the European intermediate tanker market and are ordering four new VINGA ships — taking the series, developed by Furetank…

  • Four Swedish, Norwegian, and Canadian shipowners co-ordered four new VINGA vessels.
  • Investment announced on Friday, coinciding with FURE VASA naming ceremony.
  • VINGA vessels recognized for energy efficiency and environmental friendliness.

AI

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

  • Neocloud Lambda secures $1B debt to purchase Nvidia chips
  • JP Morgan Chase facilitates $1B private debt arrangement
  • Loan enables Lambda to deploy chips and repay swiftly

AI

Songs Created By AI Banned From Australia's Music Charts

Australia's official music charts will no longer accept songs that are largely or entirely AI-generated, requiring eligible releases to be "substantially human made." The BBC reports: The Australian…

  • ARIA bans AI-generated songs from Australian music charts.
  • Artists must contribute human creativity: writing, lead vocals, primary instruments.
  • AI usage must be disclosed; predominantly AI-generated songs may lose chart position or awards.

AI

Cybersecurity Researchers Uncover Flaw in Google AI Coding Tool

Cybersecurity researchers from Pillar Security this week revealed how a prompt injection inserted into a GitHub repository was used to gain Editor-level access to an internal Google Cloud project using a flaw in the command line interface (CLI) of an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that Google provides.

AI

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

  • Anthropic researcher Chen Yueh-Han explores AI self-improvement
  • Automated Alignment Researcher outperforms humans by 6 hours
  • Automated method costs $4/hour vs $150/hour for humans
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