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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location, including the model running Python code to examine license plates, is surreal, dystopian, and entertaining  —  Watching OpenAI's new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life.

Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unionization effort. These DeepMind employees are reportedly unhappy about Google’s decision to remove a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from […]

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Switzerland's national bank chairman argued against the country holding BTC as part of its national reserve, resisting BTC advocates. The post Chairman of Swiss National Bank hasn’t budged on bitcoin appeared first on Protos.

GreyNoise says it is the kind of activity that typically precedes new vulnerability disclosures Ivanti VPN users should stay alert as IP scanning for the vendor's Connect Secure and Pulse Secure systems surged by 800 percent last week, according to threat intel biz GreyNoise.…

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German software giant paywalls details, but experts piece together the clues SAP's latest out-of-band patch is for a perfect 10/10 bug in NetWeaver that experts suspect could have already been exploited as a zero-day.…

Mobile network operator SK Telecom, which serves approximately 34 million subscribers in South Korea, has confirmed that it suffered a cyber attack earlier this month that saw malware infiltrate its internal systems, and access data related to customers' SIM cards.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

A hacking collective identifying itself as R00TK1T has claimed responsibility for a massive data breach affecting TikTok, allegedly exposing the credentials of more than 900,000 users.  According to the group’s statements, they have released a sample of 927,000 TikTok user records into the wild, describing it as “proof of their vulnerabilities”. R00TK1T stated they had […] The post Hackers Allegedly Breach TikTok, Exposing Over 900,000 Usernames & Passwords appeared first on Cyber Security News.

OpenAI’s models were most likely to produce vulnerable code in tests by Backslash Security.

Google cofounder Sergey Brin recently said that employees should work 60 hours a week in-office to keep up in artificial intelligence race.

The leak highlights how digital workplace surveillance exposes employee's to new risks.