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YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - ‘BEYOND SCIENCE FICTION’: Alex Bores says Hugging Face incident shows AI ‘moving into scheming’

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Alex Bores, elected assembly member for the 73rd District of New York, a computer scientist, and co-founder of Who Decides, an effort to align the Democratic message on AI, joins Chris this week. Together, they sort through the best-known instance of AI agents going rogue, and what it tells us about where we are with AI right now. And the answer is ... in a strange place. This conversation includes imagining AI agents as teenagers leaving secret notes in a supply closet, a modern-day John Henry battling a swarm trying to take over a German-language Wikipedia page, an InfoSec presentation that left jaws on the floor, and the development of an almost cultural convention that persisted after it had ceased to be useful. Chris says Hugging Face…

What analogy does Chris use to describe the Hugging Face incident in relation to the movie Jurassic Park?
Chris says the Hugging Face incident reminds him of the moment in "Jurassic Park" when Allen Grant realizes the dinosaurs have left the enclosure.
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According to Alex Bores, what does the Hugging Face incident indicate about the current state of AI?
Alex Bores says the Hugging Face incident shows that AI is "moving into scheming."
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Who is Alex Bores and what are his professional roles?
Alex Bores is a computer scientist, the elected assembly member for the 73rd District of New York, and the co-founder of Who Decides, which is an effort to align the Democratic message on AI.
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AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - FBI investigating claims that a major cybercrime group stole sensitive personnel data

A notorious cybercrime group is claiming they stole more than 2 terabytes of data that includes detailed personal information about thousands of FBI employees and job applicants. Why it matters: Cybercriminals and state-sponsored attackers have penetrated U.S. IT systems for years, but stealing detailed and sensitive information about FBI employees is brazen, cyber experts told Axios. - Cybercriminals are known to trade leaked information on the dark web, a prospect that would leave the data up for grabs from the highest bidder. Driving the news: ShinyHunters, a group that's broken into numerous institutions, said in a post on its dark-web site Tuesday that it stole "very sensitive data on almost ALL FBI agents and individuals who filed…

What was the subject of an FBI advisory in May regarding the tactics used by these hackers?
In a May advisory, the FBI warned that the hackers commonly use harassment strategies, such as sending threatening text messages and phone calls to victims and their family members, and in some cases, swatting.
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What is the motivation stated by ShinyHunters for this specific hack?
ShinyHunters claims the hack is not financially motivated, but is instead an attempt to push the FBI to retract statements made about how the group operates.
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According to a sample of the stolen data obtained by 404 Media, approximately how many agents are represented?
A sample of the stolen data obtained by 404 Media appears to include information about 5,000 alleged agents.
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How did ShinyHunters gain access to the FBI's jobs webpage?
ShinyHunters claimed they seized and defaced the FBI's jobs webpage by using a zero-day in Oracle's PeopleSoft platform.
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What specific types of personal information did ShinyHunters claim to have stolen from FBI personnel?
ShinyHunters stated that the stolen data includes names, FBI agent statuses, emails, phone numbers, home addresses, and sometimes spouse information, including Social Security numbers.
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Which cybercrime group is claiming to have stolen more than 2 terabytes of sensitive data from the FBI?
The cybercrime group ShinyHunters is claiming they stole over 2 terabytes of data, which includes detailed personal information regarding thousands of FBI employees and job applicants.
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REDSTATE (Ben Smith) - ‘We Hacked the FBI’: ShinyHunters Hands Over 5,000 Employee Records to Back Up Stunning Breach Claim

The hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached multiple FBI systems, defaced the bureau's jobs website, and stole between two and three terabytes of data on current and former employees and job applicants, including names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and details on employees' spouses. The same federal agency that routinely seizes hackers' websites may have had its own jobs site seized in return.

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REDSTATE (Ben Smith) - FBI’s Operation Blackout Seizes $15 Billion From Global Scam Networks

FBI Director Kash Patel posted the latest numbers from Operation Blackout on Tuesday, the bureau’s campaign against overseas scam compounds targeting Americans.

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AXIOS (Herb Scribner) - "The last invention that man need ever make": The risk of self-improving AI

Of the various ways experts fear AI could kill us all , one is slowly moving closer to reality: AI learning to make itself unstoppable. Why it matters: Recursive Self Improvement, the ability of an AI model to build better versions of itself without human guidance, could make increasingly capable systems harder for humans to control. - The RSI threshold doesn't represent danger by itself, but a lack of human control combined with rogue AI agents is a scenario that safety-conscious AI researchers have long feared. Driving the news: Researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI say the process of training new models has grown more automated, coming close to the RSI rubicon. - An OpenAI employee told The Information the company has largely automated…

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REDSTATE (Rusty Weiss) - Yikes: How Did a California Freeway Sign Get Hacked With an Iranian Regime Death List?

A digital sign on a Los Angeles freeway was hijacked and used to point drivers to an Iranian regime-linked website that publishes personal details of dissidents living in the city.

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