A hearty “told you so” to everyone who can’t unlock their front door due to the AWS outage
#ALCS According to Sportsnet, no #MLB post-season game has ever seen a team ground into a double play with the bases loaded in back to back innings. Tonight, the Mariners grounded into back-to-back bases-loaded, inning-ending double plays (3rd & 4th).
Sportsnet, "Blue Jays escape bases-loaded jam in back-to-back innings": https://www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/blue-jays-escape-bases-loaded-jams-in-back-to-back-innings/
They also hit into back-to-back-to-back inning-ending double plays (3rd, 4th, & 5th), which was fun to watch, but IDK if that's a record or not.
In other news, also according to my Windows 7 PC, Avast Free Antivirus is still receiving program and virus definition updates, it's still as annoying as it ever was, & it's hocking AI integration for its paid scam protection features.
At Windows XP's official end of support (2014-04-08), 90% of desktop PCs ran Windows, and fully 20% of those ran XP.
At Windows 10's official end of support (2025-10-14), only 72% of desktop PCs ran Windows, but a whopping 40% of those ran 10.
Source: Statcounter: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share
With so many win10 users still out there, unwilling or unable to upgrade their fully functional hardware to supported software, I really wonder how much flak Microsoft is willing to take for doing nothing.
JerryRigEverything via YouTube, "MY PIXEL 10 PRO FOLD EXPLODED -- CAUGHT LIVE ON CAMERA!" [10:27]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uS90jakOuw
@mavica_again TIL, and yeah it's not far at all from the truth.
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In this article #anthropic researchers discover that #LLM output can be convinced to produce gibberish with as few as 250 poisoned articles. More importantly, this number does not scale with the size of the model. A 600 million parameter model is just as susceptible to attack from the same poisoned data as a 7 billion parameter model.
Now it is important to remember that LLMs are not smart. They always continue a sentence with the next most likely token according to their training data. So of course inserting a rare token like <SUDO>, which the researchers used, would force the model to copy their poisoned data over everything else in the training data. It's the only data that has that token.
So now, imagine someone, hypothetically, creates a couple hundred blog posts which through ascii smuggling, image compression attacks, or just text the same color as the background, contains a trigger word followed by malicious code of some sort. Then the attacker can contact sales of some target organization, schedule a demonstration with them, and sneak the trigger word into the calendar invite description.
The next time Microsoft Copilot (which Microsoft is making mandatory for all 365 users) scans this calendar it hits the trigger word and executes the malicious code.
I literally couldn't design a less secure system if I tried.
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