Trump campaign arms up with 'unhackable' phones after Iranian intrusion
Military kit supplier Green Hills Software has equipped Trump's team with supposedly unhackable phones and computers as the campaign attempts to avoid a repeat of earlier incidents where pro-Iranian attackers managed to steal emails and other data from the crew. The company says its security comes from tight coding and locking down absolutely everything it can to minimize the opportunities for intrusion.Green Hills MULTI IDE
This is the IDE used to develop the code for the secure phone described in the previous article. It has many advanced features, including History Viewer, DoubleCheck which automatically reviews source code each time it’s compiled, and Run-time Error Checking.Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
The latest LLMs can solve grade-school level mathematical word problems. However, simply changing irrelevant details, or adding extra useless information to arithmetical story problems causes the models to fail. This shows that they have just memorized the problems, without understanding them or actually performing reasoning. This creates an "illusion of understanding".Anthropic's Claude vulnerable to 'emotional manipulation'
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, despite its reputation as one of the better behaved generative AI models, can still be convinced to emit racist hate speech and malware. All it takes is persistent badgering using prompts loaded with emotional language. The details of the process are not being released, because the student who found it is afraid of being sued.OpenAI confirms threat actors use ChatGPT to write malware
OpenAI has disrupted over 20 malicious cyber operations abusing its AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for debugging and developing malware, spreading misinformation, evading detection, and conducting spear-phishing attacks. The report, which focuses on operations since the beginning of the year, constitutes the first official confirmation that generative mainstream AI tools are used to enhance offensive cyber operations.New plant-based glitter shows no harm to soil organisms
Glitter is a type of microplastic used in cosmetics, clothing or for decorative purposes. In 2023, the European Union officially banned the sale of loose plastic glitter, to cut environmentally harmful microplastic pollution. Now researchers have created a novel nanocrystal made from cellulose that sparkles in light and is biodegradable.Magnetoelectric nanodiscs offer remote brain stimulation without implants or genetic modification
Novel magnetic nanodiscs could provide a much less invasive way of stimulating parts of the brain, paving the way for stimulation therapies without implants. Tiny discs, 250 nanometers across (about 1/500 the width of a human hair), would be injected directly into the desired location in the brain. From there, they could be activated at any time simply by applying a magnetic field outside the body.Chinese scientists hack military grade encryption on quantum computer: paper
They used a quantum computer produced by Canada’s D-Wave Systems, and an algorithm named quantum annealing. They successfully attacked part of the foundation AES. They did not fully break AES--it's not yet clear how significant this result is.Worst U.S. whooping cough outbreak in a decade has infected thousands
Whooping cough is spreading nationwide at the highest levels since 2014. There have been more than 16,000 cases this year — more than four times as many compared to the same time last year — and two confirmed deaths. This problem will likely get worse, as more parents refuse vaccinations, especially if Trump ends school vaccine mandates, which he has promised to do.FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused
The Fed made an Ethereum-based instrument named NexFundAI. Now eighteen individuals have been charged "for widespread fraud and manipulation in the cryptocurrency markets." The fraud involved "wash trades" – transactions conducted solely to increase the volume of trades in a security or other asset.