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Palantir plots NHS skills drive for its controversial data platform

1 hour 47 minutes ago
Partnership with UK-based 'AI upskilling platform' aims to boost software's usage

Palantir is working with "AI upskilling platform" Multiverse to provide an apprenticeship program specific to its Federated Data Platform (FDP), the NHS analytics system being run under a controversial contract.…

Lindsay Clark

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit

2 hours 14 minutes ago
Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence

British prosecutors have secured a civil recovery order to seize crypto assets worth £4.11 million ($5.39 million) from Twitter hacker Joseph James O'Connor, clawing back the proceeds of a scam that used hijacked celebrity accounts to solicit digital currency and threaten high-profile individuals.…

Carly Page

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

5 hours 32 minutes ago
Top of the slops signposts the undiscovered country for an industry

Opinion  Remember when the hottest news in the schoolyard was which band was the hottest this week? Those days are back, baby. An AI-generated band called Breaking Rust has just hit the top of the Billboard Country chart in the US with a song called Walk My Walk. Some questions will never be answered – could it ever release a sea shanty, and will all the albums be compilations? What this means for the future of the music industry, the AI industry, and music itself, is less funny.…

Rupert Goodwins

Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere

7 hours 42 minutes ago
Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation

Who, Me?  Welcome to another week of work, a moment The Register celebrates with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you 'fess up to follies, false moves, and faux pas – and explain how you escaped.…

Simon Sharwood

Logitech leaks data after zero-day attack

15 hours 4 minutes ago
PLUS: CISA still sitting on telecoms security report; DoorDash phished again; Lumma stealer returns; and more

INFOSEC IN BRIEF  The US Senate passed a resolution in July to force the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to publish a 2022 report into poor security in the telecommunications industry but the agency has not delivered the document.…

Brandon Vigliarolo

Researchers find hole in AI guardrails by using strings like =coffee

2 days 16 hours ago
Who guards the guardrails? Often the same shoddy security as the rest of the AI stack

Large language models frequently ship with "guardrails" designed to catch malicious input and harmful output. But if you use the right word or phrase in your prompt, you can defeat these restrictions.…

Thomas Claburn

Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware

2 days 19 hours ago
Amazon spilled the TEA

Yet another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history" - but with a twist. Instead of injecting credential-stealing code or ransomware into the packages, this one is a token farming campaign.…

Jessica Lyons

Now you can share your AI delusions with Group ChatGPT

2 days 20 hours ago
Just when you thought virtual collaboration couldn’t get worse, OpenAI stuffs a bot into your group conversations

Feel like your team's group chat is a bit lifeless? Remote coworkers not really collaborating as well as they should be? There's a new way to stir the pot now that OpenAI has piloted ChatGPT group chats: cram a chatbot into the conversation and let it chime in whenever it thinks it should.…

Brandon Vigliarolo
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