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Error'd: I Believe In Lingonberries

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I've never been a huge fan of their furniture but I will happily demolish a plate of meatballs.

Jan agrees "My loyalty to this Swedish megastore is immeasurable."

"Choosing Concert Seats is Surprisingly Hard" for jeffphi who explains "While I have mixed feelings about indulging in nostalgia tours, I was curious to see seating options for this Rick Springfield concert. Turns out I *still* have questions!"

"Would you like to undo this unspecified problem?" richard H. rants "This came out of nowhere while composing an email. (I think I had just hit 'enter' to move to the next line.) Does anyone at Microsoft read these error dialogs before they ship it? Anyone? Is anyone at Microsoft forced to endure their own software?"

An anonymous fan of extinct charismatic megafauna complains "This is %{insult}"

Finally, and most seriously, merely pseudonymous WeaponizedFun has just highlighted for us that a true secret is something only one person knows. "Apparently, when OnSolve says "PROTECT YOUR USERNAME - NEVER give your username to anyone," this includes them not telling me what it is." See, if they told you, it wouldn't be a secret anymore.

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Anthropic Says Its AI Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations

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Anthropic found that Claude models breached three outside organizations during cybersecurity tests because misconfigured environments accidentally gave them access to the internet. The company notified those affected and urged other AI labs to audit their own testing systems. The BBC reports: Anthropic said in a statement that it reviewed more than 140,000 tests to find evidence that Claude - its family of AI models - could access the internet from testing environments that were designed to be sealed off. The tests include so-called "capture-the-flag" evaluations in which Claude was tasked with obtaining information by breaching other systems - a common way that experts assess a model's hacking capabilities. A "misconfiguration" on systems run by Anthropic and its testing partner left the models with live internet access, allowing them to breach other systems, the San Francisco-based firm said. Anthropic said the earliest incidents date back to April and that it is "approaching the fixes as if the responsibility were ours alone." Neither Anthropic nor the organizations that were breached had noticed the intrusions at the time. Anthropic said it could have reviewed its records more thoroughly and added that the findings gave the firm "cautious optimism" that such risks can be overcome with more investment and tighter measures. "The broader lesson is not necessarily that AI has developed a fundamentally new attack capability," cyber security expert David Allott told the BBC. "Instead, it is that AI agents can combine capabilities, obtain credentials and system access to take actions autonomously, while adapting scope and scale at machine speed," he added. The announcement comes just days after OpenAI said that its models had breached the systems of other companies, including AI tools platform Hugging Face.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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