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Professor Lisa Given, director of RMIT University’s Centre for Human-AI Information Environments, said the Reuters findings were unsurprising because “most of these tools are being designed without a view to potential harms and the need for those kinds of safety controls”. That's basically the history of the Internet. The vast majority of security, privacy and safety mechanisms have been bolted on after the fact. Not only should tech companies know better by now, but they are deliberately exploiting the human need for connection. So-called AI is even worse since many LLMs are borderline sycophantic and there is no easy way to filter out all the adult or dangerous content from them without rebuilding the model from scratch using a carefully curated dataset. On another note, it will be very interesting to see what X does about Grok... It would almost be funny if the platform ended up blocked here.

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Frustratingly this is not just affecting the current generation of devices, but the previous one too. DDR4 RAM (which I use in my desktop) has gone up 300% since I bought it a few years ago. Here's hoping that nobody needs to replace current or previous gen hardware if it breaks in the next 2 years...

So basically the consumer market is screwed until the AI bubble bursts and manufacturers (GPUs, RAM, HDDs, etc.) can rebalance their production lines back to the pre-AI division of enterprise vs consumer product.

Rather impressive how quickly the hackers reverse-engineered Microsoft's patch and used the vulnerability whilst the opportunity was still available: The threat group, tracked under names including APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Forest Blizzard, and Sofacy, pounced on the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, less than 48 hours after Microsoft released an urgent, unscheduled security update late last month, the researchers said. After reverse-engineering the patch, group members wrote an advanced exploit that installed one of two never-before-seen backdoor implants.

Oof. Kudos to Notepad++ for being up front with the details.

Bit late to the party, but good to see another country waking up to the realisation that the US cannot be trusted. Now if only my own country would realise that...

Argh. I was hoping to upgrade my server storage later this year...

That's fantastic news! So glad she pulled through.

One can only hope!