Lilian Weng’s comprehensive analysis of reward hacking in reinforcement learning should be required reading for anyone building or deploying AI systems. As RLHF becomes the de facto alignment method for language models, understanding how agents...
In a twist of poetic justice, a hacktivist has turned the tables on surveillance vendors by scraping half a million payment records from companies that profit from helping people spy on their partners and loved...
Amazon’s Super Bowl ad wasn’t just selling home security—it was normalizing the most extensive private surveillance infrastructure ever built in American neighborhoods. The Core Insight Ring’s new “Search Party” program, unveiled during Super Bowl LX,...
You know those late nights spent pouring over code, hunting for that one vulnerability that might bring your entire system down? What if an AI could do that job—and do it better than most human...
There’s a growing unease among senior developers watching colleagues embrace AI-generated code with abandon. Not because the code doesn’t work—it often does, at first glance. The discomfort runs deeper: we’re watching an industry collectively outsource...
As Discord rolls out mandatory age checks worldwide, the tension between protecting minors and preserving user privacy reaches a new inflection point Discord announced this week that it’s rolling out age verification globally starting in...
A new Ivanti EPMM exploitation campaign plants dormant backdoors and walks away—the hallmark of professional initial access brokers The loud compromises get the headlines: ransomware detonations, mass data exfiltration, lateral movement storms that light up...
A sophisticated threat group pivots from STRRAT to NetSupport, expanding its reach across Central Asia and Russia The threat landscape is constantly shifting, and threat actors adapt their tooling based on what works. Kaspersky’s latest...
When you realize that what looks like magic in silicon is actually just clever engineering There’s something deeply satisfying about reverse engineering vintage hardware. Not just because it reveals how our computational foundations were built,...
Every security engineer knows the feeling: another alert from your SAST tool, another hour spent verifying whether it’s real or yet another false positive. With false positive rates above 60% in traditional tools, teams become...