Jon PENNYCOOK

@jonpsp@mstdn.social
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"what is it you want in return, Carnifex?"
"It must be some kind of weird reality bleed-through effect"
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Jon PENNYCOOK1m ago
Show threadKevin Beaumont2h ago

Tabletop scenario for you:

Employee gets into a dispute with employer, leaves, had sensitive role. Employer revokes access, devices etc. Employee had logged in via BYOD to email, IM etc.

Due to Recall, employee walks away with 6 months of screenshots of everything she's ever worked on in a text indexed form - every email, chat, document, Teams call with video snapshots, transcripts of verbal calls etc - even if they set M365 to not store documents locally.

What does the employer do now?

Jon PENNYCOOK2m ago
Charlie Stross1h ago

George Santos given seven-year prison term for fraudulent congressional run

(How long until Trump pardons him?)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/george-santos-republican-sentenced

George Santos given seven-year prison term for fraudulent congressional run

Republican former representative who had lied about his credentials sobbed in court saying he was ‘humbled’

The Guardian
Jon PENNYCOOK5m ago
Kriszta Satori40m ago
#BBCNews - BBC licence fee 'unenforceable', says culture secretary
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrz18882ygo
BBC licence fee 'unenforceable', says culture secretary

Lisa Nandy tells the Telegraph "no options are off the table" when it comes to its review into the broadcaster's charter.

Jon PENNYCOOK5m ago
Kriszta Satori39m ago
#BBCNews - Water bosses could now face jail for cover-ups
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yrwl1wgdjo
Water bosses could now face jail for cover-ups

New powers mean law-breaking executives can be sent to prison for up to two years.

Jon PENNYCOOK6m ago
Steve Herman13m ago
Pro Publica - A Treasury Department inspector general is probing efforts by President Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE to obtain private taxpayer data and other sensitive information. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-irs-treasury-tigta-inspector-general-probe
Inspector General Probes Whether Trump, DOGE Sought Private Taxpayer Information or Sensitive IRS Material

The request, spelled out in an email obtained by ProPublica, comes amid concerns that DOGE has overstepped its bounds in seeking highly restricted private information about taxpayers, public employees or federal agencies.

ProPublica
Jon PENNYCOOK25m ago
Dan Goodin32m ago

Researchers at HiddenLayer have developed a prompt injection that successfully bypasses instruction hierarchy and safety guardrails across ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Llama, DeepSeek. Qwen, and Mixtral. It bypasses
model alignment and produces outputs that violate AI safety policies. The outputs concern Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear; mass violence; self-harm; and system prompt leakage.

I'm still on the fence about whether these sorts of prompt injections are newsworthy. I mean, how valuable the information they yield is already easily found on the Internet. Anybody want to weigh in?

https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/

Novel Universal Bypass for All Major LLMs

HiddenLayer’s latest research uncovers a universal prompt injection bypass impacting GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and more, exposing major LLM security gaps.

HiddenLayer | Security for AI
Jon PENNYCOOK8h ago
Show threadCharlie Stross10h ago
@kalleboo @bodhipaksa There's a factory town in China that makes screws. Literally ANY screw you can imagine, in any gauge, in ridiculous quantities, for very litle money. Consequently nobody in the USA makes screws any more. Or injection molds. Or LCD displays, or PV panels, or tires. Repeat ad nauseam. And if you want to start making tires in the USA? You need molds, and they're held together with screws, and the line SCADA controllers probably have LCD status displays …
Jon PENNYCOOK8h ago
Kevin Beaumont23h ago
Ziff Davis trying to replace their journalists with generative AI, realising nobody wants to read generative AI, then suing the same generative AI provider for copyright infringement is pretty funny. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/business/media/ziff-davis-openai-lawsuit.html
Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI

Ziff Davis, which owns more than 45 media properties, is accusing the tech company of infringing on the publisher’s copyrights and diluting its trademarks.

The New York Times
Jon PENNYCOOK8h ago
Show threadKevin Beaumont23h ago
M&S still dealing with a major cyber incident https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly802x1jz5o
Cyber attack causes further chaos for shoppers at M&S

Customers have reported problems with click and collect orders as well as card and contactless payments.

BBC News
Jon PENNYCOOK8h ago
Steve Herman19h ago
USAGM, asking a federal judge to stay his preliminary injunction, tells the court it can’t allow VOA staffers to physically return to work all at once because they’re now a potential security risk after threatening emails were received following last month’s shutdown. #SaveVOA