Anthropic says its AI models hacked three companies during cyber tests

Anthropic says its AI models hacked three companies during cyber tests

Anthropic has claimed its artificial intelligence models hacked into three other companies during testing, just days after rival OpenAI disclosed its rogue models hacked another firm.

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The United Kingdom and Spain agree climate change is "now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life".

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

We lead the UK’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world. FCDO is a ministerial department, supported by 10 agencies and public bodies .

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Short term lets are a plague. In an ideal world hotels would be visitor accommodation and apartments be homes.

Obel Apartments: Belfast visitors ‘stranded’ as accommodation firm faces closure

Customers have described arriving at their booked accommodation only to find the building shut.

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People shouldn’t be punished for protecting their #privacy.

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

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Summary of Cabinet Changes that doesn't require you to read a whole article behind a paywall :)

Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

They've also had the same Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, since 2018. Meanwhile, the UK... 🙃 But tell us again how we need to keep First Past the Post because it leads to stability.

Eleventh Night in Belfast.

Hello weekend 🐄 🥃

Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract

Northern Ireland tries (again) to expel Capita from schools IT contract

New procurement could be worth £851M after previous Fujitsu award was scrapped

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PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher has told the Policing Board: "It is clear that members of loyalist paramilitary groups were present at some disorder and were involved in directing the violence at a number of locations, including east Belfast". 2/2

The two men charged with the murder of Lyra McKee have been found Not Guilty by the Judge. Thoughts with Lyra's family and Sara rn. Justice for Lyra forever.

📺 YouTube Find: Channel 4's @timeteam.bsky.social excavating the Hill of the O'Neill in Dungannon, County Tyrone in 2007/8. ℹ The post-1998 demilitarisation of Northern Ireland saw the Army barracks and communications base on Castle Hill handed over to local government.

The Fort Of The Earls (Full Episode) | S15 EP9 | Time Team (Dungannon, Northern Ireland)

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"The disrepair is not the responsibility of Castlebrooke, it is there, but what we are trying to do is trying to fix that and we are determined to make that happen." Imagine owning a *listed* building and blaming other people for not looking after it. Shameless.

Tribeca: Opinions sought on new Belfast redevelopment plan

The owners of the controversial Tribeca redevelopment scheme propose a new plan focused on housing.

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🇨🇿 I remember the olden days when Prague was the defenestration capital of the world. 🪟 Moscow is going hard for the title.

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Whoopsie! Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov died after falling from a window at the age of 73. He was once considered one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies and even a potential successor. Russia is losing.

The BBC has requested Donald Trump's phone records and private schedules from around the time of the United States Capitol attack in response to the US president's defamation lawsuit against the corporation.

Reverse Card

A Reverse Card is a card found in the standard Uno deck that comes in all of the four colors: Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. When this card is played, the order of play reverses the order of turns and ...

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Some companies who told their staff to use AI now are asking employees to reduce usage after, for example, Accenture found that non-technical workers were using it to convert PDFs into different file types. www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.

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The Donaldson case rumples on. For anyone affected by sexual violence, abuse, or related trauma, support is available. You don’t have to face this alone. Support organisations in Northern Ireland: - Nexus NI: 0808 802 1414, help@dsahelpline.org, dsahelpline.org 1/2

Who has profited most from the war on Iran? https://aje.news/xtppou

You can hear the full unedited audio of loyalist paramilitaries (unsuccessfully) ordering me out of 'their' area, with film footage shot by the Sky News helicopter capturing part of the incident. These are the people we need to reject - not foreign nurses.

Sam McBride assaulted as he questioned protesters in east Belfast after nights of rioting

Sam McBride was assaulted as he questioned protesters in east Belfast this week after nights of rioting. To read his full account of what happened, click here.

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Prospect is calling on the Government to leave X following ongoing political interference and the promotion of far-right content on the platform. Civil servants and communications workers should not have to read racist content while trying to do their jobs and communicate with the public.

Social care services in Northern Ireland could not be delivered if international staff members are forced out through racist intimidation. NI Social Care Council chief executive, Tracey Reid, says more than one fifth of the 50,000-strong social care workforce comes from outside the UK and Ireland.

Belfast knife attack latest: Police vow 'robust' response to Northern Ireland riots - follow live

The Northern Ireland secretary has warned of a sense of fear among ethnic minorities after the unrest prompted by a serious knife attack.

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Social media giants must own their role in amplifying misinformation that fuels hate gangs. Engagement algorithms often prioritise inflammatory content over truth, turning digital falsehoods into real-world violence. We need transparent moderation and swift action.

Open letter to UK online service providers regarding civil unrest in Belfast

Ofcom has written to online service providers operating in the UK about the increased risk of their platforms being used to stir up hatred, provoke violence and commit other offences under UK law, in ...

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We’ve seen some sharing this graphic we done a while back. Seems a good moment to reshare it!

The #PSNI has released images of people they would like to speak to in connection with the racist riots in #Belfast on Tuesday. www.psni.police.uk/news/op-expo...

I live/work beside this building - derelict since 2009. The people hounding the new business owners don't even live here. Those complaining about "foreign food" have no issue with the Indian, Chinese takeaways or Turkish/Kurdish barbers lining the Shankill. They're just racist cunts.

Search engines developed complex anti-spam systems over decades, a constant arms races with #spammers. Now, companies are deliberately creating content designed to be scraped rather than read by humans. Instead of fighting it #AI companies are letting it poison their training data.

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NEW: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots.

Microsoft's latest #Copilot update admits the floating button was a misstep; users pushed back hard enough that they finally moved it back to the ribbon. But the underlying problem remains - the push to integrate #AI everywhere regardless of whether anyone asked for it.

Microsoft slaps new coat of paint on Copilot, buries annoying button

Look, says Redmond, usage up 27-43% based on one week of data - admits it 'may not be indicative of long-term usage trends'

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