Episode #215: Smart Bulb Vulnerabilities; No way to stop LLM adversaries; Security Lapse Reveals Locations of Artworks; Steve Jobs retires

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This Day, August 24, 25 and 26 in Tech History

🇺🇸 Marcel Brown, St. Louis, Missouri ↗

"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come." Steve Jobs, August 24th, 2011.

Smart Bulb Vulnerabilities Allow Homes to Be Hacked

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia ↗

Researchers from universities in Italy and the UK have released a paper disclosing four vulnerabilities in a popular smart bulb . The vulnerabilities allow hackers to control other smart home devices and gain access to the wifi network.

There’s no way to stop LLM adversaries. None.

🇺🇸 Mark Miller, New York City↗

From the research paper, " Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models", the research team at CMU describe how they created adversarial prompts for the public interfaces to ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude, as well as open source LLMs, such as LLaMA-2-Chat, Pythia, Falcon, and others.

Security Lapse Reveals Locations of Artworks

🇺🇸 Katy Craig, San Diego, California ↗

On a recent Wednesday evening, a university professor in western Germany prepared paintings for auction at Christie's . Using his iPhone, he snapped pictures of these artworks intending to upload them to Christie's website. As the images were uploaded, their GPS coordinates were unknowingly revealed to anyone who viewed them online.

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