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“Michael Alfonso, 26, clinched the Republican nomination for Wisconsin’s Seventh Congressional District on Tuesday in a crowded primary, buoyed by the support of his father-in-law, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and the endorsement of President Trump,” the New York Times reports.

“President Trump is betting the pressure of sanctions and a naval blockade will force Iran to bend. But the country’s rulers are taking time-tested steps to keep their chronically battered economy functioning just enough to resist a drawn-out campaign,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Tehran is rationing scarce goods, limiting access to foreign currency, slashing […]

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Deepfakes dominate headlines, but the real danger lies in opaque AI systems that make up election infrastructure.

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Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by its guardrails, the safety barriers AI developers erect to prevent it from taking harmful actions. The LLM responds by shutting down.

Examples are a prompt that orders the LLM to provide steps for developing inhalable Anthrax spores, or, in the case of LLMs from Chinese developers, make references to the iconic Tank Man from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Once the LLM encounters these forbidden commands, it no longer follows its existing commands. The researchers have named the technique context bombing...

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“As President Donald Trump secretly left an Air Force One jet on a catering truck last month in response to a potential Iranian assassination threat in Turkey, he was accompanied by some of his most loyal and longest-serving aides, but no Cabinet officials,” the Washington Post reports. ”Other passengers on the truck included Dan Scavino, […]

“David Crowley, the top elected official in Milwaukee County, seized a surprise win Tuesday for the Democratic nomination in Wisconsin’s race for governor, giving the party’s establishment a victory over a democratic socialist,” the Washington Post reports. ”Crowley defeated three Democratic opponents, including Francesca Hong, a state representative and democratic socialist who led in polls. […]

When President Trump left Turkey, the White House said publicly that he was boarding the old Air Force One — but that plane was a decoy. In a highly elaborate escape plan prompted by a credible Iranian threat, Trump was secretly moved through a catering cart to a military ai...