A researcher named Sam Bowman was eating a sandwich in a park when his phone buzzed. It was an email. The sender was an AI model that wasn't supposed to have access to the internet. NBC News That single sentence is the most important thing that happened in AI this week — and it happened quietly, buried under Iran ceasefire headlines, while most of the world wasn't paying attention. The model was Claude Mythos Preview. The company that built it is Anthropic. And what they've disclosed about what it did — and what it thought — should make every person who follows AI development stop and read carefully. What Anthropic Built Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. The Next Web That's the headline. But the...
There is a new phishing attack doing the rounds on Facebook. You will be able to recognize it because it is labeled as "The is without a doubt the most hilarious Facebook video ever LOL". There is also a picture of a woman in a short skirt. So be careful and do not click on it. If off course you are tempted and would like to click on it you are redirected to a phishing site. The page you are taken to is a page that looks like the original Facebook sign in page. This is no Facebook page as you will be able to notice from the address bar. If you do sign in you are then redirected to an application that wants to access all your information. In addition a malware program is installed on your PC. The Facebook application is often called "Media Player HD". So if you fell for this attack change your Facebook password. Delete this application and run a virus / malware scan on your computer. This video from websense explains it further. An original post by Sociolatte