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World-class threat modeler Adam Shostack shared he was "blown away" by OpenAI's revelations about the Hugging Face attack, and explains why his new threat model for LLMs is both "lightweight yet still usable."
Pokémon Center is notifying customers in the United Kingdom and Germany that it suffered a third-party data breach after hackers stole customer personal and order information from third-party logistics provider CEVA Logistics. [...]
Like many of us, Sam Rosenthal plays games like Wordle every day, chasing after good scores and sharing the results with friends and family. But he's also a game designer, the creative director at Blaseball developer The Game Band, and so this regular habit got him thinking about what else could be done in the space. "When I was a kid and I played word games with my family, they weren't the New York Times puzzle games," Rosenthal explains. "We were sitting in a car on a road trip playing these r
The Uncomfortable Truth You’ve spent days prompt-engineering your LLM. You’ve benchmarked Claude against GPT. You’ve debated whether to use Mixtral. But your RAG pipeline is still returning garbage answers, and you’re blaming the wrong component. The LLM is only as good as the context it receives. Context quality is entirely determined by retrieval. Retrieval quality is entirely determined by your embedding model. Fix the bottom, and the top fixes itself.
Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a
Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.
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