I let Claude audit my messy Home Assistant setup, and it was a massive wake-up call

I gave Claude access to my Home Assistant. It helped me audit, debug, and improve my smart home better than I ever could have.
Dark Reading

JadePuffer: The First Complete LLM-Driven Ransomware Attack

An "agentic threat actor" successfully exploited a Langflow flaw to steal data from a production database server and encrypt ...

Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

In the brief history of AI security, the prompt injection has quickly become the top threat. Large language models are ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Setting up a local LLM is the easy part—here's what you need to do with it next

Put your local AI to work.
Ars Technica

Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to steal 2FA code from users

Last Tuesday, Microsoft patched a vulnerability it rated as max critical in its M365 Copilot AI platform. On Monday, the researchers who discovered the vulnerability and reported it to Microsoft ...
Biometric Update

Agentic ransomware attacks show LLM ‘narrating its own intent the entire way’

JADEPUFFER is an agentic threat actor (ATA), or an operator whose attack capability is delivered by an AI agent rather than a ...
Reuters

After Anthropic shutdown, China's Z.ai closes frontier gap as it plans dual listing

Z.ai's stock surges over 20-fold in six months Investors bullish on Chinese AI Latest open-source model closes gap with leading U.S. models Founder highlights open-source advantages vs. Anthropic ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I gave a local LLM full control over my Proxmox node, and it worked better than I expected

It's actually good enough for simple management tasks ...
Gizmodo

Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?

Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why… until now. According to a new preprint ...