NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.
Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.
Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order "safety" is risky. 1/
Most of my law practice is advising technology companies expanding their markets, into or out of Canada. If Bill C-22 Lawful Access passes, "Made In Canada" will mean "Backdoored", significantly harming the international market for Canadian technology products and services.
Canadian employers are paying the price after AI proves unable to replace laid off staff
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/car...
“Palantir is first of all a dehumanizing company. It is a terrifying company because of the amount of political and financial support it has.”
Gift link:
Foundations of Digital Sovereignty: Chapter 6
If Canada is serious about increasing our sovereign cloud capacity, government procurement is by far the most powerful tool at our disposal.
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The latest Canadian Cyber in Context Canadian Cyber News Rewire is now available. The Government’s new AI Strategy has dropped and everyone but the AI companies are unhappy. Beyond this, ongoing coverage of Bill C-22 and other news.
www.cyberincontext.ca/p/canadian-c...
My thanks to Quinn Henderson for speaking with me for this story.
My understatement of the century: "It's not instilling a lot of trust."
www.readthepeak.com/p/why-are-se...
I've played enough Shadowrun for this to make total sense.
Thank you @aballinga.bsky.social for speaking with me about risks related to DND's Palantir contract.
Why was this a sole-source contract? We're focusing on the contract itself, but why did CAFSOFCOM think Palantir was the only one that could do this?
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Canada's Department of National Defence kept secret how much it paid for a contract with the controversial American tech company Palantir, according to newly released documents.
Amnesty is recruiting a Technologist in their team researching digital surveillance abuse, this is an amazing position in an amazing team. Location is limited to a few places and deadline is really soon
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The Canadian American Business Council has submitted a scathing brief on Bill C-22, warning it raises fundamental privacy concerns, weakens encryption, and threatens our bilateral partnership on data security. My post on how business views lawful access.
The Public Safety committee continues its clause-by-clause review of Bill C-22 this week, even as all the stakeholder briefs on lawful access have still not yet been distributed or published. Late…
I was truly not prepared for a future in which the phrase "stolen compute from Chipotle's AI chat bot" makes any kind of sense.
Michael Geist
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Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others. (via @masnick.com) [github.com]
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The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & m...
