People Are Paying to Get Their Chatbots High on ‘Drugs’

Petter Ruddwall knows the idea of AIs becoming sentient and seeking to get high with code-based “drugs” seems “stupid.” But the Swedish creative director couldn’t get it out of his head. So he scraped trip reports and psychological research on the effects of various psychoactive substances, wrote a batch of codes modules to hijack chatbot…

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Transparency, Openness, and Our 2023-2024 Financials

Every year, as required by U.S. federal law for 501(c)(3) nonprofits, the Tor Project completes a Form 990, and as required by contractual obligations and state regulations, an independent audit of our financial statements. After completing standard audits for 2023-2024,* we added our federal tax filings (Form 990) and audited financial statements to our website….

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Navigating Change: Evolving Your Exposure Management Strategy in a Post-Kenna World with Qualys

Key Takeaways Cisco is ending support for it vuln management product (formerly Kenna Security) by June 2028 Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) used to be adequate, but is no longer sufficient Exposure assessment platforms allow you to assess risks from all organizational risk surfaces  SOC centralizes post‑attack response, the ROC centralizes pre‑attack exposure management Build your…

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Recent Changes in Federal Vaccine Recommendations: What’s the Impact on Insurance Coverage?

The Trump administration has made several recent changes to federal routine vaccination recommendations. Specifically, under the auspices of Secretary Kennedy, who has long questioned the safety and efficacy of vaccines and stated his intention to review vaccine schedules, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recommended changes (including to age group, type of…

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Unlocking video understanding with TwelveLabs Marengo on Amazon Bedrock

Media and entertainment, advertising, education, and enterprise training content combines visual, audio, and motion elements to tell stories and convey information, making it far more complex than text where individual words have clear meanings. This creates unique challenges for AI systems that need to understand video content. Video content is multidimensional, combining visual elements (scenes,…

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How Tata Power CoE built a scalable AI-powered solar panel inspection solution with Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Bedrock

This post is co-written with Vikram Bansal from Tata Power, and Gaurav Kankaria, Omkar Dhavalikar from Oneture. The global adoption of solar energy is rapidly increasing as organizations and individuals transition to renewable energy sources. India is on the brink of a solar energy revolution, with a national goal to empower 10 million households with…

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