YARA-X’s 1.11.0 release brings a new feature: hash function warnings. When you write a YARA rule to match a cryptographic hash (either the full file content or a part of it), what’s actually going on are string comparisons: Function hash.sha256 returns a string (the hexadecimal SHA256 hash it calculated) and that is compared to a…
Nathan BriantSouth of England Annette Bevan Annette Bevan wants other mums to feel that they can play rugby after having a child The co-founder of a rugby club for women who have had children said the sport is ideal for new mums who want to stay active. Annette Bevan, a mum-of-two who currently plays for…
Grok users aren’t just commanding the AI chatbot to “undress” pictures of women and girls into bikinis and transparent underwear. Among the vast and growing library of nonconsensual sexualized edits that Grok has generated on request over the past week, many perpetrators have asked xAI’s bot to put on or take off a hijab, a…
OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload real assignments and tasks from their current or previous workplaces so that it can use the data to evaluate the performance of its next-generation AI models, according to records from OpenAI and the training data company Handshake AI obtained by WIRED. The project appears to be part of…
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings processes text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model architecture. Available through Amazon Bedrock, the model converts different input modalities into numerical embeddings within the same vector space, supporting direct similarity calculations regardless of content type. We developed this unified model to reduce the need for separate embedding models,…
RISC-V Payloads This week brings more RISC-V payloads from community member bcoles. One provides a new adapter which allows RISC-V payloads to be converted to commands and delivered as a Metasploit fetch-payload. The second is a classic bind shell, offering the user interactive connectivity to the target host. Both of these go a long way in…
This post is co-written by TrueLook and AWS. TrueLook is a construction camera and jobsite intelligence company that provides real-time visibility into construction projects. Its platform combines high-resolution time-lapse cameras, live video streaming, and AI-powered insights to help teams monitor progress, improve accountability, and reduce risk across the entire project lifecycle. TrueLook used Amazon SageMaker…
Foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) have been rapidly scaling, often doubling in parameter count within months, leading to significant improvements in language understanding and generative capabilities. This rapid growth comes with steep costs: inference now requires enormous memory capacity, high-performance GPUs, and substantial energy consumption. This trend is evident in the open…
After failed Senate votes late last year and no subsequent bipartisan agreement, the enhanced premium tax credits expired as of January 1. Some states, particularly those operating State-Based Marketplaces (SBMs), have been preparing for this possibility for months and are moving to blunt the impact on consumers by implementing their own state-funded subsidies and implementing other programs aimed at stabilizing the cost of unsubsidized premiums. State-Specific Subsidies SBMs have…
This post is co-written by Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia Itaú (ICTi) and AWS. Sentiment analysis has grown increasingly important in modern enterprises, providing insights into customer opinions, satisfaction levels, and potential frustrations. As interactions occur largely through text (such as social media, chat applications, and ecommerce reviews) or voice (such as call centers and…
