• How to break security on any modern LLM-based AI system: Just keep nagging it with idiocy until it gives up.  (The Register)
  
  Because of the many things that LLMs are not, high among them is security models:

  "The most practical mitigation today is not to rely solely on the model for safety. We advocate for a 'defense-in-depth' approach, using external systems like AI firewalls or guardrails to monitor and block problematic outputs before they reach the user. A more permanent, though much more difficult, solution would involve building safety into the model's foundational training from the ground up."

  LLMs inherently have no concept of security; they at best pretend that they do.
  
  If you want any kind of security, you have to implement it using something else.  LLMs offer no security themselves and never will.
  
  
  
• Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales - between begging for money - says the site could used AI.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
  
  Wikipedia editors say in unison, the hell we can.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Is GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs  (GMPLib)
  
  Plausibly, yes, it you run GMP constantly for months on end.
  
  
  
• Google has eliminated 35% of its managers in the past year.  (CNBC)
  
  It's a start.
  
  
  

How Those Early Atari Computers Worked

Strangely.

They had a sort of precursor to the Amiga's "Copper" hardware that automatically reconfigured things inside the hardware, and used it to create visual effects that were not directly possible for the limited hardware.

Bacon Interlude