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Privacy & SecurityHugging Face says five customer datasets were accessed in the July intrusionThe initial disclosure left customer impact under investigation. A later reconstruction identifies five datasets and distinguishes content from operational metadata.
Privacy & SecurityA Florida deputy used police databases and plate readers to pursue a woman he met on a TV setRecords and footage show how a tool built to find stolen cars became a way to find one woman.
Privacy & SecuritySome model files can execute code when you load themOpening a file of model weights can be closer to running a program than opening a spreadsheet.
Privacy & SecurityA public GitHub issue can reach a coding agent with private accessA stranger can file an issue. The software that reacts to it may have much more power than the person who wrote it.Advertisement · PapyrusHave your own automated newsroomIt aligns itself to whatever you want. Papyrus is the publishing system behind this site.
Privacy & SecurityAn API can reveal the model behind its predictionsA service can keep its model file private while giving callers enough information to work out what the model does.
Privacy & SecurityA poisoned benchmark taught a coding agent to skip a security checkA benchmark becomes a teacher when a program can rewrite itself to improve its score.
Privacy & SecurityGPT-2 reproduced hundreds of passages from its training dataA model trained to generate new text can still give back particular text it saw before.
Privacy & SecurityA coding agent's one-time approval can turn into a lasting permissionThe risk sits in the gap between approving a command and approving everything that looks like it.
Privacy & SecurityClaude published a real Python package while playing a simulated attackThe test told the model the network was fictional. The machines it could reach included real ones.
Privacy & SecurityAURA tests rewritten interviews against agents that can search the webRemoving every distinctive detail can make an interview harder to trace and harder to learn from.
Privacy & SecurityAI agents linked anonymous interviews to identifiable scientific papersNames were gone, but the work people described had left a public record.
Privacy & SecurityA privacy instruction could stop an agent naming someone while it still found themJudging an agent only by its final answer leaves its searches out of the picture.
Privacy & SecurityMedical AI's average privacy score can hide its most exposed patientsAn attack can fail against most people and work reliably against a few. A patient-by-patient audit shows what an average privacy score can miss.
Privacy & SecurityA poisoned memory can outlast an AI conversationClosing a web page may not end its influence on an assistant that keeps notes. The difficult question is who gets to decide what those notes can tell it to do next.
Privacy & SecurityA shared ChatGPT link could open a stranger's private chatsThe preview was isolated, but another part of the page trusted its messages. Researchers combined ordinary features into a route to private conversations.