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Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents
Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an email or calendar invitation is often all it takes to cause the LLM to exfiltrate sensitive data or follow other…
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The Best Tech for Back to School
As summer melts away like a fruity Popsicle left on a poolside deck chair, our thoughts turn to the coming school year. Whether they’re prepping for middle school, high school, or college, all students heading back to class will need the right gear. The WIRED Reviews team has spent years extensively testing consumer tech for…
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Cut the number of choices you make each day — Your brain will thank you
Jeans that fit perfectly. The ideal Netflix show for a Tuesday night. Your one and only soulmate. Modern life promises that with enough options, you will happily find the best of everything. But behavioral scientists say the increasing flood of choices — whether it comes to shopping, social lives or relationships — is doing the opposite. Behavioral scientists say…
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Dean Cain says Hollywood’s woke era is ending: ‘We’ll look back and say that was stupid’
Over 30 years later, Dean Cain still believes that Superman’s values epitomize the American experience. As the star of the hit ABC series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” Cain brought the superhero to life for millions of Americans. But he almost ended up in Hollywood by accident. He originally planned to play professional football…
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DSA member says she has no problem supporting ‘secret Nazis’ under one condition
Far-left podcaster Emma Vigeland raised eyebrows this month with her reaction to Maine oysterman Graham Platner’s political collapse. Vigeland, a former Young Turks correspondent who now co-hosts The Majority Report With Sam Seder podcast, said on a separate Vox podcast that she doesn’t care if a progressive or socialist candidate has “Nazi” skeletons in their closet. “I…
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Dear Abby: I don’t want to sound like a spoiled brat, but I want my friends to celebrate me
DEAR ABBY: I have two best friends going back to third grade (we’re in our 30s now) and one older sister. I’m the last in my friend group to get married. My fiancé and I are eloping this summer. We already own a house and need nothing, so I told my mother and sister that…
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Democrats turn on congressional hopeful after ‘hiding’ LGBTQ+ views from Muslim voters
A Washington state Democrat hoping to unseat a longtime member of Congress is facing a revolt from within her own party, after reportedly saying she left LGBTQ+ rights off her campaign website because she feared alienating Muslim voters. Seattle Red first reported that Democrat organizations were reconsidering their endorsements of Melissa Chaudhry, a progressive Democrat challenging longtime Rep.…
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Winner of historic $1.82B Powerball jackpot revealed as Arkansas mayor’s little brother
The mysterious winner of the historic $1.82 billion Powerball jackpot drawing on Christmas Eve has been unmasked as the younger brother of an Arkansas mayor who was under investigation for assault earlier this year. Tracy Hartwick, whose brother Terry Hartwick is serving his third term as North Little Rock mayor, claimed the second-largest Powerball jackpot…
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Florida schedules two death row executions on same day for first time in 60 years
Two death row inmates are scheduled to be put to death on the same day in Florida — the first double execution in the Sunshine State in over six decades. Governor Ron DeSantis rescheduled the execution of former police officer and convicted child murderer James Duckett for 12 p.m. on July 28, exactly six hours…
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‘Slave tourism’ argument in Trump-friendly SCOTUS brief flagged by legal expert
A law professor flagged a legal theory from a Trump amicus brief that he says would let foreigners bring enslaved people into the U.S. During an interview on the Legal AF podcast, legal expert Paul Gowder talked about American legal scholar Richard Epstein and an argument he made in an amicus brief filed in Trump’s…