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We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I’m gonna throw up.
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So we’ve been using an AI agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it.
I just found out it’s been hallucinating numbers this entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn’t exist. Our CFO showed the board …

Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/slackbot-ai-agent-upgrade/

Your Slackbot just got a huge AI agent upgrade - what it can do now (starting today)
Slackbot can take action on your behalf. Here's how.

It's kinda weird how the Linux Foundation has accepted to become the dumping ground for tech/infrastructure that fall out of some tech hype. First they picked up a lot of Blockchain stuff, now they do AI infra.

»Hunderte verseuchte Skills — Angreifer schleusen Trojaner in KI-Agent OpenClaw ein:
Hunderte Skills für den KI-Agenten OpenClaw enthielten Trojaner und Datendiebe. OpenClaw und VirusTotal reagieren mit einer Partnerschaft. Doch das grundlegende Sicherheitsproblem von KI-Agenten bleibt.«
Ich behaupte mal, die KI an sich ist ein Sicherheitsproblem in der IT, denn das ist der Virus.
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Hunderte verseuchte Skills: Angreifer schleusen Trojaner in KI-Agent OpenClaw ein
Hunderte Skills für den KI-Agenten OpenClaw waren mit Trojanern und Datendieben verseucht. Jetzt reagieren OpenClaw und VirusTotal, doch das grundlegende Sicherheitsproblem von KI-Agenten bleibt.

Toiling in the #SpamAssassin dungeons today...
It's ridiculous how many bots are still hitting our RuleQA, mostly with referrer-free “detail” URLs, which I made trivial to answer (403) many months ago. Not enough to be a problem, just about 1k-hits per hour. Spread all around the net: latest 1000 hits came from 967 different IPs with 2 IPs accounting for all ofthe repeat visitors. 959…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/115724294573045829
Hopefully AI agents and models will not be derailed by the widespread beliefs of Elon Musk, RFK and their followers showing in mass/social media; anchoring AI output in peer-reviewed PubMed …

Millionenstrafe gegen X: Musk fordert Abschaffung der EU, Account wird gesperrt
Die Reaktionen auf eine moderate Geldstrafe gegen X sind harsch, der US-Außenminister spricht gar von einem „Angriff“. Die Plattform selbst reagiert unerwartet.

Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced.
But where does that lost tire material go?
The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways,
where the tiny microplastic particles from the tires’ synthetic rubber carry several chemicals that can transfer into fish, crabs and perhaps even the people who eat them.
Millions of metric tons of plastic waste enter the world’s oceans every year.
In recent times, tire wear particles have been found t…

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources revealed – and it’s not straws or bags
Tire wear particles have been found to account for about 45 per cent of all microplastics in both terrestrial and aquatic systems

The most obvious tell of this sort of incident is the phone call.
The only IT or #infosec folks who will proactively call you about an attempt at hijacking an account are those of your employer or *maybe* your access provider.
Google, Microsoft,Apple, etc. are not calling everyone with suspicious activity on their accounts. There are not enough support agents on the planet to do that…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Millionenstrafe gegen X: Musk fordert Abschaffung der EU, Account wird gesperrt