Daily IT Briefing
In cybersecurity news, commercial spyware dubbed "Landfall" was found to have compromised Samsung phones for nearly a year, allowing for data theft and surveillance. Meanwhile, research into artificial intelligence suggests that AI is surprisingly better at mimicking intelligence than faking toxicity, with a new "computational Turing test" reportedly catching AI bots with high accuracy.
The space industry sees a strong commitment from Blue Origin, with its CEO stating the company will "move heaven and Earth" to help NASA reach the Moon faster. However, the ongoing government shutdown is also having an impact, forcing commercial rocket launches to occur at night due to FAA concerns about operational capacity.
Data archiving and privacy are in the spotlight as the FBI has subpoenaed domain registrar Tucows to reveal the operator of the mysterious Archive.is website as part of a criminal probe. In other AI-related news, unusual leaks from ChatGPT, including chat logs found in a Google analytics tool, suggest potential data scraping from Google services.
Sources:
- Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year
- Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
- Blue Origin will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says
- FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site
- Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool
Sources
- Commercial spyware “Landfall” ran rampant on Samsung phones for almost a year
- Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
- Blue Origin will ‘move heaven and Earth’ to help NASA reach the Moon faster, CEO says
- FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site
- Oddest ChatGPT leaks yet: Cringey chat logs found in Google analytics tool