Researchers at Binghamton University have shown that a backdoor can be implanted in a language-model-driven robot without touching the robot or the central model. The compromised component is the slim adaptation layer that fits a general-purpose model to a specific environment, and once it is poisoned, a short invented keyword is enough to make the … Read more
Ask a general-purpose chatbot about an internal policy and it will often answer from memory — fluently, confidently and occasionally wrong. Retrieval-augmented generation, better known as RAG, is the fix the industry settled on: before composing a sentence, the system searches a document collection you supplied, pulls the passages that look relevant and drafts its … Read more
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has quietly expanded a vulnerability-auditing programme built around artificial intelligence, and the results deliver two very different headlines. The first is encouraging: AI agents proved remarkably effective at hunting down security flaws across government infrastructure. The second is far more uncomfortable, and it is the one the official … Read more
Meta has deployed a new layer of artificial intelligence aimed at a stubborn loophole in its advertising machine: campaigns that look entirely harmless but exist only to funnel users toward child sexual abuse material hosted off its platforms. Instead of hunting explicit imagery — a job its hash-matching systems have handled since 2011 — the … Read more