AI is reportedly 'democratising' cybercrime by making it easier than ever for bad guys with limited tech skills to have a crack ransomware and other malicious code

Apparently, there are a couple of LLMs which are gaining traction with cybercriminals. That's led researchers at Palo Alto ...
Archaeology

Reading, Writing, and Algorithms

Scholars have long debated how widespread literacy was among the Israelites of the seventh century B.C., during the last decades before the ancient kingdom of Judah fell to the Babylonians and its ...

Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon

According to the research, AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem. “Poetic framing ...

DNA transcription is a tightly choreographed event: How RNA polymerase II regulates the dance

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...
Dark Reading

How Malware Authors Are Incorporating LLMs to Evade Detection

Cyberattackers integrate large language models (LLMs) into the malware, running prompts at runtime to evade detection and augment their code on demand.
Hackaday

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the ...

Data Doctors: beginner’s guide to using AI apps

If you’ve been thinking about installing an AI app but aren’t sure where to start, Ken Colburn has some ideas.