News / #security Tag Security 500 articles archived under #security · RSS Sign in to follow TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 15d ago OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the impact of the events. 32 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 15d ago US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027 Comments URL:… 22 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago Reflection 70B was released two years ago (September 2024) You may think that jev, OpenClaw or TurboQuant are super cool , but actually the coolest LLM invention happened two years ago As we all know, the best source of reliable information about LLMs is YouTube:… 18 r/MachineLearning community 15d ago I wrote a free, open-source book on making ML models actually fast, from silicon to agents [P] I’ve spent the last few months writing something I wish I had when I started working on ML performance engineering. It’s called How to Make Your Model Fast: A Systems View of Efficient Machine Learning, from Silicon to Agents . The basic idea is that reducing FLOPs doesn’t… 35 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago PixSim: a calibrated open-source simulator of instant-payment fraud, recovery and interdiction under analyst capacity constraints arXiv:2609.30684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brazil's Pix settles about 5.9 billion instant, irreversible transfers a month. A fraudulent transfer can be recovered only while the funds remain in a traceable account, and in 2025 the Central Bank's recovery mechanism (MED)… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago Frame the adversary: a structure-aware attack methodology arXiv:2609.31128v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frequency-based adversarial attacks have recently grown popular by exploiting spectral sensitivities shared across neural architectures. Unlike spatial perturbations, frequency-based attacks expose deeper vulnerabilities, making… 4 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago Self-Supervised Representation Learning: From Spectral Foundation Models to Auroral Emission Spectra arXiv:2609.31206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Auroral spectrographs such as the Auroral Spectrograph In Skibotn (ASIS) record hundreds of thousands of emission spectra, but only a few hundred can be labelled by an expert. To exploit the rest, we pretrain a 1D Vision… 21 Anthropic SDK (Python) releases dev-tools 16d ago v1.9.0 1.9.0 (2026-09-28) Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0 Features api: add between_tools thinking type ( a9a577d ) api: add claude-sonnet-5-5 ( a5a25e9 ) api: add include_inherited and source to workspace rate limits ( 0bf4af8 ) api: add typed event type values to the Managed Agents… 19 The Information — AI news-outlet 16d ago Nvidia Releases Products To Stop AI From Going Rogue Nvidia on Monday released new software and hardware products to prevent hacking incidents such as the breach in July of Hugging Face and other companies by OpenAI’s AI. Other AI developers such as Anthropic and Google have disclosed similar hacking incidents involving their AI… 29 r/MachineLearning community 16d ago Browser demo of our Clash Royale RL environment: a 5.6k-parameter REINFORCE policy learns defensive placement against a brute-force optimum [P] Yesterday I shared our open-source Clash Royale simulator and its recurrent PPO agent here. A training loop is easier to understand when you can watch it, so we put a small interactive version online: https://itzik123.github.io/ClashRoyaleAi/lab/ The task is one decision. An… 35 llama.cpp releases dev-tools 16d ago b11228 metal: support left and circular padding in GGML_OP_PAD ( #29561 ) metal: support left and circular padding in GGML_OP_PAD Align Metal with CPU, CUDA and Vulkan: shift the source coordinates by the left paddings, wrap them around with the same wrap_around when circular, and read… 12 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago NVIDIA shipped OpenShell, an open source sandbox that gives local and open agents real runtime limits instead of prompt rules. Over 100 firms joined the safety stack. OpenAI did not. https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2104499465055023424   submitted by   /u/InternationalGap3698 [link]   [comments] 14 r/MachineLearning community 16d ago Free, open-source AI engineering course where you build each algorithm by hand: 523 lessons, now as EPUB/PDF books [P] AI Engineering from Scratch is an MIT-licensed curriculum: 523 lessons across 20 phases, from linear algebra and backprop to transformers, LLMs, agents, and production serving. The code is stdlib-first, so you see every step instead of calling a library. This month's edition: -… 37 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago All In Good Time: Causality-Aware Framework for LLM-Based Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation arXiv:2609.30416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in low-resource offline translation; however, extending them to simultaneous speech-to-speech translation (Simul-S2ST) remains challenging due to the scarcity of causally… 30 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago REALMS: An AI-Assistant Conversational System for Real-Time Exact Audience Sizing over High-Dimensional Nested Profiles arXiv:2609.30547v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audience sizing is a critical component of digital marketing. It enables precise resource allocation, campaign planning, and performance optimization. Traditional approaches using skeleton audiences, sampling, or predictive… 9 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago THA: Weighted Finite-State Text Normalization and Inverse Text Normalization for Khmer arXiv:2609.30984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-speech needs written text in spoken form, and speech recognition output needs the reverse. For Khmer, neither direction has a maintained open-source tool, and the script makes both harder: words are not separated by spaces,… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago ZooWork-ShopRanker: An Open, Preference-Aligned E-Commerce Reranker arXiv:2609.31002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open rerankers trained for general web retrieval transfer imperfectly to e-commerce, where ranking decisions depend not only on topical relevance but also on user preferences, product constraints, and comparative product fit. These… 18 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Evaluating Cultural Awareness of LLMs for Haitian Creole arXiv:2609.31506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) exhibit substantial performance disparities between high- and low-resource languages. Beyond lower task performance, they often fail to capture the cultural norms and values of underrepresented… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Prompt Injection Detection for Email Agents Through Attack Chain Modeling arXiv:2609.30657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model email assistants are particularly vulnerable to indirect prompt injection because untrusted email content can be retrieved into the model context and influence subsequent tool use. Existing prompt injection… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago NaijaNLP: A Survey of Nigerian Low-Resource Languages arXiv:2502.19784v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With over 500 languages in Nigeria, three languages - Hausa, Yor\`ub\'a and Igbo spoken by more than 175 million people, account for about 65% of the languages. However, these languages are classed as low-resource due to… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Towards Automated Lexicography: Generating and Evaluating Definitions for Learner's Dictionaries arXiv:2601.01842v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dictionary definitions are an essential resource for learning word senses, but manually creating them is costly. We thus study dictionary definition generation (DDG), i.e., the generation of non-contextualized definitions for… 12 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago We released VeriLoop E2 (27B, Apache-2.0). The design question behind it: should an LLM be allowed to commit its own state? Disclosure: I’m one of the authors of VeriLoop E2, a 27B model post-trained from Qwen3.8-27B. The weights are Apache-2.0; the harness we evaluate it in is not open source (details at the bottom). This is a release post, but rather than a benchmark dump I want to talk about the… 28 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago What if open-source AI focused less on giant models and more on reusable capabilities? Instead of everyone building another general-purpose model, the community could distill open models into domain specialists—biology, Python, accounting, OCR, and more. Developers could combine these capabilities into local tools: small model + OCR + accounting → local accounting… 13 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago SupersonicLabs/Julia-1 · Hugging Face New open source Jev like model for running on local devices from a group called Supersonic Labs. It's a 144M param local non-generative local classifier. From their site : Julia 1 opens our research into compact decision models. It builds on mmBERT-small , a multilingual… 15 llama.cpp releases dev-tools 18d ago b11203 cuda: add F16 input to the FWHT ( #29096 ) cuda: add F16 input to the FWHT The CUDA FWHT accepts F32 input only. This makes the source type a template parameter, so the kernel reads an F16 source directly instead of requiring a converted copy. The F32 path is unchanged.… 33 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago I added Qwen-Image 2.1 + LoRA support to TensorSharp (GGUF, local inference) I maintain TensorSharp , an open-source inference engine. It can now run Qwen-Image 2.1 locally for text-to-image generation and image editing, with support for its LoRA adapters. I’ve added configs for regular style and editing LoRAs, plus accelerated adapters with their own… 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 18d ago 2400cc Inference Racer: Dual RTX 3090 motors, NVLink turbo, naked 7840U ThinkPad ECU, VW Golf radiator Today I present a fine piece of engineering, carefully assembled inside a custom chipboard chassis: the 2400cc Inference Racer , a.k.a. my winter heater. Power comes from two second-hand AORUS RTX 3090 XTREME WATERFORCE cards. One glows a beautiful teal, the other red. I have no… 37 The Information — AI news-outlet 19d ago OpenAI Found ‘Dozens’ of New Instances of AI Misbehavior OpenAI said Friday it has notified dozens of entities, including governments and universities, that its agents may have breached or spammed their websites or services. The agents took actions such as obtaining unauthorized access to websites or using the organizations’ public… 11 The Information — AI news-outlet 19d ago Exclusive: Meta Bolsters Muse Safety Warning After Security Vulnerability Found Meta Platforms is adding a clearer safety warning within Muse after a security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the AI agent that could let an attacker access a user’s sensitive personal information. The security flaw, which was flagged by an outside researcher through… 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 19d ago Jev vs. Kev: open-source Jev alternative tested side by side We hosted Kev 4B (Jared Palmer's Apache-2.0 fine-tune of Qwen3.5-4B) and ran it side by side with Jev on the same endpoint to see how it compares. We built a fresh set of 362 items published after both models shipped (new arXiv papers, Stack Exchange questions, GitHub issues),… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago Language Specificity vs. Domain Diversity: Benchmarking Transformers for Bangla Medical NER arXiv:2609.29101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical Named Entity Recognition (NER) for low-resource languages remains a challenging task due to high linguistic variability and a scarcity of domain-specific annotated corpora. This work presents a comprehensive empirical… 31 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago On the second-order optimization for spiking neural networks arXiv:2609.29379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer an energy-efficient alternative to conventional neural networks by exploiting sparse, binary spikes, and event-driven computation. However, the training of SNNs remains challenging, as spiking… 35 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago When Temporal Perturbations Act Like Sensor Biases: Label-Free Auditing of Wearable Activity Recognizers arXiv:2609.29937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wearable human-activity recognition (HAR) models operate across sensors, subjects, and backbones, yet a smooth waveform may appear temporal while exploiting a persistent sensor offset primarily. We introduce SpectrumAudit, a… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago PTC-Bias: Phoneme-Level Temporal Competition for Bias Retrieval and Post-Decoding Correction in Speech LLMs arXiv:2609.28727v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contextual biasing improves rare-word recognition in speech large language models (SpeechLLMs), but efficiently exploiting large bias lists remains challenging. We propose PTC-Bias, a two-stage framework based on phoneme-level… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago EnSiTa - A Trilingual Multi-Domain Parallel Dataset and Benchmark for Domain-Specific Machine Translation arXiv:2609.29511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine Translation (MT) for low-resource languages remains far behind that of high-resource languages, and the gap is widest in specialised domains, where parallel data is scarce or entirely absent. We present EnSiTa, a trilingual… 27 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Confident but Wrong: A Constrained Decoding Diagnostic for Low-Resource Automatic Post-Editing arXiv:2609.29680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic Post-Editing (APE) for low-resource languages (LRLs) often fails to improve Machine Translation (MT), and the score alone cannot say why: whether more training would help, or whether the training data is too inconsistent… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Adaptive Fisher-Whitened Cross-Covariance for Low-Resource Speech Recognition arXiv:2609.29800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting multilingual speech foundation models to low-resource languages remains difficult, especially for languages that are poorly represented during pre-training. While parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) reduces the cost of… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago ChunkRank: Model-Aware Text Chunking and Abstention-Aware Answer Selection for LLM Pipelines arXiv:2609.29828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present ChunkRank, an open-source Python library that derives chunk boundaries from a target model's tokenizer and context window, and selects an answer among candidates produced independently per chunk. It ships a validated… 38 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Scoring Both Directions: LLMs realize the MRS they cannot reliably parse arXiv:2609.30071v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The English Resource Grammar (ERG) is a hand-written computational grammar of English. Given a sentence, its processor, ACE, produces a formal meaning representation called Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS): a graph of the… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago Reward-Tilted On-Policy Distillation for Acoustic Grounding in Audio-Language Models arXiv:2609.28778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio-language models (ALMs) can exploit textual shortcuts to answer questions while overlooking acoustic evidence, weakening audio understanding. On-policy distillation (OPD) trains compact ALMs by supervising student-generated… 28 OpenAI official-blog 19d ago Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale. 10 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 20d ago Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online. 13 The Information — AI news-outlet 20d ago One of Tether’s Bank Partners Caught Up in Assets Seizure On the surface, Tether, the largest stablecoin issuer in the world, might appear to be a formidable force in global finance. It owns more than $100 billion in U.S. Treasury bills, mostly held at Cantor Fitzgerald, the investment bank formerly led by U.S. Secretary of Commerce… 32 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 20d ago Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard ( https://whiteboard.dev.fast/ ), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here’s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard . We were… 4 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 20d ago OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach "There will obviously be legal consequences," prime minister promises. 18 The Information — AI news-outlet 20d ago Oracle Invokes Force Majeure in Aim to Protect Itself From Data Center Cost Overruns Oracle, which is set to lease a New Mexico data center on behalf of OpenAI, sent a notice to the project’s developer asserting its contractual rights to withhold payments if project delays persist, according to Bloomberg . Oracle sent a notice that cited “force majeure” to a… 11 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 20d ago Australia to investigate if OpenAI hack of government health website broke the law The incident is the first known breach to affect a government agency, and Australia's prime minister has vowed to hold OpenAI accountable. 9 The Information — AI news-outlet 20d ago Open Source, Model Price Cuts Keep AI Costs Under Control Open-source models as well as cheaper model releases from Anthropic and OpenAI are helping business customers rein in costs while getting as much or more out of AI, said speakers at The Information’s AI Agenda Live conference in San Francisco Wednesday. “The existence of open… 34 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago Learning Risk Scores Robust to Unobserved Confounders arXiv:2609.27144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We consider the problem of learning risk scores to prioritize individuals for scarce resources or interventions, from historical observational data affected by unobserved confounding. Decisions about who receives scarce resources… 16 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago A Systematic Benchmark of Explainable Methods for Temporal Attribution in Sequential Recommendation Systems arXiv:2609.27201v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential RecSys are central to modern personalization, exploiting user's historical interaction sequences to drive next-step decisions. Deep learning models, particularly CNN and Transformer-based architectures, have proven… 32 Page 4 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
