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Activists Are Using 'Fortnite' to Fight Back Against ICE

WIRED

Players are roleplaying ICE raids in and to prepare for real-world situations. SteveTheGamer55 is live on YouTube . He's streaming a session to his 4.6 million subscribers of, a mod that allows people to role-play with other players. "Really wanna show you guys some real-life scenarios," he says, offering a little background on his character, a man headed to his job while on a work visa. His character doesn't get far before an SUV swings onto the sidewalk in front of him; masked ICE agents spill out of the vehicle.


Fight Back Against Jailbreaking via Prompt Adversarial Tuning

Neural Information Processing Systems

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved tremendous success in various applications, they are also susceptible to jailbreaking attacks. Several primary defense strategies have been proposed to protect LLMs from producing harmful information, mostly focusing on model fine-tuning or heuristical defense designs. However, how to achieve intrinsic robustness through prompt optimization remains an open problem. In this paper, motivated by adversarial training paradigms for achieving reliable robustness, we propose an approach named Prompt Adversarial Tuning (PAT) that trains a prompt control attached to the user prompt as a guard prefix. To achieve our defense goal whilst maintaining natural performance, we optimize the control prompt with both adversarial and benign prompts. Comprehensive experiments show that our method is effective against both grey-box and black-box attacks, reducing the success rate of advanced attacks to nearly 0, while maintaining the model's utility on the benign task and incurring only negligible computational overhead, charting a new perspective for future explorations in LLM security.


Florida property owners pestered by spying drones could soon be allowed to fight back with 'force'

FOX News

A new bill moving through the Florida Senate would give homeowners the right to use "reasonable force" to take down drones infringing on their right to privacy, directly conflicting with federal airspace regulations while raising new legal questions regarding how far a person can go to defend their home from surveillance. The bill primarily focuses on further regulating the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) while broadening the scope of locations that are protected from drone flights within the state, such as airports and correctional facilities. Notably, the bill would permit homeowners to use "reasonable force" to stop a drone from infringing on their expectation of privacy. A bill proposed in the Florida Senate would allow homeowners to use "reasonable force" to take down drones infringing on their right to privacy. "No one wants to have a drone sitting over their property, filming what they do for any number of reasons," Florida-based attorney Raul Gastesi told Fox News Digital.


The AI-powered grandma taking on scammers

FOX News

Daisy is an artificial intelligence-powered grandma created to interact with scammers. Are you tired of scammers calling your phone, trying to trick you into giving away your hard-earned money? Many people are fed up with the constant barrage of fraudulent calls and messages. But what if you could fight back in a fun and creative way? Enter the world of scambaiting, where people waste scammers' time and resources instead of falling for their tricks.


AI deepfakes are endangering democracy. Here are 4 ways to fight back

FOX News

With the recent explosion of AI, dazzling images, videos, audio and texts can now be easily generated by anyone with just a few simple inputs. While this technology offers many astonishing benefits, it also poses significant dangers. Among the most pernicious of these is the creation of deepfakes – highly realistic yet manipulated or fabricated content that falsely depicts real people doing or saying things they never did. Our ability to discern fact from fiction, along with democracy itself, are in the crosshairs. In recent months, deepfakes have entered the mainstream like never before.


Meet the Ukrainian tech startups fighting back against Russia's cultural war: 'This war taught us what being resilient really means'

Daily Mail - Science & tech

For Ukraine's tech startups, the last two years have been anything but business as usual. Despite drone strikes and a battered war-time economy, cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa remain home to a thriving tech ecosystem. As the war grinds on, a number of Ukraine's entrepreneurs have been fighting their own battle with Russia. Yet their fight has not just been to preserve their country's territory - but also its identity. MailOnline spoke with the CEOs and founders of some of these startups to learn how they have been using technology to fight the war for Ukrainian culture.


AI 'Fingerprinting' Fights Back Against Hard-to-Detect Cancers

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Hard-to-detect cancers like glioblastoma can have survival rates in the single-digit percentages and require elaborate techniques to detect, treat, and monitor. Reveal Surgical is working on changing that reality through its new, AI-based Sentry technology, which leverages a combination of AI and Raman spectroscopy to provide real-time tissue diagnostics during surgery for otherwise-invisible tumors. Raman spectroscopy is the use of light scattering from a laser to detect molecular structures and compositions of a material--in this case, tissue. Chris Kent, CEO of Reveal Surgical, explained that the company uses Raman spectroscopy (which is an optical, non-invasive imaging technique) to "fingerprint" different types of tumors, allowing doctors to fingerprint a tissue sample and compare it to those on record via Reveal's software. "We've basically designed a cancer fingerprinting machine and a database of fingerprints in our system, via … Raman spectroscopy," Kent said. "We're able to offer doctors real-time molecular data about the tumor they're encountering in vivo."


Tesla says it is building a 'friendly' robot that will perform menial tasks, won't fight back

Washington Post - Technology News

Tesla has a history of exaggerating timelines and overpromising at its product unveils and investor presentations. The company unveiled its Cybertruck electric pickup in November 2019, though the company recently acknowledged it would not be delivered until 2022 at the earliest. The company also held a battery day last year to debut its next generation battery cell, which would be outfitted in its top of the line Model S Plaid-Plus edition.


The societal threat is terrifying, but deepfakes needn't provoke deep pessimism - The EE

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There can be no doubt that the ability of AI to create fake multi-media content that is utterly convincing to humans represents a real and present threat to society, says Tim Winchcomb, head of technology strategy in wireless and digital services at Cambridge Consultants. The democratisation of manipulation techniques means that YouTubers already aspire to Hollywood-grade visual effects, while malicious individuals across the world stand ready to weaponise their synthetic realities. Yet all is not lost industry players are stepping up to meet the deepfakes challenge, convinced that a collaborative response will allow technology, and ultimately society, to prevail. The term deepfakes is a construct of deep learning essentially multi-layered neural networks and fake, which of course refers to misleading and usually harmful content that purports to represent reality. It can be particularly terrifying that these bogus moving and still images, audio or written text can be created in real-time.


Boston Dynamics: Robots Now Fight Back

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"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. "If Elon Musk is wrong about artificial intelligence and we regulate it who cares. If he is right about AI and we don't regulate it we will all care." "In the next 5 years we will see supply chain robotics and automation turn industries upside down." "There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics.