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The spectacular multimillion-euro heist nobody noticed
It has been described as Germany's most spectacular bank heist in years. On a quiet weekend just after Christmas, a group of thieves broke into a High Street bank in the western town of Gelsenkirchen, by boring through a wall with an industrial drill. They looted more than 3,000 safe deposit boxes and made off with millions of euros. Over a month later, police have yet to make an arrest. For the bank's clients, some of whom say they have lost their life savings and precious family jewellery and valuables, this is a time of anger, confusion and shock.
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Thieves snatch eight Matisse artworks from library in Brazil
Two armed men have stolen eight engravings by French artist Matisse and at least another five by Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari from a library in São Paulo. Brazilian officials say the thieves held up a security guard and an elderly couple who were visiting the library before making off with the artworks on foot. They reportedly entered the library by the main entrance at 10:00 (13:00 GMT) on Sunday, and left by the same route, heading towards the nearest metro station. The heist comes less than two months after the art world was rocked by a brazen break-in at the Louvre museum in Paris, where thieves made off with priceless jewels. The engravings stolen from Biblioteca Mário de Andrade on Sunday formed part of a joint exhibition with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art.
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Thieves are stealing keyless cars in minutes. Here's how to protect your vehicle
Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Thieves are stealing keyless cars in minutes. Here's how to protect your vehicle Cars are parked bumper to bumper in the Florence neighborhood on Nov. 18 in Los Angeles. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here .
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We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments. Reviewers noted that Grover generates "extremely credible" articles (R2) and that due We appreciate this point and will revisit the word choice. We haven't seen the model We believe that our "novel way to guide generation" makes Grover novel, not just an Indeed, GPT(2), BERT, XLnet, and Grover share the same backbone but learn from different objectives. What is given to the turkers? For overall trustworthiness for instance, we asked "Does the article read like it comes "It takes a thief to catch a thief"?
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Hail to the Thief: Exploring Attacks and Defenses in Decentralised GRPO
Blagoev, Nikolay, Ersoy, Oğuzhan, Chen, Lydia Yiyu
Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has demonstrated great utilization in post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs). In GRPO, prompts are answered by the model and, through reinforcement learning, preferred completions are learnt. Owing to the small communication volume, GRPO is inherently suitable for decentralised training as the prompts can be concurrently answered by multiple nodes and then exchanged in the forms of strings. In this work, we present the first adversarial attack in decentralised GRPO. We demonstrate that malicious parties can poison such systems by injecting arbitrary malicious tokens in benign models in both out-of-context and in-context attacks. Using empirical examples of math and coding tasks, we show that adversarial attacks can easily poison the benign nodes, polluting their local LLM post-training, achieving attack success rates up to 100% in as few as 50 iterations. We propose two ways to defend against these attacks, depending on whether all users train the same model or different models. We show that these defenses can achieve stop rates of up to 100%, making the attack impossible.
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What to Know About the Shocking Louvre Jewelry Heist
In just seven minutes, the thieves took off with crown jewels containing with thousands of diamonds along with other precious gems. Police stand outside the Louvre after a brazen theft. Could the French TV series have been prophetic? The show envisioned a heist at the Louvre, an event that became reality on the morning of October 19, when a group of professional thieves managed to break into the world-famous Paris museum . In just seven minutes, they stole a host of priceless French crown jewels.
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Why is it seemingly impossible to stop phone thieves?
Even if you have never had your smartphone stolen, you probably know someone who has. In London, 80,000 phones were stolen last year alone. And as victims of phone theft know, while the loss of a pricey gadget can sting, the dreary administrative slog in replacing a device that runs your entire life can, in some ways, be worse. So why can't we stop phone thieves – and is there a better way to protect your personal data? The answer is partly down to the numerous ways that criminals profit from stolen phones, but it is also about technology firms prioritising usability over security and international governments failing to arrive at a global solution.
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