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Meet ShadowLeak: ‘Impossible to detect’ data theft using AI
For years threat actors have used social engineering to trick employees into helping them steal corporate data. Now a cybersecurity firm has found a way to trick an AI agent or chatbot into bypassing its security protections. What’s new is that the exfiltration of the stolen data evades detection by going through the agent’s cloud…
MIT tool visualizes and edits “physically impossible” objects
M.C. Escher’s artwork is a gateway into a world of depth-defying optical illusions, featuring “impossible objects” that break the laws of physics with convoluted geometries. What you perceive his illustrations to be depends on your point of view — for example, a person seemingly walking upstairs may be heading down the steps if you tilt…
Small TVs are near impossible to find today, and that’s a shame
Summary Small TVs are going extinct, and there’s not much we can do about it. Sacrificing image quality for small TVs ruins the entertainment experience. TVs have gotten bigger and cheaper, making small TVs less appealing. When it comes to TVs these days, many people subscribe to the notion that bigger equals better. In many…
This Isn’t Supposed to Happen: Troubleshooting the Impossible | CSS-Tricks
I recently rebuilt my portfolio (johnrhea.com). After days and days of troubleshooting and fixing little problems on my local laptop, I uploaded my shiny new portfolio to the server — and triumphantly watched it not work at all… The browser parses and runs JavaScript, right? Maybe Chrome will handle something a little different from Firefox,…
Mission: Impossible should never have gone full sci-fi
The Mission: Impossible film franchise has always dabbled in the, well, impossible. We’ve seen Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt climb his way up the Burj Khalifa, have a motorcycle joust to prevent the spread of a bioweapon and hang off the side of an airplane. Even the most grounded entry, Brian DePalma’s 1996 Mission: Impossible, featured…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Might Be Able To Do The Impossible And Satisfy All Fans
Earlier this month, I got to try out Assassin’s Creed Shadows via a livestreamed four-hour preview. Just a week before that preview, Ubisoft had announced that the next main entry in the open-world franchise about sneaky assassins and evil Templars had been delayed. Again. It’s clear that Ubisoft really needs a big win here and…