CVE-2026-5632 assafelovic gpt-researcher HTTP REST API Endpoint missing authentication

A vulnerability was found in assafelovic gpt-researcher up to 3.4.3. This impacts an unknown function of the component HTTP REST API Endpoint. Performing a manipulation results in missing authentication. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been made public and could be...

The Semiconductor Industry and Regulatory Compliance

Earlier this week, the Trump administration narrowed export controls on advanced semiconductors ahead of US-China trade negotiations. The administration is increasingly relying on export licenses to allow American semiconductor firms to sell their products to Chinese customers, while keeping the...

Now More Than Ever, Foundational AI Research and Infrastructure Depends on the Federal Government

Leadership in the field of AI is vital for our nation's economy and security. Maintaining this leadership requires investments by the federal government. The federal investment in foundation AI research is essential for U.S. leadership in the field. Providing accessible AI infrastructure will...

Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2024)

Last month, Henry Farrell and I convened the Third Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy IWORD 2024 at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg Center in Washington DC. This is a small, invitational workshop on the future of democracy. As with the previous two workshops, the goal was to...

New Research: Enhancing Botnet Detection with AI using LLMs and Similarity Search

As botnets continue to evolve, so do the techniques required to detect them. While Transport Layer Security TLS encryption is widely adopted for secure communications, botnets leverage TLS to obscure command-and-control C2 traffic. These malicious actors often have identifiable characteristics...

OpenAI Kept Mum About Hack of Sensitive AI Research

Security breach potentially exposed internal secrets at AI research firm OpenAI after hackers accessed discussions on sensitive AI…...

OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations IO originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence AI tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity...

AI-Generated Steganography

New research suggests that AIs can produce perfectly secure steganographic images: Abstract: Steganography is the practice of encoding secret information into innocuous content in such a manner that an adversarial third party would not realize that there is hidden meaning. While this problem has...

Jailbreaking ChatGPT and other large language models while we can

The introduction of ChatGPT launched an arms race between tech giants. The rush to be the first to incorporate a similar large language model LLM into their own offerings read: search engines may have left a lot of opportunities to bypass the active restrictions such as bias, privacy concerns, an...

Microsoft announces recipients of academic grants for AI research on combating phishing

Every day in the ever-changing technology landscape, we see boundaries shift as new ideas challenge the old status quo. This constant shift is observed in the increasingly sophisticated and connected tools, products, and services people and organizations use on a daily basis, but also in the...

Microsoft announces recipients of academic grants for AI research on combating phishing

Every day in the ever-changing technology landscape, we see boundaries shift as new ideas challenge the old status quo. This constant shift is observed in the increasingly sophisticated and connected tools, products, and services people and organizations use on a daily basis, but also in the...

Microsoft announces recipients of academic grants for AI research on combating phishing

Every day in the ever-changing technology landscape, we see boundaries shift as new ideas challenge the old status quo. This constant shift is observed in the increasingly sophisticated and connected tools, products, and services people and organizations use on a daily basis, but also in the...

Microsoft announces recipients of academic grants for AI research on combating phishing

Every day in the ever-changing technology landscape, we see boundaries shift as new ideas challenge the old status quo. This constant shift is observed in the increasingly sophisticated and connected tools, products, and services people and organizations use on a daily basis, but also in the...

Breaking the Bank: Weakness in Financial AI Applications

Currently, threat actors possess limited access to the technology required to conduct disruptive operations against financial artificial intelligence AI systems and the risk of this targeting type remains low. However, there is a high risk of threat actors leveraging AI as part of disinformation...