The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents

More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers — distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 — neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen… Continue reading The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents

Open Redirects: A Forgotten Vulnerability?, (Tue, Feb 24th)

In 2010, OWASP added “Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards” to its Top 10 list and merged it into “Sensitive Data Exposure” in 2013 [owasp1] [owasp2]. Open redirects are often overlooked, and their impact is not always well understood. At first, it does not look like a big deal. The user is receiving a 3xx status code and is being redirected to another URL. That target URL should handle all authentication and access control, regardless of where the data originated.

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Anthropic Claims Chinese AI Firms ‘Distilled’ Claude to Train Their Models

Anthropic claims Chinese AI firms distilled Claude to train rival AI models, raising concerns about model extraction, security risks, and AI distillation abuse. Continue reading Anthropic Claims Chinese AI Firms ‘Distilled’ Claude to Train Their Models