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Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Software Security Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The tech giant’s AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors while maintaining a low false positive rate. “These signatures are grounded in how trigger inputs measurably affect a model’s internal behavior, providing a technically robust and operationally meaningful basis for detection,” Blake Bullwinkel and Giorgio Severi said…
If you’ve experienced relentless, torturous insomnia in the wake of a COVID infection, I’m here to tell you that it’s not all in your mind. An emerging body of research suggests that insomnia, along with other sleep disturbances, can be an unexpected part of COVID infection and recovery. I know this misery firsthand. When struck by a very “mild” case of COVID in June, I slept deeply, in almost a stupor — until I didn’t. Then, I experienced the strangest, most painful months-long stretch of insomnia of my life. Nearly every night, I would awake sometime around 2 a.m., my…
If the words “sleeper sofa” still conjure images of a musty, squeaky, lumpy pull-out mattress with the thickness and support of a peanut butter sandwich, you may want to take a look at what’s been going on in the world of convertible furniture lately.Modern-day sleeper sofas now come with luxe, real mattresses, like the Tempur-Pedic in Joybird’s Eliot, or offer multiple sitting and sleeping configurations, like the Koala Wanda. The Neptune, from Montreal-based, direct-to-consumer home goods brand Cozey, aims for something entirely different: a couch with modular components that can be moved or added to, along with seats that pull out to…
MIT senior Katie Spivakovsky has been selected as a 2026-27 Churchill Scholar and will undertake an MPhil in biological sciences at the Wellcome Sanger Institute at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall.Spivakovsky, who is double-majoring in biological engineering and artificial intelligence, with minors in mathematics and biology, aims to integrate computation and bioengineering in an academic research career focused on developing robust, scalable solutions that promote equitable health outcomes.At MIT’s Bathe BioNanoLab, Spivakovsky investigates therapeutic applications of DNA origami, DNA-scaffolded nanoparticles for gene and mRNA delivery, and co-authored a manuscript in press at Science. She leads the development of an…
Trucking intelligence startup GenLogs Corp. says it’s going to inject artificial intelligence smarts into the freight industry after raising $60 million in a new round of funding today. The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures and saw participation from the likes of IVP, Cathay Innovation, 9Yards, Venrock, Steel Atlas, HOF Capital, TitletownTech and Autotech Ventures. It brings the startup’s total amount raised to date to $81 million. GenLogs was founded in 2023 by a trio of former U.S. intelligence community professionals who hit upon the idea of applying analytical rigor to what used to be one of the…
Key Takeaways Cloud malware avoids files, running in memory and abusing cloud-native services to evade legacy antivirus Attackers exploit misconfigured IAM, APIs, storage, and legitimate management tools for stealthy persistence Fileless execution, living-off-the-land techniques, and encrypted cloud C2 now dominate cloud attacks Static, dynamic, and behavioral analysis must work together for effective detection Memory forensics and behavioral baselining are critical for uncovering hidden threats Layered visibility across workloads, identities, and traffic is essential to stop modern cloud malware Cloud environments power modern business, but they also attract sophisticated malware. Attackers target cloud storage, virtual machines, and APIs to hide malicious…
Washington state’s Legislative Building, which houses the Legislature. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) Washington state Democratic leaders on Tuesday at last unveiled their so-called “millionaires tax” — a proposed 9.9% tax applied to taxable, personal annual income that exceeds $1 million. For the first time in decades, the lawmakers are advancing a personal income tax aimed at high‑income residents that would go into effect in two years, and pairing it with small business and low‑income tax breaks. The action comes as the state is struggling to plug a more than $2 billion budget hole with spending cuts and a slate…
AI SaaS trends are deceptive. Absolutely no one can tell you where they are going- or what’s going to happen to AI. Maybe it will follow the ‘.com’ curve. Explode, reiterate, and come back new and improved. Or maybe the SaaS models might disappear because of this AI boom- everything is just Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. No API calls and wrappers- no SaaS solutions posing as AI. Let’s see where it leads us. Believe it or not, SaaS AI trends are following the same path as Go. Go is a fascinating game embodying the art of war and Zen. The…
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This week I’m in Hong Kong, and the day after recording, I gave the talk shown in the image above at INTERPOL’s Cybercrime Expert Group. I posted a little about this on Facebook and LinkedIn, but thought I’d expand on what really stuck with me after watching other speakers: the effort agencies are putting into cybercrime prevention. It’s very easy for folks to judge law enforcement solely on what they see from the outside, and that’s mostly going after offenders and taking down criminal infrastructure. But the bit I’m increasingly seeing behind the scenes is a push to help kids…