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brianmcnulty

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    Comment #48601094

    Long time no see! It's been a while since I've looked at MCP, but I think this does a really good job at making MCP more secure for organizations and addressing some of the weaknes…

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    Comment #48464238

    Why would you have ethics when you could get that IPO money instead?

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    Comment #48463998

    I wonder how Claude Fable will live up to expectations and how good those Fable/Mythos classifiers really are. It seems a bit convenient for Anthropic to release this magical insan…

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    Comment #48460936

    That seems to conflict with the recent security blog that says they are using Google Cloud infra and NVIDIA GPUs with PCC now [0]. They are allowing it to run on Intel and NVIDIA a…

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    Comment #48460209

    They do this by allowing you to download all of the components (minus data cryptexes containing the model weights) and run it on your own Apple silicon chip (you can put your compu…

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    Comment #48450241

    No, it's more that those apps needs to be able to make all of the tool calls Siri AI can make, which would allow third-party developers to collect data they shouldn't have access t…

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    Comment #48449432

    I think it's because Apple would have to provide every competitor (including ones running off-device with no confidential compute) with the same level of access Siri AI would get, …

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    Comment #48377540

    Yeah, it seems another ATO bug has popped up. I haven’t looked too much at it personally, but I hope Meta plans on taking their Meta AI Support Assistant offline until it undergoes…

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    Comment #48374747

    Not exactly, I think part of the tools it has access to allows it to perform an "investigation" into recent malicious activity and account changes that may have occurred that were …

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    Comment #48369091

    You should also assume the user can read any data you send back from a tool call or data you add to a user response. If any part of the input or output is controllable by an attack…

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    Comment #48360249

    I do a lot of bug bounty research on Meta and Instagram, and some of the bugs I find look extremely simple like this but have some slightly complicated reason for why they occur. M…

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    Comment #48214846

    Based on what I can tell, this bug just allows a persistent service worker to run forever by downloading a large file and not letting it complete? Security impact is pretty limited…

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    Comment #47938729

    I assume a fair amount of these on-prem customers restrict access to their GHES instance to be behind corporate VPN or something similar and are planning a date to upgrade their in…

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    Comment #47937805

    The tweet is confusing and makes it sound like the RCE was as simple as `git push -o "x;`whatever command`"`, but there are a few more things they have to specify that they mention…

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    Comment #47836000

    It's interesting that Next is becoming so popular when LLMs supposedly have a capability to work with all these other frameworks that don't create a dependency on something like Ve…

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    Comment #47723144

    I heard that JWTs are 5x the price of JSON tokens but only 3x if you have JSON ForULTRA+ (new) (for work or school).

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    Comment #47697157

    It has been up and down today, specifically with authentication breaking. I also saw an error message with backend SQL in it (in my 6 years of Meta bug bounty security research, I …