Microsoft Uncovers ‘Whisper Leak’ Attack That Identifies AI Chat Topics in Encrypted Traffic

Microsoft has disclosed details of a novel side-channel attack targeting remote language models that could enable a passive adversary with capabilities to observe network traffic to glean details about model conversation topics despite encryption protections under certain circumstances. This leakage of data exchanged between humans and streaming-mode language models could pose serious risks to the privacy of user […]

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How Neoliberalism Is Digging the Holes of Flagging, Indebted Economies Even Deeper

Yves here. The article below explains how both advanced and emerging economies can remedy their seemingly intractible problem of high public debt levels and low growth: by properly focusing spending on productivity/output increasing areas, such as infrastructure and health, and increasing efficiency of govenment operations. Note that this analysis immplicity assumes that the countries in […]

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