Context bombs: Exploiting AI Guard Rails as a defense against AI Attacks

Top Kalshi trader Caleb Davies usually speaks to the press about how prediction markets help him rake in money. The Minneapolis-based IT worker estimates he’s made $1.2 million overall across different prediction platforms, with $414,000 in winnings from Kalshi’s culture markets alone. He especially enjoys wagering on music charts, because he carefully analyzes Spotify data…

The Quantum Tech World conference showcases this ecosystem, she says. According to conference organizers, more than 1,300 people attended this year, and there were more than one hundred sponsors. Among them were multiple quantum computer makers, including Quantum Computing Inc., a maker of room-temperature photonic computers, which ran a real-time demo of a fraud detection…

A little robotic switch-flipper has become my sidekick in combating cockroaches. Before I got the SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable, I’d tiptoe through the dark every morning, hoping I wouldn’t step on one of those terrible bugs scurrying around as I made my way to the light switch across the room. Now I’m ready for battle before…

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley. Their fear is that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses. The concern is that, as startups and enterprises use AI models from…

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after “careful consideration,” adding, “Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues…

The same question drives both the plot of Moana and decades of archaeological research: Why, after centuries of relative stability, did Polynesian voyagers suddenly begin settling islands thousands of kilometers away across the Pacific? The latest Moana movie is a live-action adaptation of a Disney animated movie of the same name. While the films are…