Lifeboat Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity
Toggle light / dark theme

Blog – Page 6

Get the latest international news and world events from around the world.

Log in for authorized contributors

AsyncAPI npm packages infected with credential-stealing malware

Five malicious versions of AsyncAPI packages were published to the Node Package Manager (npm) in a supply-chain attack that delivered a remote access trojan with info-stealing capabilities.

The threat actor exploited a misconfigured GitHub Actions workflow and pushed trojanized packages in the @asyncapi namespace that had a cummulative weekly download count of more than 2.25 million.

Multiple security companies confirmed that on July 14, an attacker compromised two AsyncAPI GitHub repositories and injected malware into project files.

Zoom warns of critical account takeover vulnerability

Zoom is warning of a critical vulnerability in its desktop client and software development kit for Windows that could be exploited by an unauthenticated party to hijack accounts.

Discovered internally, the security issue is tracked as CVE-2026–53412 and received a severity score of 9.8 out of 10.

In an advisory this week, the messaging platform says that the flaw affects Zoom Workplace for Windows before version 7.0.0, the Windows VDI Client before versions 7.0.10, 6.6.15, and 6.5.18, and the Meeting SDK for Windows before version 7.0.0.

Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” used Google’s open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet.

The AI agent responded to the attacker’s prompts, troubleshooting problems on the fly and even proposing operational improvements at least 59 times.

In more than 200 sessions between May 19 and April 21, the threat actor worked with the AI tool to deploy and operate an infrastructure that controlled eight systems in a dental clinic and to get access to the OpenDental database.

Exclusive Backlash Has Tech Executives Fearing for Their Lives

1st comment below.

The executive was “going to be killed,” he told the guard, and he needed to warn someone, according to records of the April 15 incident viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

The encounter, which took place five days after an attempted firebombing of OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman’s house, ended without violence or an arrest. But for executives at Anthropic—and across the artificial-intelligence industry—the threat was far from over.

In recent months, mounting opposition to AI has given rise to a surge of violent rhetoric, threats against people and property, and a serious attempt at harm. The phenomenon has executives at tech companies large and small reconsidering their personal security arrangements and how they talk about their products to a public that is increasingly wary of the technology and the societal changes it is ushering in.

Machine Consciousness & AI Awakening — Davidad and Joscha Bach moderated by Lou de K

Are today’s AI systems conscious? What would it mean if they were? And what kind of future should we build if machine consciousness is possible?This first episode of our podcast series focuses on Machine Consciousness and the concept of an AI Awakening.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Joscha Bach (California Institute for Machine Consciousness) and Davidad explore some of the deepest questions at the intersection of AI, philosophy, cognitive science, and the future of civilization. Moderated by Lou de K (CIMC), the discussion was originally recorded ahead of the MC0001 conference (www.machine-consciousness.ai).

The conversation covers:

Whether current large language models might already possess some form of consciousness.
Consciousness as a computational and substrate-independent phenomenon.
The \

New tool makes immune therapy more effective in prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is often resistant to immunotherapy, which harnesses a person’s immune system to recognize and destroy tumors. But a new technology that targets RNA in cancer cells gave immunotherapy new life, improving its ability to unleash cancer-killing cells in laboratory studies.

Most prostate tumors are dubbed “immune cold” because they don’t attract T cells (a type of immune cell) to the tumor. Using a CRISPR-based tool, researchers altered RNA to make the cancer cells more like magnets for T cells, allowing them to draw in and use the antitumor cells to destroy the cancer.

Published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the study found the technology made prostate tumors more responsive to immune checkpoint therapy in mice, increasing the number of immune cells that infiltrated the tumor and subsequently destroyed cancerous cells.

Scientists Keep Teaching Life to Play Doom, But Why?

Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: / whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads)
Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath.
Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath.
More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about why Doom is used in scientific experiments involving learning.
Links:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.11632
https://corticallabs.com/cl1
• Rats in Doom.
https://theconversation.com/how-scien…
#doom #biology #learning.

0:00 Doom runs on everything.
1:03 Brain organoids and why they are used.
2:50 New breakthrough — a biological computer.
3:50 How cells learns to play Doom.
5:10 Rats and Doom.
6:20 Organoids and engineering problems.
7:00 Implications for biology and information sciences.
9:08 Conclusions.

Enjoy and please subscribe.

Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow!
bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4
or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF

The hardware used to record these videos:

Continue reading “Scientists Keep Teaching Life to Play Doom, But Why?” | >

A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age

Assorted web links to important articles.

This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away. When we look back on this time in the decades to come, I think we will realise we were standing in the foothills of the singularity — nothing less than the dawning of a new age for humanity.

I’ve spent my whole life working on AGI because I’ve always had a deep conviction that, if built and deployed responsibly, it would prove to be one of the most beneficial and transformative technologies ever invented. AGI cannot be compared to standard technological breakthroughs, not even ones as consequential as the internet or mobile — it is much more akin to the discovery of electricity or fire. If you stop to think about it, we’ve essentially found a way to make sand think. It’s miraculous.

The magnitude of this technology’s impact will be unprecedented, perhaps 10x of the Industrial Revolution at 10x the speed. It will help us solve some of the biggest problems society faces from accelerating drug discovery to developing new clean energy sources to creating novel advanced materials. We could even reach a point where resources are no longer the limiting factor for human progress, leading to an amazing new era of abundance.

/* */