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View More NewsDozens of detainees at the country’s largest immigration detention center told investigators with civil rights groups that they’re subjected to beatings, medical neglect, malnutrition, and inhumane conditions. In a joint report released today, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) say that the abuses described in interviews with 71 people being held at Camp East Montana, a privately operated immigration detention center inside the Fort Bliss Army Base near El Paso, Texas, violate national and international human rights law. “People during our interviews described unbearable cruelty and international human rights violations,” Angélica César Rosales, a fellow at…
In brief OpenAI introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find vulnerabilities in GPT models before release. The company said GPT-Red was used to train GPT-5.6, reducing failures on one of its hardest prompt injection benchmarks. The system is intended to complement human red teamers, third-party testing, and other AI safety measures. OpenAI has introduced GPT-Red, an automated AI system designed to find security vulnerabilities in its language models.GPT-Red takes its name from cybersecurity red teaming, which is the practice of deliberately attempting to break a system to identify weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.In a post on Wednesday,…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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In brief Jesse Pollak is handing leadership of the Base App back to Coinbase while remaining head of the Base blockchain. Pollak said Base’s…
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Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche faced backlash Wednesday over the Justice Department’s (DoJ) enforcement of crypto-related crimes and other actions as President Donald…
In brief DTCC is testing tokenized stocks and U.S. treasuries with nearly 40 financial firms. Participants include JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Vanguard, and the…
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