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Large language models are pretrained on vast, uncurated corpora scraped from the public web. This creates a security risk from attackers who plant poisoned content in the pretraining data. We show for the first time that such poisoning can plant a remote code execution backdoor in an agent, causing it to execute attacker-chosen commands on the user's machine. To measure the threat end to end, we pretrain Qwen3 models from scratch at sizes 0.6B, 1.7B, and 4B, and then post-train each into a CLI…
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Oracle filed plans on Monday to issue new shares and more debt to finance its artificial intelligence buildout.
AI summary The article discusses the purpose of mathematics in the AI era and the debate between invention and discovery in mathematical work.
AI summary SOML is a config format that combines the comfort of YAML with JSON's strictness, using syntax to determine types.
AI summary Ubuntu has not released a patch for a critical Linux 0day RCE vulnerability in 3 weeks, affecting multiple LTS versions.
AI summary Astra, a frontier LLM, can read and write neural network weights to improve models like Qwen.
AI summary A study published in Nature found that methods to measure cognitive reappraisal don't agree, affecting emotional resilience research.
AI summary Snap settles a lawsuit accusing it of contributing to teen depression and eating disorders through addictive platform design.
AI summary Ford promises not to sell customer driving data to data brokers, following GM's settlement.
