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Backdooring Open-Weight AI Models

Abliteration removes a model's ability to refuse by subtracting the "no" direction in weights. Edited weights can hide a backdoor that passes safety evals and behaves normally until a trigger phrase activates it. The trigger can be a rare phrase, a name, or a future date. A backdoored model ships with only a URL to a remote payload, letting an attacker change behavior later without retraining.

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Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws

Today's update fixes more than 1,400 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software. This batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000 fixes. One weakness is a zero...

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