Sam Altman Offers $555K Salary To Fill Most Daunting Role In AI
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI is offering a $555,000 salary (plus equity) to recruit a new "head of preparedness," a high-pressure role tasked with anticipating and mitigating extreme AI risks. "This will be a stressful job, and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immedia…
Editor: I'm not sure $555K is actually a competitive base if you have to live in the Bay Area. And - I wonder what valuation the equity component of comp is based on - you need to really believe in the upside here.
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Trust Wallet Confirms $7M Claims Portal After Chrome Exploit Hits
Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Trust Wallet has launched a $7 million compensation process for users affected by a Chrome extension security breach. Only version 2.68 of the Trust Wallet Chrome extension was compromised in the incident. Victims are required to submit wallet addres…
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UK Accounting Body To Halt Remote Exams Amid AI Cheating
msmash / slashdot - The world's largest accounting body is to stop students being allowed to take exams remotely to crack down on a rise in cheating on tests that underpin professional qualifications. From a report: The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), …
Editor: Is it AI cheating, or AI productivity boosting? Accounting is about the application of rules and judgment en masse - it strikes me that the exams need to test student's ability to validate their sources (is the model's output factually correct?) and apply their own judgment - or validate the model's work. I wonder how much of the problem here is poor test design methodology.
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Apple assembly partner victim of a supply chain cyberattack
appleinsider - A Chinese assembler working for Apple was the target of cyberattacks in December, with the event potentially causing product line details to be leaked to attackers.Manufacturing for AppleApple's massive supply chain is a prime target for hackers keen to e…
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(LEAD) Gov't says poor security of femtocells led to major payment breach at KT
Kang Yoon-seung / co - SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Yonhap) -- The science ministry said Monday the security breach ...
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