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...t 42 researchers have identified an issue where using default configurations in Amazon Web Services (AWS) AgentCore Harness could allow attackers to steer an agent's actions through prompt injection to exfiltrate plaintext credentials m...
Interesting essay from Cory Doctorow about Amazon's business model. "Of all the ingenious, innovative ways that Amazon came up with to make money, the most successful is a scam that makes everything ...
...us Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw. Power Leak: Amazon Kiro IDE Prompt Injection Enables Data Exfiltration. Attackers Exploit MCP RCE, Blind Prompt Injection and Memory Credential Theft Against AI Infrast...
...ug pull. Make an API to become the obvious schelling point… and then remove it. Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter all did this. How it works: there's a growing 1P platform that then opens up an API so 3Ps can build on it. It's much easier f...
...planted X comment, to phish the victim's WhatsApp contacts and buy ourselves an Amazon order on their card." Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls. "Atlassian AI 'Rovo' is susceptible to zero-click data exfiltration via in...
Amazon Files CFAA Lawsuit Against Perplexity's Comet Agent. The Silo Wars are heating up!
...cker. So an industry coalition set out to do a proper, deep solution: SET. Then Amazon came out and people went, "Oh I can buy whatever book I want on here? Here's my credit card!" The limiting factor was not the purported strength of t...
Amazon Wins Court Order Blocking Perplexity AI Shopping Agent "The order sides with Amazon's claim Perplexity accessed password-protected accounts without a...
Alexa isn't your assistant. It's Amazon's assistant, situated in your kitchen.
... get in a doom loop that causes harm in the outside world. For example, some of Amazon's warehouses are designed for robots, not humans. Although any system, even "airgapped" ones, there's some information leakage. If the inner system r...
A post on Bluesky reacting to the Amazon outage: "this entire week has been one single PSA: "the cloud" just means "someone else's computer" and that "someone else" is one of three companies...
...ople who are transacting for extremely small time horizons have less incentive. Amazon famously found that every 100ms of delay translates to 1% of revenue. So what if things that most people regret doing, we introduced just a little bi...
...t matter what the actual word is, as long as it's distinctive. Same reason that Amazon has so many slop brands, they don't need a good word, just one that's novel that they can trademark. The acronym is a kind of jargon, a compact packa...
...on from a single game to an integrated game, which incentivizes cooperation. On Amazon in the last decade we've seen the rise of faux brands–made up words that no one has any repeated connection to. It looks like a brand, but the trust ...
"'Alexa, what do you know about us?' What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family's smart speaker had heard" That's the kind of stuff that you capture from people speaking out loud in their homes. Im...
Alexa is not your assistant, it's Amazon's! Similarly, ChatGPT is not your assistant, it's OpenAI's. When Claude makes an artifact, it feels like it made something for you. You didn't make i...
...ou talk to Alexa you have to hope you're staying within the grammar some random Amazon employee took the effort to configure sometime in the past.
...gle Search, the downside is tiny; just immediately do the query again manually. Amazon's search results have famously become quite scammy and crappy, which means trusting Alexa to buy an item for you has gotten harder. The common AI ass...
...ust to the hardware. But it also verifiably locks the cloud host (think Google, Amazon, Microsoft) out from peeking at what is happening. But the risk factor that most people care about as a user is not so much the cloud host, but the s...
...ent you didn't deeply trust to roam around your house out of your view. Imagine Amazon sending a nuclear-fusion-powered humanoid robot to your house for free. Would you allow it into your home? What about if it only worked if it was plu...