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🗣️ Zelensky: We continue to take our people from Russian captivity. This is the fourth exchange in a week. Today, among the guys who returned to Ukraine, many have been in captivity since 2022.
There are now exactly 365 posts on my blog. So, considering I've been writing it for twenty years, I have a long term average of one post every twenty days, over all that time.
Some of them are good. I'd go further. Some of them are excellent.
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Random thoughts on politics, fiction and software; occasionally interesting.The Fool on the Hill
"As AI agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly versatile and capable of addressing a broad spectrum of tasks, ensuring their security has become a critical challenge. Among the most pressing threats are prompt injection attacks, which exploit the agent’s resilience on natural language inputs — an especially dangerous threat when agents are granted tool access or handle sensitive information. In this work, we propose a set of principled design patterns for building AI agents with provable resistance to prompt injection. We systematically analyze these patterns, discuss their trade-offs in terms of utility and security, and illustrate their real-world applicability through a series of case studies."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #PromptInjection #AIAgents #AgenticAI #CyberSecurity
"Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections (2025) by Luca Beurer-Kellner, Beat Buesser, Ana-Maria Creţu, Edoardo Debenedetti, Daniel Dobos, Daniel Fabian, Marc Fischer, David Froelicher, Kathrin Grosse, Daniel Naeff, Ezinwanne Ozoani, Andrew Paverd, Florian Tramèr, and Václav Volhejn.
I’m so excited to see papers like this starting to appear. I wrote about Google DeepMind’s Defeating Prompt Injections by Design paper (aka the CaMeL paper) back in April, which was the first paper I’d seen that proposed a credible solution to some of the challenges posed by prompt injection against tool-using LLM systems (often referred to as “agents”).
This new paper provides a robust explanation of prompt injection, then proposes six design patterns to help protect against it, including the pattern proposed by the CaMeL paper."
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Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents against Prompt Injections
This a new paper by 11 authors from organizations including IBM, Invariant Labs, ETH Zurich, Google and Microsoft is an excellent addition to the literature on prompt injection and LLM …Simon Willison’s Weblog
Israel’s war with Iran is only getting started - EUROPE SAYS
With the launch of Operation ‘Rising Lion’, Israel appears to have sought to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity. Through its own actions overEUROPE SAYS
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#lawsuits
Even after a judge ordered a halt to regime's war on foreign Harvard students, students were being locked up at Logan for hours and ordered to leave the country, school says
Harvard University says that even with three separate court orders requiring der Tacoführer's minions to let foreign students and professors go to Harvard, the regime found ways to block them from getting past Logan Airport - sometimes by continuing …Universal Hub
![This composite image compares the original, left, and edited versions of an image during the inspection of a then under-construction warship by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right in both images, in March. The red circle in the original image shows the former North Korean chief naval commander, Kim Myong-sik, in military attire, and manager of the Chongjin Shipyard, Hong Kil-ho, looking on as Kim speaks, while the edited image — captured from the North's official Korean Central Television footage aired on June 13 — shows both men to have been digitally removed, in a photo captured from NK News. [SCREEN CAPTURE]](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/2488899 "This composite image compares the original, left, and edited versions of an image during the inspection of a then under-construction warship by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right in both images, in March. The red circle in the original image shows the former North Korean chief naval commander, Kim Myong-sik, in military attire, and manager of the Chongjin Shipyard, Hong Kil-ho, looking on as Kim speaks, while the edited image — captured from the North's official Korean Central Television footage aired on June 13 — shows both men to have been digitally removed, in a photo captured from NK News. [SCREEN CAPTURE]")
#LongCovid #WearAMask
“Police in #Philadelphia are searching for a man who robbed a business while masquerading as a Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, according to Fox 29.”
We’re Now at the Stage Where Criminals Are Impersonating #ICE Agents yahoo.com/news/man-impersonate…
We’re Now at the Stage Where Criminals Are Impersonating ICE Agents
This is what happens when federal authorities are allowed to seize people without identifying themselves.Edith Olmsted (Yahoo News)
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🇺🇸❌ I was not informed in advance about the US intention to reduce aid to Ukraine in 2026. I want to talk about this with Trump, — Zelensky
"I still very much hope that these signals are just signals. We will have the opportunity to talk with Trump during G7 summit in Canada."
Today in 1839, 186 years ago: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire, organises its first regatta, the Henley Royal Regatta.
He chose to serve longer in the Army. Now he's saddled with $40,000 in moving costs. - EUROPE SAYS
Charles Levine was blindsided in February when he was about to retire from the Army and found out it would not cover more than $40,000 in final moving costs —EUROPE SAYS
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Targets included the NNK plant in Samara region and the Nevinnomyssk plant in Stavropol Krai — both key producers of explosive components, munitions, and rocket fuel.
Caught on camera: Israeli fighter jet refuels mid-air over Syria; likely on way back after Iran strike -
A video circulating online showed a rare glimpse into the Israeli military’s long-range operations: an Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter jet refueling mid-airEUROPE SAYS
#PeerTube is great #tech. The main *one* thing holding me back from using it more is the lack of support for captions.
For #people with #disabilities, this is a deal breaker.
🇺🇦 The Defense Forces have regained control over Andriyivka in Sumy region, — Zelensky.
🗣️ "There are 53 thousand Russian soldiers there. The maximum depth at which the fighting is taking place is 7 km from the border. So that people also understand how far Sumy is."
Live and Leave with Love – Kaushal Kishore
The news descended, cold and grim, A hopeful flight turned dark and dim… A crash stilled both breath and soul, And then left behind a gaping hole… When I closed my eyes, there I saw, That fate could strike without a flaw… It could’ve been anyone, you or me, As we move through life so endlessly… We chase our work, chase our dreams,
#MiddleEastWar #WarInUkraine
#InternationalRelations #Israel
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The #Netanyahu Regime's waging a hazardous multifront war has proven desastrous for its enemies so far. Attacking #Iran's increasingly "too enriched" #nuclear capabilities might be a worthwhile target yet, if successful.
Remotely executing its Revolutionary leaders is, in my view, apart from a declaration of war, yet again clearly in breech of #InternationalLaw.
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Iranian regime may struggle to recover, but could decide to push for bomb, experts say - EUROPE SAYS
Israel’s military strikes on Iran have struck at the heart of the country’s military leadership and nuclear program, creating a possible vacuum at the top ofEUROPE SAYS
Das wird der Herr Euch nicht vergeben!
Kate Middleton reappears in public with a gesture that will move Prince William - EUROPE SAYS
Kate Middleton has reappeared in public during the celebration of Trooping the Colour and has done so with a deeply emotional gesture. The Princess of WalesEUROPE SAYS
fish levels are 26% and rising
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Impermanence – Silent Songs of Sonsnow
Source: Impermanence – Silent Songs of Sonsnow
'No One Ever Seems to Be Good Enough' - EUROPE SAYS
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have dismissed key members of their communications team following a string of public image setbacks, raising fresh concernsEUROPE SAYS
Trooping the Colour live updates: Royal family marks the King's official birthday - EUROPE SAYS
The Prince of Wales, Colonel, Welsh Guards, is wearing the Full Ceremonial Guard Order of the Welsh Guards. HRH is also wearing the Most Noble Order of theEUROPE SAYS
Princess Eugenie's Unexpected Alliance With Prince William - EUROPE SAYS
Princess Eugenie's future within the Royal Family is currently unclear, with many experts wondering whether Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's daughter willEUROPE SAYS
Songs I Like (178) | beetleypete
...Who would have thought that a white guy with a big nose who came from central England could sound like a 1970s American Soul music singer? Still only 40 years old, he is continuing to perform and write songs. His latest album was released this year. The lyrics are on the video in the UK, but I posted them anyway. Source: Songs I Like (178) | beetleypete
#KirkTalley
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Look Up High
The Trinity Trio Sings Southern Gospel: Kirk Talley, "Look Up High"; to find more from The Trinity Trio, search for their profile on YouTubeYouTube
Simon Brooke
in reply to Simon Brooke • • •So here's some highlights.
On Money
"Money is, then, a necrotising parasite on social relationships, systematically sucking out transactions of kindness and generosity from the economy and replacing them with a winner-takes-all, zero sum game of competitive meanness.
Money is a disease."
#GiftEconomy
#Anarchism
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On Money
Simon Brooke (The Fool on the Hill)Simon Brooke
in reply to Simon Brooke • • •Manifesto for a Good Society
"who, precisely, is 'the commune'? Well, exactly the same people as 'the natural, informal society,' of course. What a person is doing when asking 'the commune' for help is not applying to a higher authority, but saying, formally, to the people among whom they live, 'hey! I have needs that aren't being met. Can we fix this, please?'"
#Anarchism
#Communism
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Manifesto for a good society
Simon Brooke (The Fool on the Hill)