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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai’s Biography

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai is a reporter at Mashable's New York headquarters, where he covers cybersecurity, tech policy, privacy and surveillance, hackers, drones, and, more in general, the intersection of technology and civil liberties.

Before Mashable, Lorenzo was an intern at Wired.com, where he wrote for Danger Room, and Threat Level.

A recent graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism Lorenzo is also a Law graduate at University of Barcelona. Lorenzo is also interested in a…

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Did the FBI Lean On Microsoft for Access to Its Encryption Software?

Did the FBI Lean On Microsoft for Access to Its Encryption Software?

The NSA is reportedly not the only government agency asking tech companies for help in cracking technology to…

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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

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In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an LLM went rogue and autonomously hacked a third party. Since then, that unprecedented sci-fi-esque event turned out to be far less rare than anyone would hope for.
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Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

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