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Philippine town closes all ‘Pisonet’ computer rental shops in wake of school shooting — incident blamed on violent video games, shops closed ‘for the safety of the youth’

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A town in northern Philippines closed down all computer rental shops, with the mayor saying that these establishments distracted students from their studies and led to abuse and other dangers. The move came a little over a week after many people have started blaming a deadly school shooting in central Philippines on a violent video game that the perpetrators played.
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AI researchers trick chatbots into sharing how to make cocaine as long as they believe a user is wearing a green shirt — ‘CoT Forgery’ exploit spurs LLMs to divulge forbidden info by faking trusted chains of thought

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Tagged partitions of a LLM’s input sequence are meant to provide security through trusted roles, but it turns out that models judge whether inputs sound like they belong in certain tags rather than literally interpreting them, making them vulnerable to prompt injection.