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The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants

Source
MIT Technology Review - All
Source link
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1140936/the-download-tricking-llms-reviving-geothermal/
Published
2026-07-30 12:10:00
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-07-31 07:49:41
Category
Procurement Technology & AI
Geography
Global
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack  It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a…

Procurement Relevance Gate

FAIL — score 7.0/100 — evaluated 2026-07-31 08:55:19
Only geographic exposure matched — no substantive content indicator, so this cannot pass alone.
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

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