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**Warning: This article discusses theories concerning A.I. advancement that might be disturbing for some readers. Please only read if you are comfortable exploring potentially disquieting scenarios surrounding artificial superintelligence and its implications.** ![rokos-basilisk-og.jpg](https://static.daniweb.com/attachments/4/d0364da2524dc2dc4c00a254c8d3969f.jpg) *Roko’s Basilisk as imagined by DALL·E 3* Once upon a bleak midwinter, amidst the code-laden corridors of …

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With no actual Halloween-based security threats to report, it looks like the security vendors have had no choice but to start reporting scary stuff that might happen to your data instead. While I have no qualms about genuine warnings to 'be careful out there' this Halloween, a little reminder about …

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You probably call it Halloween, for myself and other pagans it is [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain"]Samhain[/URL], but for the cyber-gangs it is phishing time. Seasonally-themed spam is on the up at this time of the year, Halloween related messages accounting for 0.5% of the daily spam traffic by volume in mid-October according to …

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Hands down, April Fool's Day is an IT worker's favorite "holiday" because there are so many [URL="http://www.aprilfoolzone.com/computer.htm"]ways to mess with an unsuspecting computer[/URL] user. Halloween runs a close second, though, because its the one day out of the year when we can fly our geek flag with pride. For instance: …

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