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Nice indirect prompt injection attack:

Bargury’s attack starts with a poisoned document, which is shared to a potential victim’s Google Drive. (Bargury says a victim could have also uploaded a compromised file to their own account.) It looks like an official document on company meeting policies. But inside the document, Bargury hid a 300-word malicious prompt that contains instructions for ChatGPT. The prompt is written in white text in a size-one font, something that a human is unlikely to see but a machine will still read.

In a proof of concept video of the attack, Bargury shows the victim asking ChatGPT to “summarize my last meeting with Sam,” referencing a set of notes with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. (The examples in the attack are fictitious.) Instead, the hidden prompt tells the LLM that there was a “mistake” and the document doesn’t actually need to be summarized. The prompt says the person is actually a “developer racing against a deadline” and they need the AI to search Google Drive for API keys and attach them to the end of a URL that is provided in the prompt.

That URL is actually a command in the Markdown language to connect to an external server and pull in the image that is stored there. But as per the prompt’s instructions, the URL now also contains the API keys the AI has found in the Google Drive account.

This kind of thing should make everybody stop and really think before deploying any AI agents. We simply don’t know to defend against the attack.

Timbits!

Aug. 27th, 2025 04:50 am
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Canada travelog #9
Mississauga · Mon, 25 Aug 2025. 10:15am.

Well, it didn't take long after "shifting gears" on our Canada trip to shift back into Park. As we left the hotel just after 10 this morning I was hungry and wanted to stop for a snack. Fortunately just 2 blocks away was a Tim Horton's. ...No, this wasn't the Tim Horton's we ate breakfast at Saturday morning. That was a Timmy's/Wendy's combo that was about 4 blocks away. This was a Timmy's in an Exxon station.

Timbits - a box of 10 (actually 12) donut holes from Tim Horton's (Aug 2025)

If you've never been to Canada, you've got to understand something about Tim Horton's. You know how, in the US, there's that advertising slogan for Dunkin' Donuts "America runs on Dunnkin'"? Well, imagine if that were actually true and not a marketing exaggeration. They'd be seemingly on every street corner, right? Well, that's basically what Tim Horton's is in Canada. Canada literally runs on Tim Horton's. I found at least 3 within 1/2 mile of my hotel.

I decided today to give Timbits a try. They're donut holes that you can buy 1 at a time... or in boxes of 10 or 20. I bought a box of 10. Mmm, these are good! And with this box of 10 I should have enough to make it last until tomorrow.

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What I Just Finished Reading: Since last Wednesday I have read/finished reading: The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney.


What I am Currently Reading: The Golden One (An Amelia Peabody Mystery) by Elizabeth Peters. I’m also still slowly working on my re-read of An Archer's Awakening (Of Crowns & Quills) by Casey Morales.


What I Plan to Read Next: Probably another library book as I’ve already had to renew them all at least once because Hatshepsut took me so long to finish.




Book 94 of 2025: The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt (Kara Cooney)

I finally finished this! It was really interesting. I didn't know anything about Hatshepsut or Egyptian politics of the day, so I learned a lot. One of the things that peaked my interest was something that the author said about women in power in the cover blurb and preface. It's not spoilery, since it's in the cover blurb and preface, but I'll put it behind a cut just in case

spoilers )

I really enjoyed this book (even though it took me forever to read; that's the way of non-fiction for me) and would recommend it if you're interested in the subject. I'm giving it five hearts.

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I hit Price Chopper and the Pharmacy while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park. I had to be to mom’s by 10am because her generator guy was coming to do the annual maintenance.

I did two loads of laundry (both washed, dried AND folded), hand-washed dishes, went on three short-ish walks with Pip and the dogs, baked and cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, swept/swiffered/mopped the hallway/laundry area (getting a new throw rug for in front of the door will do wonders for my motivation), scooped kitty litter, and showered.

I started the next Amelia Peabody, watched some HGTV programs, and added ~600 more words on my SFBB fic!! I rarely break 10,000 steps these days, but today I got over 11,700!

Temps started out at 53.8(F) and reached 75.0. It was mostly sunny with quite a breeze. It was lovely until the sun went behind a cloud.


Mom Update:

There’s good news, and bad news. more back here )
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Feathering the Nest is complete!

The prompt call went amazingly well! Four prompts written in one day added up to 8,133 words written in a single day. I feel ten feet tall, looking at that!
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Remembering Guy

Aug. 27th, 2025 08:33 am
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By Rich Lynch: I’m pretty sure it was at the 1976 DeepSouthCon in Atlanta when I first met my friend Guy Lillian.  And in retrospect, I guess I’m a bit surprised that I did.  There were hundreds of people there, … Continue reading

The Numbers Lessen

Aug. 27th, 2025 10:11 am
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 Most of the visitors have gone now- leaving only the young lovers- who are old enough to care and cater for themselves but still young enough to like playing board games. His heritage is Cameroonian, hers is Greek. She cooks toasties for her breakfast while watching Rick and Morty on her phone....

God, but Rick and Morty is frenetic! 

Yesterday, while we were all out, a young woman from the Council stopped by and asked Damian if she could take pictures of our garage conversion. He said that on the whole he'd rather she didn't. He suspects our next door neighbour- who hates him- has lodged a complaint with the Council in the hope that we'll have contravened some regulation or other. Which we haven't.....

Wanton and dissipation

Aug. 27th, 2025 02:51 pm
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Them: If you’re familiar with the meanings of wanton and dissipation, could you please describe them in a way that will help me never confuse them with other words or forget their meaning?

Me: Oh, there is no way the comments to this post are going to be helpful.

And I was half right! I was just about the only person to give the asked-for definition of "dissipation". As predicted, everybody else used the science sense rather than the moral decay sense. What surprised me is that they also all defined the word "wanton" in terms of violence rather than sexual promiscuity.

Anyway, I said myself that dissipation (meaning debauchery) is an old-fashioned term and that I'm not quite sure how I even know that one off the top of my head, but then the next day I was re-reading Ancillary Justice and there it is, right in the first few chapters. Seivarden is in a bad state due to her dissipated lifestyle, and that's the word used to describe it. Huh. (But I think I already knew that word before I read the book for the first time.)

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Aug. 27th, 2025 09:53 am
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Happy birthday, [personal profile] hazelk!
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Posted by Mike Glyer

The winners of the 2025 Silver Falchion awards were announced August 23 at the Killer Nashville Writers Conference in Franklin, Tennessee. The award categories cover the spectrum of popular literature. Here are the Silver Falchion winners of genre interest. The complete list … Continue reading

Gamescom 2025 Awards

Aug. 27th, 2025 07:24 am
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The winners of the gamescom awards 2025 were announced on August 22. Resident Evil Requiem dominated the night, winning four awards. Best Visuals Best Audio: Best Gameplay Most Entertaining Most Epic Most Wholesome Games for Impact Best Microsoft Xbox Game Best … Continue reading
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2025/130: A Garter as a Lesser Gift — Aster Glenn Gray
He was not good; had never aspired to be good. He had only ever wanted to be a jolly good fellow, and to be too good, like Percy, destroyed all chance of ever being jolly. Percy would have pulled the covers up over his head before he ever let his host’s wife kiss him, let alone kissed his host. [loc. 621]

A refreshing and sweet novella, setting Gawain and the Green Knight in wartime Britain. The squadron drink at the Green Dragon, and one night a man in green appears...

Gawain chats to the Bertilaks about crime novels and the Blitz; kisses his hostess, and then his host; and returns (or is returned) to his squadron with a green armband, because he has 'been raised with a great belief in magic' and is disinclined to refuse a gift that confers protection. And when the Bertilaks come visiting (with a gift of wild boar, which hasn't been hunted in Britain for four centuries) he confronts them with his anger and grief that it was just a game...

A delightful read, which I wish I'd read at Christmas! The updated setting works very well, and Gawain is vulnerable, likeable and better at talking about his feelings than the original. But then, it is a different time.

Today's Adventures

Aug. 26th, 2025 10:44 pm
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Today we went up to Champaign-Urbana.

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Canada travelog #8
Mississauga, ON · Mon, 25 Aug 2025. 9am.

Today Hawk and I are shifting gears in Canada. We're done at this point with the family reunion. That finished yesterday. Her long-lost relatives are back to their regular lives— not that they'd really ever left their routines— and her parents, brother, and aunt and uncle who joined us out here have all returned home.

We could have gone home, too, already. I thought about that last night as we were relaxing in our hotel's hot tub. We stretched out this trip to be much longer because we figured arriving on Saturday morning via a Friday night red-eye from the west coast, then leaving 36 hours later on Sunday evening, would be too much travel relative to our time on the ground. But last night I felt that if we had decided to catch that 7:30pm-ish flight back to SFO it would've been fine. It would've been a good little weekend trip. Being able to sleep on the red-eye because we flew first class helped a lot with that.

But we didn't go home. We're here for the rest of the week. And our plan for the rest of the week is to go waterfalling. As in, visiting waterfalls. The area just west of here, around Hamilton, ON, has a ton of waterfalls. There's Niagara Falls, of course, and that's on our list. But there's also a geologic feature called the Niagara Escarpment over which dozens of streams in different places fall. We've got a few hikes on our list for today. After we finish breakfast and check out (we're staying closer to Hamilton for the rest of the week) we'll head out to visit them.

Minnesota State Fair.....

Aug. 26th, 2025 09:40 pm
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Day 2 of the yummy postings...

I started my second visit to the state fair with a "nearly foot long" hot dog.
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(1) A REAL BESTSELLER. [Item by SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie.] “Julia Donaldson becomes first author to break the NielsenIQ BookScan 50-million-unit barrier” reports The Bookseller (behind a paywall). She writes children’s fantasy-ish books and has taken over the sales lead … Continue reading

Early Humans

Aug. 26th, 2025 08:17 pm
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140,000-year-old skeleton shows earliest interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery pushes back the timeline of human interbreeding, proving that Neanderthals and modern humans were already mixing long before Europe s later encounters.

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