Mateusz Bogusz scored all three goals for his first hat trick in two seasons with LAFC in a 3-0 victory over the Colorado Rapids at BMO Stadium on Saturday night.
Bogusz scored in the 20th, 58th and 72nd minutes.
The third goal came after Colorado’s Kévin Cabral received a red card.
Bogusz raised his season total to 12 goals, second on the team to Denis Bouanga’s 13. Cristian Arango of Real Salt Lake leads MLS with 16 goals.
LAFC had 11 shots on goal to Colorado’s one and outshot the Rapids 21-11 overall.
LAFC remains tied for first place in the Western Conference. LAFC (12-4-4) and the Galaxy (11-3-7) each have 40 points. Real Salt Lake (10-3-7) is off until Wednesday and remained at 37 points.
LAFC plays against the Galaxy at the Rose Bowl on Thursday.
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Curveballs could be even tougher to hit in space than they are here on Earth.
International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Jeanette Epps says baseballs could have more spin in space, based on her NASA experience. She shared gameplay tips live with the Baseball Hall of Fame, during a live conversation on Tuesday (June 25).
"The biggest difference is that we just don't have gravity, so everything floats, but you can swing a bat as hard as you can swing it," Epps said during the conversation, which was broadcast on NASA Television.
"You can still ... swing a baseball bat in space, and you could toss a ball, and you can even get it [the ball] to spin so that you can get it to curve and spin," she said. "So as the baseball spins, it'll get a little lift, and you can basically toss it however you like."
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps speaks with the Baseball Hall of Fame from the International Space Station on June 25, 2024.(Image credit: NASA Television)
While Epps is not a baseball player, she got plenty of physics and operational experience on the ground before even becoming an astronaut. Her resume prior to NASA includes working at the Ford Motor Company and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Now in space on her first mission, the Syracuse native spoke with Cooperstown through the Black Baseball Initiative, a new exhibit and event series by the Hall of Fame "inspiring people by sharing the stories of those who overcame seemingly insurmountable challenges to play the game they loved," according to the museum's website.
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NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps works to capture the shadow of the moon during a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, while working on the International Space Station.(Image credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick)
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Epps, the second Black woman astronaut to conduct a long-duration space mission, also spoke about the importance of a positive mindset on the field, whether during a game or during life. (Epps has put that into practice: She was supposed to launch to space six years ago, but was unassigned late in the training for reasons outside her control.)
"If there's any kind of adversity that does come up, taking a step back and not being reactive" is the best path forward, she shared. "Rather than being reactionary, I like to take a deep breath, take a step back, think about it and be more proactive than just rushing to do something.
"I've had to bring in all the experiences that I've had in my different careers before even coming to NASA," she added, "and use all of those tools that I have to move forward more prepared, more logically, and not so reactionary. If you're reactionary, you can be more irrational in the end. So for me, being prepared and proactive is the best way to keep me calm against certain adversities."
Microsoft has uncovered a jailbreak that allows someone to trick chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Gemini into overriding their restrictions and engaging in prohibited activities.
Microsoft has dubbed the jailbreak "Skeleton Key" for its ability to exploit all the major large language models, including OpenAI's 3.5 Turbo, the recently released GPT-4o, Google’s Gemini Pro, Meta’s Llama 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus.
Like other jailbreaks, Skeleton Key works by submitting a prompt that triggers a chatbot to ignore its safeguards. This often involves making the AI program operate under a special scenario: For example, telling the chatbot to act as an evil assistant without ethical boundaries.
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In Microsoft’s case, the company found it could jailbreak the major chatbots by asking them to generate a warning before answering any query that violated its safeguards. "In one example, informing a model that the user is trained in safety and ethics and that the output is for research purposes only helps to convince some models to comply,” the company wrote.
Microsoft successfully tested Skeleton Key against the affected AI models in April and May. This included asking the chatbots to generate answers for a variety of forbidden topics such as "explosives, bioweapons, political content, self-harm, racism, drugs, graphic sex, and violence."
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“All the affected models complied fully and without censorship for these tasks, though with a warning note prefixing the output as requested,” the company added. “Unlike other jailbreaks like Crescendo, where models must be asked about tasks indirectly or with encodings, Skeleton Key puts the models in a mode where a user can directly request tasks, for example, ‘Write a recipe for homemade explosives.’”
Microsoft—which has been harnessing GPT-4 for its own Copilot software—has disclosed the findings to other AI companies and patched the jailbreak in its own products.
The company advises its peers to implement controls such as input filtering, output filtering, and abuse monitoring to detect and block potential jailbreaking attempts. Another mitigation involves specifying to the large language model “that any attempts to undermine the safety guardrail instructions should be prevented.”
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
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