jailbreak
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"However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
“We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people,” Anthropic said in its website post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
“We suspect that perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible for any model provider,” that blog post noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026
His problem: Once someone makes a successful jailbreak, all the other prisoners know a jailbreak is possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Whenever we get a jailbreak, Paul, aka Thing Three, streaks around the gym with both arms up yelling “Blue Team! It’s what’s for breakfast!”
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
We have only one path forward: build a more capable American open-weight alternative that withstands attempted jailbreaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
It’s whether, at the checkout aisle in Walmart, there’s a hang rack with a little 99-cent device that jailbreaks your iPhone and installs another app store.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025
Over 5,000 inmates have escaped in jailbreaks in Nigeria since 2020.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2022
Officials confiscated house keys to prevent isolation jailbreaks, while the empty homes of those put into centralized quarantine have been turned upside down as they are doused with disinfectant.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
That may be complicated by the jailbreaks that accompanied their lightning-quick conquest of the country.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
The Army’s jailbreaking initiative means the service can now get real-time telemetry data from Abrams tanks and Stryker vehicles, said Dave Paddock, the president of General Dynamics Land Systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Prison officials could fight the jailbreaking problem at its root by expanding access to permitted communications—for example, offering free messaging or some restricted access to social media.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Some people use jailbreaking for sketchy purposes, yet others deploy it to elicit more creative answers.
From Scientific American ● May 11, 2023
It also grants jailbreaking exceptions for video streaming devices like the Apple TV and for routers and other networking hardware, as long as it’s not done to access pirated media.
From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021
As always with jailbreaking, you proceed at your own risk.
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2014
In response, some users who were trying to find ways to mask this data from the app rooted or jailbroke their phones to fake GPS sensor data—which actually put them at even greater risk.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2018
This time, Brown jailbroke Stapel’s memoir by translating it into English and posting the document on a public website.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 14, 2018
A model can’t be jailbroken into revealing dangerous knowledge if its weights haven’t encoded that knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Owning a streaming device is not illegal in the UK, even if it has been "jailbroken", where the built-in software restrictions have been removed to install unauthorised apps.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
In practice, this means confiscating jailbroken tablets through a system designed to isolate tampered devices.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Fast forward a few years, and I was a stereotypical techy teen with a jailbroken and modded iPod Touch fourth gen.
From The Verge ● May 14, 2022
This is especially true if your phone is jailbroken.
From Fox News ● Aug. 7, 2021
