5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
Wired: “The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.”
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National Park Service Maintenance Backlog Now Totals Over $35 Billion
Wes Siler’s Newsletter – “Testifying in front of the House of Representatives on Monday, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum revealed that the maintenance backlog in national parks now totals over $35 billion. This is the first time we’ve gotten an estimate on the increase to the backlog caused by the Trump administration’s first year …
Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says
Ars Technica: “Newly unsealed emails reveal the sneaky ways that Amazon colludes with rivals to raise prices across the Internet on “everything from diapers to clothing to furniture,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged in a press release Monday. “Amazon and a competitor will knowingly stop price matching each other, so that one retailer can increase …
Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users
Bloomberg (Gift Article): “A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC’s new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with the matter and documentation viewed by Bloomberg News. A handful of users in a private online forum gained …
Plants can sense the sound of rain, new study finds
PHYS.org: “The next time you find yourself lulled by the patter of rain outside your window, think how that same sprinkle might sound if you were a tiny seed planted directly below a free-falling droplet. Would you still be similarly soothed? In fact, MIT engineers have found the opposite to be the case: Some seeds …
Nothing speaks.
The Verge: “Nothing has launched Essential Voice, a dictation tool that tidies speech in more than 100 languages and sounds similar to a product Google launched earlier this month. It supports shortcuts for repeated words and phrases and speech-to-text translation. It’s currently only available for Phone (3) and Phone (4a) Pro, but Nothing hopes it’s …
Spoofed Tankers Are Flooding the Strait of Hormuz. These Analysts Are Tracking Them
Wired – no paywall: “Marine insurers and oil traders want to know what’s going on in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As the volume of disappearing ships in the area increases, analysts are getting creative…Tracking disappearing ships makes use of several technologies, some of them newer than others. Samir Madani, the cofounder of …
The Aides Keeping the President in the Dark
The Atlantic Gift Article: “Donald Trump’s advisers are treating him like he can’t handle the reality of the war in Iran. They might be right—but that fact is a danger to the constitutional order…Earlier this month, top officials in the Trump administration were facing two problems—one distant and acute, one near and chronic. The first …
The New Tactics of TikTok Journalism
Miissouri School of Journalism: “Learn how to create successful, platform-specific content. TikTok has exploded as a source of news for young people, and its rise offers key insights for news organizations looking to adapt to changing audience habits. New research from Kaia Tran, MA ’25, highlights how to create news content that resonates with TikTok …
How we OCR’ed 30,000 papers using Codex, open OCR models and Jobs
Huggin Face: “On the hub, we index arXiv papers any time someone mentions an arXiv abstract or PDF link in the README of a model, dataset or Space. Besides, any researcher can submit their work to Daily Papers at https://hf.co/papers/submit, up to 14 days after the publication date on arXiv. Daily Papers view. This enables …
Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy
Arkeonews: “Archaeologists working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt’s Minya Governorate have uncovered a Roman-era burial that combines rare funerary objects with an unexpected literary find: a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad concealed inside a mummy. A Spanish-Egyptian excavation team working at the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus (modern-day El-Bahnasa) has uncovered a Roman-era …
The Air Quality Index and how to use it, explained
Vox – no paywall: “It’s not enough to trust the senses to know when it’s a bad air day. Well before you can see or smell smoke, it can start wreaking havoc on the lungs. That haze you can see and smell on a particularly polluted day is made of ozone and fine particulate matter. …
