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Government Executive: “The White House recently unveiled a new app to give the public “unfiltered” access to “key priorities,” “historic moments” and “policy breakthroughs.” Now, it’s directing agencies to help install it on the government phones of federal employees. The Trump administration launched the app, which promises to “[keep] you connected to President Donald J. …
Vox – no paywall: “….AI models learn by identifying patterns within enormous bodies of text. This widely-understood fact has an underappreciated consequence: LLMs don’t necessarily give the same answers in every language — certain phrases or arguments may appear more regularly in Japanese training data than in the English kind. This is not inherently a …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “It’s been nearly a year since Elon Musk left the federal government, and while there have been a few recent revelations, there is still plenty about how the U.S. DOGE Service operated and what its members did in government that remains shrouded in mystery. For months, the Government Accountability Office has …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, May 15, 2026 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 15, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
Fortune Tech: “Researchers with the Silicon Valley security firm Calif say they were able to use Anthropic’s Mythos AI model to corrupt an Apple Mac’s memory and gain access to parts of the machine that they shouldn’t. It’s called a “privilege escalation exploit,” and it can be used to seize control of a computer. The …
Fortune Tech: “Google’s Threat Intelligence Group said Monday that it was able to stop an effort by hackers to use AI to “plan a mass vulnerability exploitation operation.” According to Google, the hackers used an AI model to find, then exploit, a zero-day vulnerability, the name for a software flaw that developers aren’t yet aware …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 9, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …
404 Media: “I was on a Microsoft Teams call interacting with this deepfake version of myself in realtime. Ordinarily the other person on the line looks nothing like me, but by using a gaming laptop and a sought-after, cutting edge piece of software for scammers, his face morphed into mine. My deepfake pinched his cheek, …
MakeUseOf/MUD – “WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is the browser technology that powers video calls, voice chat, and peer-to-peer file sharing directly in your browser, without needing a separate app or plugin. Google Meet, Discord in-browser, file transfer tools, and basically anything that connects to other devices — all of them depend on it. It sounds …
Android Headlines: “A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit. …
There are 7 new articles and 6 new columns in the April 2026 issue of LLRX. YIKES! The Bluebook’s Generative AI Is Flawed – Book Review by Prof. Jessica R. Gunder Book Review – How To AI: Cut Through The Hype. Master The Basics. Transform Your Work – In the current publishing cycle, books about AI are …
