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Indicator: “In July’s episode of Show & Tell, Hal Triedman showed us how easy it can be to poison an AI research agent. Hal is a privacy and security researcher at Cornell Tech and former senior privacy engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. He walked us through a recent research project he ran with colleagues Tingwei …
Wired: “A government report claims DOGE didn’t access sensitive systems. It also says the agency deleted records that would show if they had. On April 14, 2025, a federal IT staffer filed a whistleblower complaint with Congress alleging that members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had accessed and possibly exfiltrated sensitive information …
Stillwell, Hayley and Harrington, Sean, Predicting the Court: Evaluating Large Language Models as Forecasters of Supreme Court Decisions (July 10, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7096518 Large language models are increasingly used by lawyers to analyze legal materials and forecast litigation outcomes. This Article evaluates four leading large language models-GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, …
404 Media no paywall: “Fiction written by artificial intelligence is easy to detect because it struggles with complex story structure and tends to moralize in clunky ways, according to a preprint study from researchers at University of Maryland, College Park and Google DeepMind. They found that AI fiction has tells that go beyond stereotypical overuse …
Dialed.gg is a simple browser game that shows you a color, hides it, asks you to recreate it from memory, and scores you on how well you did. [Another example of the natural divergence in learning, interpreting and recalling information.] [Camel, rhinoceros, rabbit…but what colors are they? Perfect score?]
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This map shows three dimensions of the global arms landscape for 167 countries, across six five-year periods from 1996 to 2024. Military Spending % GDP — each country’s defence budget as a share of its economy, sourced from the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database. Arms Imports — the average annual value of major arms imported, in …
A visual search engine, with Wiki Spy you search metadata associated with things, people, objects, colors, food…a long list of things. Combine your requirements in a search, obtain a result that may be further narrowed or expanded along with examples of the items along with associated or related things…..click on any and you can read …
Abi Awomosu “The surveillance is real. It’s real. The infrastructure runs deeper than any single app — it runs at the device layer, and you consented to that somewhere in a forty-seven-page document written in a font size designed not to be read. Voice assistant software has documented microphone access that extends beyond active use. …
Daniel Stanica: “I tracked 100 once-successful blogs over four years to understand what happened after Google’s Helpful Content Updates and the rise of AI Overviews. The results were striking: the median blog lost 85% of its organic traffic, while only 21 continued to grow. This study reveals the patterns behind the winners, the losers, and …
whistelOut: 92% of Americans are worried about their personal data being hijacked or spied on, but many won’t take basic steps to protect themselves. “Americans’ personal data has never been more at risk. While you keep ever-increasing amounts of your life online, scammers are leveraging weak passwords, AI tricks, and data breaches to find new …
Platformer – The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet – 200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? “We Must Act Now,” a statement signed by more than 200 economists, AI researchers, and Nobel laureates. Other signers included executives from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. The statement …