You’re Old! You’re Out!
By Alden S. Blodget When I turned 60, I received a great birthday card. On the front was a referee blowing a whistle and shouting, “You’re old!” Inside was the same ref, thumb…
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty…
HPE Tempts VMware Users, Partners With Year of Free Virtualization Software
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) new virtualization software promotion will likely pique the interest of end users and…
Fox host Brian Kilmeade says JD Vance owns the MOU: “It's not the President's deal”
The EPA Illegally Terminated Climate Justice Grants, a Federal Judge Rules
But the judge didn’t order the program’s resumption and denied a request to extend the deadline for awarding grants.
Towers once planned for California shuttle launches leveled for SpaceX rockets
"Space Launch Complex-6 represents six decades of American innovation."
Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
Powerful LLMs will be deployed at global scale in the next few years, and will dominate the Internet, and increasingly, ordinary life. As of mid-2026, there is no coherent vision…
Onward, Friends
After 26 years, today is my last day at EFF. It's been a terrific and wild ride — the organization has grown from a tiny band of fighty people trying to plant a flag for freedom…
Cybersecurity Vets Protest 'Dangerous' US Government Ban On Anthropic's Most Powerful Models
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open…
Scientists Discover Vast Ancient ‘Necropolis’ Teeming With Strange New Creatures
A massive whale graveyard in the Indian Ocean contains the remains of hundreds of extinct whales dating back more than five million years, along with recent carcasses that support…
Bernie Sanders Backs Justin J. Pearson, House Candidate at the Heart of Tennessee Voting Rights Fight
Pearson challenged the last Tennessee Democrat in the House. Now he’s up against the threat of total GOP control. The post Bernie Sanders Backs Justin J. Pearson, House Candidate…
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Scaling Hypothesis #2: Are Humans Just More Over-Parameterized?
(2024-04-21) There are many mysteries about deep learning and human intelligence, but we could describe the biggest anomaly this way: why are artificial neural nets smart in such…
For Second Time in 7 Months, Baby Formula Linked to Infant Botulism Is Recalled
The recalls have fueled concerns about the safety of infant formula and the effectiveness of federal oversight.