The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why DeepSeek was able to create a large language model that outpaces OpenAI’s while spending orders of magnitude less money and using older chips is that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data…

Federal Reserve officials decided on Wednesday to hold interest rates steady as uncertainty over Donald Trump’s impact on the US economy looms and inflation remains above the central bank’s target levels. This is the first time Fed policymakers have met since the president, who has made clear he…

Jobless claims applications ticked up modestly last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in more than three years. Applications for jobless benefits rose by 6,000 to 223,000 for the week ending January 18, the Labor Department said…

Blog Origins In the last year or two, I have increasingly used the term “CVE farming” in conversations and LinkedIn posts [1]. This has led a few people to ask what it meant and I gave a very cliff notes version of the answer. I started taking notes for this blog a while back expecting for the…

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January 23, 2025 So why is the grave threat of nuclear war virtually absent from our politics? Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email The Doomsday Clock set to 90 seconds to midnight at the National Press Club, in Washington, DC, Tuesday, January 24, 2023. (Patrick Semansky / AP Photo)…

More electricity was made from sunshine than coal in the EU last year, a report has found, in what analysts called a “milestone” for the clean energy transition. Solar panels generated 11% of the EU’s electricity in 2024, while coal-burning power plants generated 10%, according to data from climate…

TL;DR: We’re launching Opengrep, a fork of SemgrepCS, in response to its open-source clampdown. Last month, Semgrep announced major changes to its OSS project—strategically timed for a Friday, of course ;) Since 2017, Semgrep has been a cornerstone of the open-source security community, offering a…

A new study shows Millennials are the first [+][-] generation that AI will replace as it puts 38% of Millennial jobs at risk. getty As AI automates more jobs, experts predict that it will replace full-time careers in 2025. Susan Lindeque, CEO of Avestix Group, predicts AI could soon upset the entire…

This wellbeing myth is almost true, says Dr Caroline Apovian, director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston University Medical Centre. “Stress can lead to weight gain,” she says, “but it’s not that stress itself, by any metabolic reason, causes weight gain.” Rather, the…

Dailydave mailing list archives By Date By Thread (the root of the root and the bud of the bud) From: Dave Aitel via Dailydave Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:22:11 -0500 Memories and thoughts are the same thing, someone tried to explain to me recently. You have to think to remember, in other words. This…

Last week, as the Sunset fire was bearing down on her Los Angeles home, Allison Agsten approached a group of television news crews gathering in her neighborhood. Did any of them plan to mention the role of the climate crisis in their reporting? The question was professional as well as personal for…

Fortinet Confirms Exploitation Of ‘Critical’ Vulnerability In FortiOS, FortiProxy HOME ▸ news ▸ security ▸ 2025 ▸ Fortinet Confirms Exploitation Of ‘Critical’ Vulnerability In FortiOS, FortiProxy SecurityJanuary 14, 2025, 1:06 PM EST The confirmation comes after Arctic Wolf researchers said that…

Wildfires that blazed around the world in 2024 helped to drive a record annual leap in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, surprising scientists. The data shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather. The CO2 level at the Mauna Loa observatory in…

The bird flu crisis continues to evolve, and it feels like we’re now getting slightly more urgent updates from the media. There’s several reasons for this shift, one being that we’ve crossed a threshold where official agencies like the CDC can no longer deny we’re facing a serious problem. In many…

Chicago has become a hub for cryptocurrency ATMs used to launder drug proceeds and route money to sophisticated scam artists, according to experts and officials. Bitcoin, the most valuable and well-known crypto asset, got widespread attention more than a decade ago as a tool to buy drugs on…

The yen is low, and everybody is coming to Tokyo. If that sounds familiar, it’s not because I’m being coy or hedging my bets; it is the only information to be found in most English-language coverage of Japan’s capital in the aftermath of the pandemic. I can’t stop reading these accounts. After nine…

Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Monday has the world economy on tenterhooks. Could the 47th US president govern broadly as he did last time, when his most extreme threats were ultimately softened? Or is this time different? UK economy could be especially at risk from Trump’s tariff war,…

North Hampton Dr. Mark R. Windt has treated patients with long haul COVID, teaching them how to breathe again. Provided by Roxane Barnes Since last fall, about 4,000 people have left the Granite State workforce for good due to ongoing symptoms of long COVID, according to a new study from the New…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Baby boomers, they're just like us. Or, rather, we're just like them. And by "we," I mean millennials. The inevitable march of time often means turning into your parents,…

Microsoft’s AI red team is excited to share our whitepaper, “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” The AI red team was formed in 2018 to address the growing landscape of AI safety and security risks. Since then, we have expanded the scope and scale of our work significantly. We are…

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Photo by Anna Barclay/Getty Images For over a decade, you couldn’t easily fly a DJI drone over restricted areas in the United States. DJI’s software would automatically stop you from flying over runways, power plants, public emergencies like wildfires, and the White House. But confusingly, amidst…

Apple iPhone 16 models on display on September 20, 2024 at the Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images/File New York CNN — Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent…

CHICAGO – Jan. 7, 2025 – COVID-19 vaccinations have protected people from severe complications, hospitalizations and death, but their impact on long COVID has been unknown. According to new research published in Brain Communications, Northwestern Medicine researchers found that vaccination prior to…

In 2020, after walking by refrigerated trailers full of the bodies of people who died during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic one too many times, my fiancé and I decided that it would maybe be a good idea to get out of New York City for a while. Together with our dog, we spent months driving…

Paper: read the full paper here. Transcripts: We provide a list of cherry-picked transcripts here. System card: We worked with OpenAI to test o1 before public deployment. You can find the results in the o1 system card. Below, we provide a summary of the main findings. We evaluated six frontier…

Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Google Project Zero IntroductionAt Project Zero, we constantly seek to expand the scope and effectiveness of our vulnerability research. Though much of our work still relies on traditional methods like manual source code audits and reverse engineering, we're…

31st December 2024 A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments. This is a sequel to my review of 2023. In this…

Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there’s little real-world data left to train AI models on. “We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a livestreamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday.…

Getty Images/KTSDESIGN (wheel) Kateryna Kon (particle). Mashup: Inside Medicine. Everyone has the same question: Are we about to have another pandemic? With all the H5N1 circulating in animals in the US, the chances of one are higher than usual. Some models estimate the risk as anywhere from 5%-40%…

Table of Contents Exploring the Japanese Equivalent to Tai Chi: Unveiling the Zen Art of Movement Tai Chi, a Chinese martial art known for its slow and graceful movements, has gained popularity worldwide for its numerous health benefits. But did you know that Japan has its own equivalent to Tai Chi?…

Funding for public K-12 schools in the U.S. is based on enrollment. More students mean more money. In 31 states, public schools use the previous year’s enrollment numbers to determine the current year’s funding, which makes it easier to soften the financial blow when enrollment declines. In the rest…