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Analysis Google has indexed inaccurate infrastructure-as-code samples produced by Pulumi AI – a developer that uses an AI chatbot to generate infrastructure – and the rotten recipes are already appear

Watch 3 days ago Features correspondent Ben Wallis (Credit: Ben Wallis) Bird flu is decimating wildlife around the world and is now spreading in cows. In the handful of human cases seen so far it has

3 min read·1 hour ago I’m drawn to concepts or book titles that appear contradictory. So, naturally, “Slow Productivity” by Cal Newport appealed to me at a basic level. I work in cybersecurity as a se

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Dairy cows being moved across states must be tested for the bird flu, under a federal order issued on Wednesday aimed at containing the spread of the virus across US cattle farms. The clampdown comes

Ukraine’s foreign minister has enthusiastically praised US politicians for approving a long-delayed $61bn military aid package for Ukraine, but said western allies needed to recognise that “the era of

I see a lot of people who want to work in cybersecurity. I said the same when I got started, but now I think this is the wrong way to frame things, especially because of AI. My thinking now is that wo

The U.S. economy slowed dramatically at the outset of 2024, though it continued to grow at a solid pace. The finding, released in a Commerce Department report this week, renewed a question that has li

The Federal Communications Commission made its official vote Thursday to reinstate net neutrality, which bars broadband providers from slowing or even blocking internet traffic to some sites while imp

6 min read· Apr 7, 2024 -- TL;DR In August of 2023 I applied the “State Machine” research from James Kettle on the World ID SDK and identified a Race Condition that would have enabled an attacker to b

tl;dr Postman, the popular API testing platform, hosts the largest collection of public APIs. Unfortunately, it’s become one of the largest public sources of leaked secrets. We estimate over 4,000 liv

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Eternal sunshine of the spotless LLM Making an LLM forget is harder than it seems In a recent paper, Ronen Eldan and Mark Russinovich wrote: “We effectively erase the model's ability to generate or re

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See a longer version of this article here: Scaling ChatGPT: Five Real-World Engineering Challenges. Sometimes the best explanations of how a technology solution works come from the software engineers

interview We know Google search results are being hammered by the proliferation of AI garbage, and the web giant's attempts to curb the growth of machine-generated drivel haven't helped all that much.

Review The mechanism and various factors that link the interaction between the gut and the brain has been studied widely since the last decade, of which the most prominent mechanisms described below c

Lancet study solidifies evidence of long-term viral persistence after COVID; demonstrates urgency of sustained research into the chronic health consequences of the virus UCSF LIINC research coordinator Marin Ewing collects blood from a study participant. Medford MA, April 8, 2024 – Research…

In November, Google’s AI outfit DeepMind published a press release titled “Millions of new materials discovered with deep learning." But now, researchers who have analyzed a subset of what DeepMind di

19 April 2024 Mariko OiBusiness reporter Getty Images When it comes to food, the Japanese take attention to detail very seriously A shrinking population means Japan has a shortage of workers. Many are

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Cybersecurity professionals are increasingly prepared to moonlight as cybercriminals in a bid to top up their salaries, according to new research from the Chartered Institute of Information Security (

Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Ut

Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action to halt environmental destruction, international experts have warned. As technology deve

The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, cautioned on Tuesday that persistently elevated inflation will probably delay any Fed interest rate cuts until later this year, opening the door to a period o

Artificial intelligence tools can replace much of Wall Street’s entry-level white-collar work, raising tough questions about the future of finance. Credit...Calum Heath By Rob Copeland spoke to execut

April 14, 2024 I’ve been thinking about art and punishment. That is, how we punish people for making art. There’s the more nuanced form, where we project our own insecurities onto a work. It’s not que

The conventional wisdom, well captured recently by Ethan Mollick, is that LLMs are advancing exponentially. A few days ago, in a popular blog post, Mollick claimed that “the current best estimates of

20 March 2023 – Baldur Bjarnason It’s like the past few years’ discussions on bias in training data and issues with shortcut learning in AI models just didn’t happen at all? Like, our industry didn’t

For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses. One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed

Ever since I was a kid I was never good at doing schoolwork. I had envied everyone that seemed to complete things so effortlessly and even took pleasure in the work that they were doing. I'd decided t

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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2404.03502 (cs) [Submitted on 4 Apr 2024] Authors: View a PDF of the paper titled AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse, by Andrew J. Peterson View