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
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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
Published: Wed 13 March 2024 Updated: Wed 13 March 2024 By tags: cybersecurity career There has been a lot of hype for a while now about cybersecurity careers. Cybersecurity careers are hot, they say.
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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
This image comes from a book by Martin Honeysett called ‘Microphobia’, published in 1982. It’s full of great jokes and I could have used almost any of them, because they’re all making the same point -
Paul Graham wrote a 12,000-word mega essay on how to do great work but the essence of it is a small paragraph near the end: Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more th
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
It has been about a year and a half of working three days a week in response to burnout. It took me six months to regain the ability to do anything beyond resting the moment I was done working, and in
interview We know Google search results are being hammered 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. It
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 coordinato
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Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised. Peopleima
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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
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 take in any of it, did it? I thou
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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Ever since my early teens, I knew I wasn’t cut out for formal learning. When a topic excited me, I set my own pace and stayed well ahead of the class; this frustrated my teachers more than it impresse
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
I think I have a problem. I’m addicted to building bug bounty automation. I’ve built a full bug bounty automation framework from the ground up 3 times now. It has become better every time, but I’m sti
Rose Gardner did everything right. Straight As at school and college, a first-class degree from a top university, a master’s. She got a job in publishing and rose through the ranks of some of the indu
Nicholas LoVecchio told me he knew something was wrong as soon as he received the peer-review responses to his paper about “taboo” language titled “Using translation to chart the early spread of GAY t