Workers apply labels to boxes of goods in Hagerstown, Maryland, on May 21, 2024. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images See all topics Email Link Copied! The US job market is stalling out. Job growth slowed to a crawl in August, and the unemployment rate rose to its highest level in nearly four years,…

Ebola outbreak kills 15 in DR Congo 20 hours ago Farouk ChothiaBBC News AFP via Getty Images More than 2,000 people died in an Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo in 2018-20 At least 15 people have died in a new outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's health…

Nearly one in three (31%) company employees say they are “sabotaging their company’s generative AI strategy,” according to a survey from AI vendor Writer — a number that jumps to 41% for millennial and Gen Z employees. The survey also found that “one out of ten workers say they’re tampering with…

Dane Sherrets 3 min read·3 days ago Just got back from DEF CON 33. Like every year, during a talk or panel someone will say some version of “hackers are the future” or “the world needs hackers” (this year I most clearly remember it during Hacker Jeopardy). I always nod along … because I strongly…

Audiobooks can be a convenient method of consuming a book you've always meant to. You can more easily fit in a few chapters every day throughout your daily routine and finish reading in no time. Well, finished listening, not reading. But does the brain know the difference? Scientists have found that…

Every breath people take in their homes or car probably contains significant amounts of microplastics small enough to burrow deep into lungs, new peer-reviewed research finds, bringing into focus a little understood route of exposure and health threat. The study, published in the journal Plos One,…

Google has patched a critical graphics library vulnerability in the Chrome browser, discovered by its AI-powered detection tool, Google Big Sleep. Google has released the Chrome Stable version 139.0.7258.154/.155 for Windows, macOS, and Linux, addressing a critical security vulnerability. Users are…

Russia prides itself on being an energy superpower, but some of its citizens are suddenly struggling to fill their fuel tanks after weeks of Ukrainian drone strikes crippled refining capacity across the country. Petrol stations in several regions have run dry while prices have surged to record highs…

Today we’re announcing the beta release of mcp-context-protector, a security wrapper for LLM apps using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It defends against the line jumping attacks documented earlier in this blog series, such as prompt injection via tool descriptions and ANSI terminal escape codes,…

Prompt injection pervades discussions about security for LLMs and AI agents. But there is little public information on how to write powerful, discreet, and reliable prompt injection exploits. In this post, we will design and implement a prompt injection exploit targeting GitHub’s Copilot Agent, with…

Multi-agent systems (MASs) are an increasingly popular paradigm for AI applications. As Leslie Lamport famously noted, “a distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” It turns out that a similar aphorism applies to…

Super hyped to be launching the (very early) first version of Daemon today! Since 2014 I've been obsessed with this idea of everything having an API. I first talked about it in 2016 in my (kind of crappy but with great ideas) book The Real Internet of Things. So this is the first building block:…

ArticlesOnline firstAugust 12, 2025 Krzysztof Budzyń, MD Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Academy of Silesia, Katowice, Poland Endoterapia, H-T Centrum Medyczne, Tychy, Poland , ∙ Marcin Romańczyk, MD Correspondence Correspondence to: Dr Marcin Romańczyk,…

It is a Monday afternoon in August, and I am on the internet watching a former cable-news anchor interview a dead teenager on Substack. This dead teenager—Joaquin Oliver, killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida—has been reanimated by generative AI,…

The number of Americans who read for pleasure has fallen by 40%, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London have found that between 2003 and 2023, daily reading for reasons other than work and study fell by about 3% each year. The number saw a…

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often…

The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat. Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot…

The CEO of the $100 billion fintech company, Vlad Tenev, is bringing his C-suite back into the office five days a week. Managers will have to commute just four days, and individual contributors will report three days a week to the office. While employees without direct reports have escaped stricter…

Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is "the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Garman made that remark in conversation with AI investor Matthew Berman, during which he talked up AWS’s Kiro AI-assisted coding tool and said he's encountered…

Here's a different way to think about the change coming to the workforce and economy from AI. Imagine everyone in the world has 10,000 brains, 20,000 eyes, 20,000 arms, and 20,000 legs. And they can deploy them anywhere in the world to do whatever task needs doing. In this world, we don't have…

Two types of creative barriers that limit our potentialI think there are two primary ways we limit our own creativity. Type 1: Not hearing your inner creativity What I'll call Type 1 is the inability to access your true, internal self. I discovered this concept while reading "Letters to a Young…

Everyone suddenly became an AI expert last year. The same people who couldn’t explain a neural network in 2022 had “AI thought leader” in their LinkedIn bios overnight. Ask them about attention mechanisms or backpropagation, and watch them scramble for the ChatGPT definition they memorized. Glass…

Who's not being laid off? That's my question. I'm thinking about all these layoffs and trying to figure out if there's anything we can learn about the future of tech by looking at who's getting laid off and who's not. Here's what I'm wondering: Is it mostly people with degrees they're getting rid…

Alex.Party Home About RSS Mastodon Twitch 5/5/2025Editor’s Note: previous titles for this article have been added here for posterity. The future of web development is blockchain. Get on or get left behind. The future of web development is CSS-inJS. Get on or get left behind. The future of web…

Annals of Education The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. June 30, 2025 There are no reliable figures for how many students use A.I., just stories about how everyone is doing it.Illustration…

03-24-2025 Justifying the High Salaries of Early-Career Professionals The following are anecdotes of a typical work schedule for young professionals in established, tracked professions. Following these profiles, I provide explanations for why young professionals command such high compensation,…

After an avalanche of data last week, there are more signs of a slowing economy. Real GDP rose modestly in the first half, and inflation started to drift up. The labor market was the last piece to fall in line, and it did with a bang on Friday. Job growth slowed sharply starting in May (including…

I'm starting to worry things could get very bad, very soon. Not like in a year or two, but maybe in a few months. As in spontaneous recession type of thing. In the US mostly, but perhaps globally. It sounds irrational to me as well as I think it or type it. But I can't shake the feeling, so I want…

One accusation that tends to get thrown my way often is being anti-innovation. If you’ve followed me for any amount of time, you’ve probably seen me dunking on everything from Cryptocurrency to Large Language Models. This often leads to people asking the question “why is someone so technical so…

Prompt injection, where adversaries manipulate inputs to make large language models behave in unintended ways, has long posed a threat to AI systems since the earliest days of LLM deployment. While defenders have made progress securing models against text-based attacks, the shift to multimodal and…

Fri, Aug 1 20254:17 PM EDT Stocks close lower Stocks closed lower on Friday, after a weaker-than-expected jobs report worried investors that the economy is meaningfully slowing down. The S&P 500 slipped 1.6% to close 6,238.01, while the Nasdaq Composite pulled back 2.24% 20,650.13. The Dow Jones…

Illustration by Karolis Strautniekas For Cape Town-based filmmaker Kate D’hotman, connecting with movie audiences comes naturally. Far more daunting is speaking with others. “I’ve never understood how people [decipher] social cues,” the 40-year-old director of horror films says. D’hotman has autism…

Across the world, people say their loved ones are developing intense obsessions with ChatGPT and spiraling into severe mental health crises. A mother of two, for instance, told us how she watched in alarm as her former husband developed an all-consuming relationship with the OpenAI chatbot, calling…

Huge numbers of people are either already using chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as therapists, or turning to commercial AI therapy platforms for help during dark moments. But is the tech ready for that immense responsibility? A new study by researchers at Stanford University found that the answer…

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