85% of College Students Report AI Use
85% of College Students Report AI Use Summary New survey data reported by Inside Higher Ed and shared on Slashdot finds that 85% of college students used generative AI for…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary On this episode of Uncanny Valley, host Zoë Schiffer and WIRED senior politics editor Leah Feiger run through five of the week’s top…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Content summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large language model being developed by the Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence…
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents Summary The WIRED feature explores the emerging niche that pairs generative AI agents with online gambling. It profiles founders and startups…
Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries
Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries Summary This WIRED piece explores how spiritual influencers and wellness figures are treating AI chatbots as mystical guides. The…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an automated offensive research pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that uses large language models, CVE advisories and code…
NIST Enhances Security Controls for Improved Patching
NIST Enhances Security Controls for Improved Patching Summary The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published an update to its Security and Privacy Control catalogue (version 5.2.0) to…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research by PhD student Rashna Kumar, conducted under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, mapped…
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA
I was a part-time DBA. After this failover foul-up, they hired a full-time DBA Summary In this Who, Me? reader story, “Derek” relates how he worked as a part-time DBA…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will help space boffins predict destructive coronal ejections Summary The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to the Sun and separated Solar Energetic…