85% of College Students Report AI Use
85% of College Students Report AI Use Summary A new Inside Higher Ed survey, reported via Slashdot, finds that 85% of college students used generative AI for coursework in the…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an automated offensive-research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses LLM prompts (they used Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories…
Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane
Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane Summary A chartered plane carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen experienced GPS signal loss approaching Plovdiv,…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary The Slashdot post highlights an NBC News report about a growing cottage industry: freelancers hired to clean up…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
OpenAI has confirmed that it automatically scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions flagged as planning harm to specialised pipelines for human review. Human reviewers trained on OpenAI’s policies can take…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students — many self-styled entrepreneurs and crypto enthusiasts — have gathered at Forest City, Malaysia, to attend Network School,…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry?
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary British “AI music creator” Oliver McCann — who says he has no musical training…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A recent lawsuit accuses Amazon Prime Video of misleading customers by using the word “buy” for…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers who work on Blizzard’s Diablo franchise have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers…
Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake
Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake Summary A cardiologist’s roundup (Eric Topol) of published meta-analyses and randomised controlled trials finds no reliable evidence that consuming more than 1.6 grams of protein…