WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley podcast (hosted by Zoë Schiffer) rounds up five of the week’s biggest stories, led by an exclusive on early departures…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large language model developed by Chile’s non-profit CENIA to serve Latin America and the…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline developed by two independent Israeli researchers (dubbed “Auto Exploit”) uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The Australian Online Safety Amendment Act will bar people under 16 from major social platforms. Christensen and Mackinnon…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary A large meta-analysis mapped DNA methylation — the addition or removal of methyl groups that regulate…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20%
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary By Laura Woodrow. New UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) data show a sharp drop in the…
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 Research led by PhD student Rashna Kumar, under an Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship, mapped network…
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 Reader-contributed tale from ~2012: a part-time DBA (“Derek”) managed two MySQL instances in symmetrical replication…
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 ESA’s Solar Orbiter has traced superfast electrons back to the Sun and separated Solar Energetic Electron (SEE) events…
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University
Larry Ellison bankrolling £118M AI vaccine research at Oxford University Summary Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is funding a £118 million (about $169.6m) research programme at the University of Oxford to…