WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary This episode of WIRED’s Uncanny Valley, hosted by Zoë Schiffer with senior politics editor Leah Feiger, rounds up five major stories from the…
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 led by Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) that aims…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research system, developed by two Israeli cybersecurity researchers and nicknamed Auto Exploit, uses prompts to large language models, CVE…
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 under-16s from accounts on major social platforms. Authors Helen Christensen…
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 built an open-access epigenetic atlas mapping DNA methylation changes across 17 human tissue…
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 New UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) data show a sharp rise in applications but only a…
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson rounds up short reviews of recent popular-science books. The pieces covered in this brief include Joe Tidy’s Ctrl+Alt+Chaos…
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 PhD researcher Rashna Kumar (Internet Society Pulse Research Fellowship) mapped network paths to government domains in…
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 A reader recounts working as a part-time DBA for a company that ran two MySQL…
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 their sources on the Sun, separating Solar Energetic Electron…