Making Large Language Models work for you (simonwillison.net)
Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ (wapo.st)
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An Internet Veteran’s Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology (www.nytimes.com)
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[Corp Blog, Malware Analysis] Catching up with WoofLocker, the most elaborate traffic redirection scheme to tech support scams (www.malwarebytes.com)
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[Opinion, Schneier on Security] UK Electoral Commission Hacked - Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com)
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Apple has reportedly started the production of its next-generation iPhone 15 in Tamil Nadu, India, reports Bloomberg. (www.iphoneincanada.ca)
The Foxconn factory located in Sriperumbudur is gearing up to roll out the latest iPhone 15 models....
How to run a shadow library (like Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, and Z-Library): operations at Anna’s Archive (annas-blog.org)
Near Infrared Spectroscopy Market Trends, Growth Factors, Revenue Analysis, For 2021–2028 (kbin.melroy.org)
The global Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy market size is expected to reach USD 437.3 Million at a steady CAGR of 6.2% in 2028, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Near infrared spectroscopy market revenue growth is driven by steady rise in demand for specific tests and improved quality results. The technology...
Industrial Wastewater Treatment Service Market Trends, Growth Factors, Revenue Analysis, For 2021–2028 (kbin.melroy.org)
The global industrial wastewater treatment service market size is expected to reach USD 31.70 Billion in 2028 and register a steady CAGR over the forecast period, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Steady market revenue growth can be attributed to rising need to meet government wastewater quality requirements....
Boston Dynamics’ Founder on the Future of Robotics (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Smart Home Market Trends, Growth Factors, Revenue Analysis, For 2021–2028 (kbin.melroy.org)
The global smart home market size is expected to reach USD 184.10 Billion in 2028 and register a steady CAGR over the forecast period, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Steady market revenue growth can be attributed to rising need for improved energy efficiency in homes to minimize energy bills and carbon...
[Question] Does anyone know / have experience with the Spritely Institute? (spritely.institute)
Suit against tech giant Cisco shines light on U.S. complicity in Chinese torture (www.news-journal.com)
After a 12-year legal battle, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lawsuit accusing technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. and two former executives of assisting the Chinese government in identifying and targeting Falun Gong practitioners for arrests, torture, and execution could proceed to trial. The ruling could...
Pregnant Black Woman In The U.S. The Latest Victim Of Detroit PD Facial Recognition False Positive (www.techdirt.com)
A Guide to Enhance Innovative Information with Indexing and Abstracting Services (www.acadecraft.com)
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[ESET Research] MoustachedBouncer: Espionage against foreign diplomats in Belarus, probably collaborating with the Belarus government, by tricking Windows OS (www.welivesecurity.com)
News article: techcrunch.com/…/belarus-hackers-target-foreign-d…...
LK99 - The case for scepticism (twitter.com)
I’m not plugged into all the hype around lk99, but this person seems to be a nice balance of hype, technical background and eagerness to not be wrong about things....
'According-to Prompting' Language Models Improves Quoting from Pre-Training Data (arxiv.org)
Large Language Models (LLMs) may hallucinate and generate fake information, despite pre-training on factual data. Inspired by the journalistic device of “according to sources”, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. propose ‘according-to prompting’: directing LLMs to ground responses against previously...
CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips (www.reuters.com)
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Comparison XMPP/Matrix (www.freie-messenger.de)
Forcing your computer to rat you out (pluralistic.net)
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New AI systems collide with copyright law (www.bbc.co.uk)
Study shows how images and sounds can be used for indirect prompt and instruction injection in multi-modal LLMs (arxiv.org)
An attacker generates an adversarial perturbation corresponding to the prompt and blends it into an image or audio recording. When the user asks the (unmodified, benign) model about the perturbed image or audio, the perturbation steers the model to output the attacker-chosen text and/or make the subsequent dialog follow the...