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Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app (www.theverge.com)

I mean, he’s not wrong that the app wasn’t ready. Which begs the question why they didn’t un-roll-it-out. >.>

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output (www.theregister.com)

Source Nature research paper

AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (deepmind.google)

Today, we present AlphaProof, a new reinforcement-learning based system for formal math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our geometry-solving system. Together, these systems solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving the same level as a silver...

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. (trufflesecurity.com)

OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. (www.theatlantic.com)

CrowdStrike says over 97% of Windows sensors back online (www.reuters.com)

How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)

Data Wallets Using the Solid Protocol (www.schneier.com)

a digital wallet is a repository for personal data and documents. Right now, there are hundreds of different wallets, but no standard.

CrowdStrike to vendors: Sorry for the global tech outage. Here’s a $10 Uber Eats voucher (www.cnn.com)

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature (www.nature.com)

It is now clear that generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models (LLMs) is here to stay and will substantially change the ecosystem of online text and images. Here we consider what may happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the text found online. We find that indiscriminate use of...

Tailscale now opens for ControlD integration! (tailscale.com)

77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)

The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high...

Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor (theintercept.com)

The “IT For IDF” conference in Rishon LeZion, just south of Tel Aviv, brought together tech firms from across the world to support the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and beyond....

OpenAI had/will have a page about Microsoft for Startups. Why? (openai.com)

User-agent: * Allow: / Disallow: /microsoft-for-startups/...

Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] (9to5google.com)

Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (arstechnica.com)

Sudan’s plea to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Please don’t shut off our internet. (www.analystnews.org)

North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on US hospitals. (www.voanews.com)

Google DeepMind’s AI systems can now solve complex math problems. (www.technologyreview.com)

What's with all the hate for Chinese phones?

I get that Huawei, or ZTE are not a good idea for network infrastructure, and that phones for people in governments, military, large corps and research environments, should be vetted, but for average Joe? Many Chinese manufacturers don’t have close ties to the government, and any non Chinese phone that you can buy also has...

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