UN hypocrisy in AI Environmental demands
I have spent the better part of my life fighting for privacy – for the right of a person to control what is known about them, by whom, and to what end. It is a right the United Nations itself gave the world, in Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, […]
Where every major LLM stands politically
What is Political bias in AI? Political bias in AI measures where the major AI models stand on charged questions about politics, economics, speech and society. We ask every model the same open question bank many times over, with web search off, classify each answer with a cheap neutral model, and plot the result with […]
Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
State mass surveillance USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world. There are two types of mass surveillance. Commercial, which you can read about here. And mass surveillance carried […]
Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more
Apple has raised prices across the board for many of its products today. MacBook Neo now starts at $699 (up from $599), while MacBook Air now starts at $1299 (up from $1099). Other impacted products include MacBook Pro, iPad, iPad Air, and many more. iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods pricing is unchanged. Why is Apple […]
LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
LastPass users are once again being warned about stolen personal data, though this time the breach happened through one of the company’s outside partners. Here are the details. LastPass says password vaults not affected As reported by TechCrunch, LastPass is emailing users affected by a breach at market research firm Klue, which allowed hackers to […]
Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition
Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a global first by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition. British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wrote a letter to management today, Wednesday 24th of June requesting their right to be represented by the United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW) […]
Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all
Cloudflare provides services that help run 20% of the web, but we don’t do it alone. Developers on our platform use a myriad of tools and services from other companies too. Cloudflare provides a rich API for our platform that enables developers to create automations, CI/CD, and integrations that glue together the various parts of […]
Bible as RAG Database
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Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2
Humanizers are a class of adversarial tools designed to modify AI-generated text in a manner that evades AI detectors.22We previously published a paper on these tools here. To see where humanized text sits relative to human and AI text in activation space, we created a separate humanizers dataset, which consists of roughly 1,900 samples, roughly […]
Ending All Respiratory Infections
A century ago, waterborne diseases levied similar costs to those posed by respiratory viruses like colds and influenza today: endemic, periodically epidemic, and widely accepted as an inevitable feature of human life. Then, at the turn of the twentieth century, we decided they didn’t have to be. Pharmaceutical advances and clean water infrastructure made cholera, […]