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 […]
The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II
My Flute Goes To War by Howard Fosdick During the Second World War, America was united as it never has been since. Everyone had family and friends in the armed forces. Rationing of everyday items like sugar, coffee, fuel, and rubber was wholeheartedly (if often grudgingly) accepted as necessary to the war effort. Scrap drives […]
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) […]
Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide
Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: I have been reviving old hardware with Linux for the better part of a decade. The machines Windows 11 left behind are not trash. They are waiting for the right operating system. In this guide, I walk you through distro selection, RAM tuning, SSD upgrades, and browser optimization based on real […]
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 […]