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"Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60...

"Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries...Grok 3 had a much higher error rate, answering 94 percent of the queries incorrectly." https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php

“This company is special in that its first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then”...

“This company is special in that its first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then” 🤷‍♀️

"[A]t least even Juicero, Wag, and the Fyre Festival had an actual product."...

"[A]t least even Juicero, Wag, and the Fyre Festival had an actual product." https://www.ft.com/content/70310b03-6bd6-46e2-b842-8db474ff02a5

An excellent documentary about what life was like at the turn of the 20th century when inadequate federal government infrastructures...

An excellent documentary about what life was like at the turn of the 20th century when inadequate federal government infrastructures existed. Worth watching! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjpYzFtxfjU

"The patient monitor may be remotely controlled by an unauthorized user or not work as intended."...

"The patient monitor may be remotely controlled by an unauthorized user or not work as intended." https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-certain-patient-monitors-contec-and-epsimed-fda-safety-communication?

It's Groundhog Day again, and things haven't improved in our tech ecosystem. So, I'm reposting my (Groundhog Day) argument in...

It's Groundhog Day again, and things haven't improved in our tech ecosystem. So, I'm reposting my (Groundhog Day) argument in favor of a new Bureau of Technology Safety. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-s-morning-again-in-pennsylvania-rebooting-computer-security-through-a-bureau-of-technology-safety

The Apollo 8 mission (and system crash) would have potentially ended tragically. (Margaret Hamilton)...

The Apollo 8 mission (and system crash) would have potentially ended tragically. (Margaret Hamilton) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/margaret-hamilton-led-nasa-software-team-landed-astronauts-moon-180971575/

A Nazi spy ring in South American would potentially have gone undetected....

A Nazi spy ring in South American would potentially have gone undetected. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-code-breaking-quaker-poet-hunted-nazis/ The rumrunner mob cases would have potentially gone the other way in 1933. https://themobmuseum.org/blog/elizebeth-friedman-the-rumrunners-worst-nightmare/ (Elizebeth Friedman)

I'll start: Compilers would likely not have existed in 1952. That means most of modern computing would likely not exist in its current...

I'll start: Compilers would likely not have existed in 1952. That means most of modern computing would likely not exist in its current form. (Grace Hopper) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

It's Groundhog Day. And allegedly some museum folks are feeling pressure to erase pioneering contributions to the history of computing...

It's Groundhog Day. And allegedly some museum folks are feeling pressure to erase pioneering contributions to the history of computing made by women again?

Here's a gender-neutral test: if you remove the contributions of the people in this museum, what would be lost? www.pilotlab.org/herstoryus

"DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations 'due to large-scale malicious attacks' on its...

"DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations 'due to large-scale malicious attacks' on its services." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/deepseek-hit-with-large-scale-cyberattack-says-its-limiting-registrations.html

Looking for an ERA explainer? https://www.manglonalab.org/era

Looking for an ERA explainer? https://www.manglonalab.org/era

Another important software fraud enforcement action (my characterization, not EPA's) from EPA....

Another important software fraud enforcement action (my characterization, not EPA's) from EPA. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/hino-motors-toyota-subsidiary-agrees-plead-guilty-and-pay-over-16b-resolve-emissions

Human proofreading. It's useful.

Human proofreading. It's useful.

"It’s a rare admission of product failure by the iPhone maker — and the latest indication that tech giants are struggling to...

"It’s a rare admission of product failure by the iPhone maker — and the latest indication that tech giants are struggling to overcome the propensity of generative artificial intelligence software to “hallucinate,” or make up facts." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/16/apple-intelligence-hallucination/

Are you at (the last ever 😢) ShmooCon? Join us tomorrow morning for Hacker (Non)Court to watch a moot arbitration between two companies...

Are you at (the last ever 😢) ShmooCon? Join us tomorrow morning for Hacker (Non)Court to watch a moot arbitration between two companies whose AI eyewear joint venture went horribly wrong. https://www.shmoocon.org/speakers/#hackercourt Stream available: https://www.shmoocon.org/streams/

For those of you too young to get the reference: https://youtu.be/XyZtMfMWONI?feature=shared

For those of you too young to get the reference: https://youtu.be/XyZtMfMWONI?feature=shared

Time to harden the donuts. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/11/business/krispy-kreme-cyber-attack-hack

Time to harden the donuts. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/11/business/krispy-kreme-cyber-attack-hack

Something is not right with this Google Books scan but I can't quite put my finger on what it is... Another reminder to me about why...

Something is not right with this Google Books scan but I can't quite put my finger on what it is...

Another reminder to me about why data quality matters. (This particular book is in the public domain, btw.)

"The Department [of Justice] has not yet announced its goals for the next 2-year period covering FYs 2024-2025. However, we...

"The Department [of Justice] has not yet announced its goals for the next 2-year period covering FYs 2024-2025. However, we believe...existing metrics for ransomware do not capture the effectiveness of its disruptive activities against malicious actors. Regardless of whether the Department maintains ransomware as a priority goal, it should determine which metrics are most impactful to ensure they capture the effectiveness of its actions to combat the ransomware threat" https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/24-107.pdf