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  1. Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic risk' to humankind ahead of blockbuster share (bbc.co.uk)
    3 points 6
  2. Anthropic's Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US (theguardian.com)
    2 points 0
  3. UK to invest £100M in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab (bbc.co.uk)
    2 points 0
  4. Linus's Law "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"

    Can we all agree now this was hubris? Or at least is now totally discredited?

    1 points 1
  5. Cyber-security issue hitting sites worldwide prompts 'millions' of hacking... (bbc.co.uk)
    2 points 2
  6. Since when was availability no longer part of security?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c58jd2kjp93xt Emma budgeting app says "This is a technical outage, not a security issue.

    1 points 0
  7. Google Meet Enshittification

    Google Meet Android app meeting join now claims to need Notification Permissions for incoming and outgoing calls. This claim is false. There's no such requirement. And if thete were, this would be needless and wholly…

    3 points 2
  8. Palantir patient data tech rejected by many NHS trusts in England (theguardian.com)
    2 points 0
  9. What's the management thinking behind enshittification

    ... such as pushing a software update to your customers' smart thermostat to show ads on its screen - as a new thing. One theory: Previously our customers were techy and smart, and would not stand it. Now we're more…

    1 points 11
  10. Would anyone sell a check that at least one house window was locked?

    Apparently Yes. https://support.ledger.com/article/4404389367057-zd

    1 points 0
  11. A.I. Companies Say They Aren't Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products (nytimes.com)
    2 points 4
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  13. Meatpupptry is far creepier than pure "AI" fakery

    Local pharmacy phoneline is answered by "Caroline" with convincing voice, mannerisms and even background typing noise. You only realise she's fake at the first stochastic parrotese. My bank sends emailed query responses…

    1 points 0
  14. 'Dystopian': Co-op becomes latest firm to put staff under AI surveillance (theguardian.com)
    4 points 2
  15. EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials' request (theguardian.com)
    3 points 5
  16. ChatGPT self-distances when admitting fault

    E.g. when its response contained a chunk of its UI HTML code as literal text and I queried why, it said: Because ChatGPT did not render the <iframe> tag as HTML. It treated my response as ordinary text, so you saw the…

    1 points 2
  17. OpenAI admits response to Australian government hacks 'not good enough' (bbc.co.uk)
    2 points 1
  18. Nobel Prize awarded for showing how nerve cells shape feelings (bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  19. BT accused of 'bullying' customers by pausing broadband in digital landline push (theguardian.com)
    1 points 0
  20. One cause of "AI" chatbots' accuracy being so poor?

    They're trained on so much web content that is plain wrong but authoritative due to apparent endorsement by humans that show tolerance based on understanding that an "AI" next-token predictor lacks. Example,…

    1 points 7
  21. Trump's "super intelligence" naming problem (tech.yahoo.com)
    1 points 2
  22. Trump renames AI to 'super intelligence' and tells Americans they have no choice (independent.co.uk)
    1 points 3
  23. "Google was not the first market leader in internet search. It was Netscape" (bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 4
  24. MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front co. stealing research (theguardian.com)
    1 points 7
  25. We need 'right to intervene' in AI amid growing threat says Bank of England boss (theguardian.com)
    1 points 2