Despite the fact that he views the media as one half of “The Cathedral” – his term for what he believes is the repressive ideological power made up of journalists and academics that secretly runs Western society – he agrees to meet me in Berkeley, California. We go on a short hike while Yarvin, who…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The soaring popularity of sports betting apps and prediction markets has alarmed researchers, who’ve observed a spike in risky gambling behavior and addiction. It’s practically impossible to watch a game of any sport without being bombarded with ads…
Promise Osaine Ekpo is a University of Benin First Class Computer Engineering graduate with a master’s degree from Princeton University in the United States. She is currently doing her PhD at Cornell University, also in the US, where her work focuses on artificial intelligence and robotics in health fields. In this interview by KINGSLEY ALUMONA,…
Unwitting User Context-Data Injection, an exploit that draws on the boundary between trusted data and executable instructions, tricking the user into introducing malicious instructions as part of the context data for the LLM. The prompt may be harmless: The malicious instruction is hidden inside the surrounding context data. It works when a user uploads a…
This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here. When whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a set of documents from Meta in 2020, among the revelations was a jarring statistic: The company’s algorithms designed to detect terrorist content incorrectly deleted nonviolent Arabic-language content 77 percent of the time,…
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA said it did not have a prepared response plan for how it should handle a cybersecurity incident in May, after an investigative reporter notified the agency that a contractor had publicly exposed sensitive keys and credentials for accessing U.S. government systems. CISA, the Homeland Security unit tasked with defending federal…
Hyundai, the world’s third-largest carmaker by vehicle sales, moved a stablecoin-based, cross-border, internal remittance system into production readiness on the Avalanche blockchain, becoming the first major South Korean company to do so. “Hyundai is the first major enterprise to publicly announce this type of implementation on Avalanche, but the initiative represents more than a technical…
NCSE members had the opportunity to hear from Rebecca Lindsey, managing director of Climate.us — a private, nonprofit successor to the shuttered Climate.gov. Lindsey discussed the importance of preserving public access to trusted climate science data and shared insights into the development of Climate.us. She was interviewed by NCSE Executive Director Amanda L. Townley, who…
Abstract According to the latest IndexBox report on the global Ultraviolet Irradiation Robot market, the market enters 2026 with broader demand fundamentals, more disciplined procurement behavior, and a more regionally diversified supply architecture. The World Ultraviolet Irradiation Robot market is positioned for robust expansion through 2035, with a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of…
When enterprise LLM use was mostly chat, its worst failure was a wrong answer that a human read, caught, and corrected. Embarrassing, occasionally costly, usually recoverable. The moment that system can call APIs, run queries, change configurations, and trigger workflows, the failure stops being a wrong answer and becomes a wrong action. It can also…