I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting…

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LG has responded to our deep-dive investigation revealing the depths of LG Smart TV ACR data harvesting functionality, LG's claims to "owning the glass," and LG Smart TV security…

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

Calling someone a "Luddite" is usually an insult – shorthand for someone who is behind the times. But the real Luddites weren't just afraid of change; they were a labor movement fighting to save their jobs from being replaced by machines. Today, with the…

I was an Engineering Manager at Evernote. I managed the team that built and operated Evernote’s notifications system, handling 110M messages in 2022. After Bending Spoons acquired Evernote…

Our next generation of Apple Intelligence is centered around our users, integrated deeply into our operating systems, and powered by a bold…

Twenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the go…

Xe Iaso's personal website.

One recurrent computation across prompt and response. Latent reasoning with infinite temporal depth.

It's unusual to not have a hurricane form by September 10, the peak historical average date. With nothing on the horizon this weekend, the records are piling up.

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting…

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I recently went through a translation of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings.

The introduction chronicled the evolution of swordsmanship and martial arts in general from pragmatic battlefield necessitie…

Following the death of Henry I, medieval England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered.

So I’ve been meaning to write about something, but got sucked into this rabbit hole, and now I’m kinda scared if I’ve been a subject of propaganda that worked on me.
A common theme in software development AI discourse is that there are “serious” engineers…

Are we all going to die?

[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School …

You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?