LLMs are helpful, but don't use them for anything important AI models just can't seem to stop making things up. As two recent studies point out, that proclivity underscores prior warnings not to rely on AI advice for anything that really matters.…

Alethe Denis exposes tricks that made you fall for that return-to-office survey Interview  A hacker walked into a "very big city" building on a Wednesday morning with no keys to any doors or elevators, determined to steal sensitive data by breaking into both the physical space and the corporate Wi-Fi network.…

Researchers from ETH Zurich have devised a machine learning program that can solve Google reCAPTCHA v2 image recognition challenges with perfect accuracy. Although these often-maligned tests are becoming obsolete, they still play an important role in internet security.Read Entire Article

If your memory of slot cars as a childhood toy is of lightweight controllers with wire-wound rheostats inside, then you’re many years behind the state of the art when it …read more

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It’s a well-known secret that inkjet ink is being kept at artificially high prices, which is why many opt to forego ‘genuine’ manufacturer cartridges and get third-party ones instead. Many …read more

LinkedIn’s AI-training kerfuffle is a stark reminder that telling users they can “opt out” of something is mostly meaningless. But first...

    See that little circle? That’s a camera. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

All around Meta’s Menlo Park campus, cameras stared at me. I’m not talking about security cameras or my fellow reporters’ DSLRs. I’m not even talking about smartphones. I mean Ray-Ban and Meta’s smart glasses, which Meta hopes we’ll all — one day, in some form — wear. I visited Meta for this year’s Connect conference, where just about every hardware product involved cameras. They’re on the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that got a software update, the new Quest 3S virtual reality headset, and Meta’s prototype Orion AR glasses. Orion is what Meta calls a “time machine”: a functioning example of what full-fledged AR could look like, years before it will be consumer-ready. But on Meta’s campus, at least, the Ray-Bans were already everywhere. It...

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A few days ago the source code for the popular Winamp music player was released into the world, with as we reported at the time, a licence that left a …read more

Company failed to follow one of the most sacrosanct rules for password storage.

AI screengrab service to be opt-in, features encryption, biometrics, enclaves, more Microsoft has revised the Recall feature for its Copilot+ PCs and insists that the self-surveillance system is secure.…