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    Hackers infiltrate Rhode Island benefits portal, forcing state to shut it down

    I don't understand why nobody is talking about replacing SSNs ? In general many of the systems are rubbish and identity fraud is easy, including exploiting SSNs, why not go for stronger digital identity ? From electronic identification documents to alternatives like bankID where you would rely...
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    In IT? Need cash? Cybersecurity whistleblowers are earning big payouts.

    now do something like this for ISPs
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    Are LLMs capable of non-verbal reasoning?

    Seems to me that this could have negative effect on explainability
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    Studies pin down exactly when humans and Neanderthals swapped DNA

    So how many genocides there were ? Could use this as an argument for people claiming how ancients lived in hormony with the nature bs... they wiped out Neanderthals and were wiped out by the next wawe themselves.... Seems to be a repeating pattern...
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    Meet Hyperlight, Ars Technica’s new, even brighter “Light” mode

    Maybe its nitpicking but arstechnica.com/store does not respect the themes - totally fine if it's not worth the effort.
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    Thousands of child sex abuse victims sue Apple for lax CSAM reporting

    Shouldn't they have sued the government that it didn't write better laws ? /s Why does everybody feels entitled to be a victim of somebody with money ? less /s Apple tried to find a solution and killed it because it did not work - kudos for being scientific and engineering driven on this
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    US plan to protect consumers from data brokers faces dim future under Trump

    regulations are bad for profit, but not necessarily for society
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    Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

    These people are holes in the world, invisible to ChatGPT's magic. No matter how close they stand, they leave no trace, as though they never were. To the system, they are mere echoes that never reached its ears.
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    Anthropic hires its first “AI welfare” researcher

    both are not mutually exclusive - origin of speech may be that - repeating likely patterns and complex models build on top of that. Look just how many people mindlessly repeat what they have heard elsewhere
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    Anthropic hires its first “AI welfare” researcher

    what about long term memory ? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/amnesia-begone-soon-chatgpt-will-remember-what-you-tell-it-between-sessions/
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    Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine portends new era of warfare

    Well, maybe it is also about offering viable alternatives and adressing the problems that matter to people. This is the dangerous think of social network bubbles that everybody outside your bubble is stupid. In czech republic we had 8 years of horrible pro Russian president who liked to joke...
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    Elizabeth Warren calls for crackdown on Internet “monopoly” you’ve never heard of

    allowing others to register .com domains than Verisign ? There is this thing called competition. The legend says it reduces prices. However exclusive deals have the opposite purpose - since nobody else can offer .com domain you have a government sanctioned monopoly and you can just farm profit...
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    Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine portends new era of warfare

    Another major risk is political - Hungary and now Slovakia are in Putins money pocket, other parties in Europe are looking to follow their lead
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    Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukraine portends new era of warfare

    Nazi Germany almost choked on the first country it attacked, but when left to build up its army conquered half Europe. Unfortunately there are still too many politicians that want the situation to go back to the pre-war "normal". I am not so sure what should be the best response, but rushed...
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    Trump says Elon Musk will lead “DOGE,” a new Department of Government Efficiency

    This feel like another pump and dump scheme for Dogecoin from Elon
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    Anthropic hires its first “AI welfare” researcher

    what about "psychical" pain ? it may learn and experience it from humans.
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    The Ars redesign is out. Experience its ad-free glory for just $25/year.

    Maybe it needs a motto ? Like we want you to join the subs ? Or make subs great again ? Or some "the boys" play on words with "soups" ? Anyway...
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    JavaScript developers targeted by hundreds of malicious code libraries

    There is a lot more security control and institutional knowledge. It helps that for maven you can control the ownership by package prefixes - nobody can just release package in prefix like org.apache and large package repositories like sonatype mandated things like MFA for developers and TLS for...
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    JavaScript developers targeted by hundreds of malicious code libraries

    Thats why any serious company should use repository proxy that has that functionality and setup sources of packages that ideally verify identity or require package authors to use mfa or other precautions. If something hits the fan it also gives you option to see where was the impact, since you...
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    Fungi may not think, but they can communicate

    Seems to me that fungi may react and have a feedback loop - its not so surprising since plants may also turn to face sunlight. It's just another wonder of nature that it evolved another way of doing a feedback loop. I wonder if it would be an apt comparison to say , current AI is like fungi...