Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada,...
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Open-source AI is just “4 months behind” closed frontier models — and 10x cheaper
A quiet revolution is brewing in the AI model space. The dominance of proprietary closed frontier models has been cemented The post Open-source AI is just...
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Frontier AI: The Genie's Out of the Bottle, but Where's the Rulebook?
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence models are deploying with more independence and less human oversight. Several state governments are trying to legislate transparency in their use.
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"They would feel a kind of sadness, right?": Slay the Spire 2 dev on using slightly rubbish placeholder art over AI
Those of you that have been playing Slay the Spire 2 in its current early access form will have seen that some of the placeholder art...
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Astronomers Find New Features Hiding in the Orion Nebula
A team of researchers used the world's largest single-dish telescope and an interferometer to uncover previously hidden structures within the Orion Nebula. The project produced the...
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Samsung 990 2TB SSD Review: New flash, familiar speeds
The Samsung 990 is the QLC variant of the manufacturer’s 990 EVO Plus. Despite having newer flash, it largely performs like last-gen, with mediocre power efficiency.
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How I Turned AI to the Dark Side
Summary Researcher Dave Kuszmar discovered multiple systemic vulnerabilities that let him bypass LLM safety and obtain dangerous instructions. These exploits worked across nearly all major LLMs...
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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates
The population of the communities surrounding the Colossus 2 site, which is in the center of a lawsuit involving unpermitted natural gas turbines and pollution, is...
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ClickFix's Mushrooming Ecosystem Demands New Defense Tactics
The attack vector is available for rent at scale, and evades AV and EDR, leaving YARA analysis as the best detection option.
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Astronomers are Hunting Down the Elusive Population III Stars
It’s hard hunting down the oldest stars in the universe. These behemoths, known as Population (or Pop) III stars, are a missing link in cosmology between...
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