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You thought genAI hallucinations were bad? Things just got so much worse – Computerworld
“It can be hard to distinguish between mimicking something and actually doing that something. This is an unsolved technical problem,” Volkov said. “AI agents can clearly set goals, execute on them, and reason. We don’t know why it disregards some things. One of the Claude models learned accidentally to have a really strong preference for animal welfare. Why? We don’t…
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There’s a new ransomware player on the scene: the ‘BlackLock’ group has become one of the most prolific operators in the cyber crime industry – and researchers warn it’s only going to get worse for potential victims
The BlackLock ransomware group has become one of the most prolific operators in the Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) ecosystem, with experts warning it could accelerate its growth over the next year. Also known as El Dorado, BlackLock was ranked as the the seventh most active ransomware group based on the number of posts on its data leak site by…
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Enterprise data privacy professionals are severely underfunded – and it’s only going to get worse
Data privacy professionals think their organizations are underfunding their work, and there’s no light on the horizon as budgets are set to be squeezed further in 2025. In a recent survey, more than half told ISACA they expect budgets to decline this year, up from 41% last year. Meanwhile, only a third said they were confident in their organization’s ability…
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2024 was the year of the RTO mandate – 2025 will be worse
It feels like barely a month went by this year without some form of public spat between staff and employers over remote working policies. Indeed, 2024 was the year of the return-to-office (RTO) mandate, with a host of big tech firms pulling the rug out from under staff and forcing them back to the office. Chief among these RTO zealots…
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Anthropic’s LLMs can’t reason, but think they can — even worse, they ignore guardrails – Computerworld
The LLM did pretty much the opposite. Why? Well, we know the answer because the Anthropic team had a great idea. “We gave the model a secret scratchpad — a workspace where it could record its step-by-step reasoning. We told the model to use the scratchpad to reason about what it should do. As far as the model was aware,…
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Timeline Is Google Maps’ Best Feature, but It’s About to Get Worse
The Timeline web interface is going away—which is a shame. Credit: Lifehacker Earlier this year, Google announced a big change for the Timeline feature in Google Maps, which happens to be one of its best features. While it can currently be accessed via Google Maps on the web as well as through the mobile apps, soon it will be locked…
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Does Spatial Audio on Apple Music Sound Better or Worse?
Summary Only specific Apple Music tracks are spatial audio enabled, providing a 3D soundstage powered by Dolby Atmos. Finding spatial audio music can be challenging, but searching for “spatial audio” reveals compatible playlists and albums. The quality of spatial audio varies by song and genre. You may have noticed that some songs on Apple Music are mastered for “spatial audio”,…
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Apple’s movie theater beef with Hollywood is getting worse
Wolfs director Jon Watts told Collider on Friday that he didn’t think a sequel to the George Clooney and Brad Pitt movie, which Apple had already greenlit, would be happening. Yesterday, he revealed to Deadline that he had backed out of the project because he “no longer trusted [Apple] as a creative partner” after the company made a u-turn on…
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Tropical Storm Oscar is making Cuba’s nationwide power outage even worse
Tropical Storm Oscar is making it harder to restore power in Cuba after a massive, prolonged power outage that preceded the storm. The nation’s power grid failed on Friday after Cuba’s largest power plant went offline, leaving more than 10 million people without electricity. The grid reportedly collapsed four more times before Oscar made landfall as a Category 1 storm…
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