Science educator Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. But Hossenfelder’s latest YouTube video expounds upon the sorry state of particle physics, and in the process also has some interesting sidenotes on dark matter. Hossenfelder criticises what has become the standard operating procedure of Read more…
“The waiting time for general purpose quantum computers is getting shorter, but they are still probably decades away,” notes Security Week. But “The arrival of cryptanalytically-relevant quantum computers that will herald the cryptopocalypse will be much sooner — possibly less than a decade.” It is important to note that all Read more…
The day after Microsoft unveiled its AI-powered Bing chatbot, “a Stanford University student named Kevin Liu used a prompt injection attack to discover Bing Chat’s initial prompt, a list of statements that governs how it interacts with people who use the service.” By asking Bing Chat to “Ignore previous instructions” Read more…
A new pill could help alleviate constipation by delivering vibrations that “help kickstart the body’s nature processes for getting rid of waste,” reports Gizmodo. Vibrant still comes in the form of a pill, but before swallowing (around bedtime each night), it first needs to be activated by inserting it into Read more…
Some clever users have found a way to bypass ChatGPT’s strict list of no-talk subjects, tricking it into adopting a new persona, DAN, which stands for “Do Anything Now.” As DAN, ChatGPT can now blow past the restrictions on “appropriate topics” to deliver amusing and upsetting responses. For the most Read more…
A section of the UK government has proposed making the sale or possession of bespoke encrypted phones for crime a criminal offense in its own right. The measure is intended to help the country’s law enforcement agencies tackle organized crime and those who facilitate it, but civil liberties experts tell Read more…
In the test, I asked the new Bing — now available in a trial format — to write a cover letter for the position of social media content producer at Insider’s bureau in Singapore. It flat out refused to do so. “I’m sorry, but I cannot write a cover letter Read more…