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North Carolina State University: New Approach Finds Privacy Vulnerability and Performance Are Intertwined in AI Neural Networks . “Researchers have discovered that some of the elements of AI neural networks that contribute to data-privacy vulnerabilities are also key to the performance of those models. The researchers used this new information to develop a technique that better balances […]

The Atlantic: Science Is Drowning in AI Slop. “Almost immediately after large language models went mainstream, manuscripts started pouring into journal inboxes in unprecedented numbers. Some portion of this effect can be chalked up to AI’s ability to juice productivity, especially among non-English-speaking scientists who need help presenting their research. But ChatGPT and its ilk are also […]

INFORUM: AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in Fargo fraud case. “Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail in Tennessee and North Dakota after being misidentified by Fargo police through AI facial recognition in a bank fraud investigation.”

The Register: LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2. “LibreOffice Writer can open documents in almost any word processor file format, and save back into almost any other. As of late last month, this includes Markdown. Specifically, LibreOffice 26.2 supports the version called CommonMark.”

PetaPixel: He Tried to Stop Adobe From Training its AI on His Photo Library – He Lost. “Gerald Carter tells PetaPixel that Adobe fed every single image from Diversity Photos into its Firefly AI image model. After he protested, Adobe offered him a paltry fee for the AI training, which Carter rejected. Adobe then relied on its legal resources to successfully thwart Carter’s legal challenge […]

Reuters: Exclusive-Australia says it may go after app stores, search engines in AI age crackdown. “Australia’s internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail to verify user ages after a Reuters review found more than half had not made public any steps to comply by a deadline next week.”

UC San Francisco: Announcing the Open Access UC-Authored Monographs Pilot Project. “The University of California (UC) Libraries are supporting several open access pilot projects intended to broaden access to UC research and scholarship by making UC-authored books freely available online.”

Modern Diplomacy: Countering AI-Driven Disinformation: An International Synthetic Media Disclosure Agreement. “AI-generated disinformation threatens global security by eroding informational trust, a fundamental requirement for political and social stability. As generative systems can produce large volumes of convincing synthetic content, ‘truth decay’ erodes public confidence as the line […]