A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original
Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk — Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard …
Watching OpenAI's o3 guess a photo's location, a process that included running Python code to examine license plates, is surreal, dystopian, and entertaining
Watching OpenAI's new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. Bluesky: @wildebees , @stagefright , and @robmanuelyeah . F...
OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why
OpenAI's internal tests show o3 hallucinated on 33% of person-related questions, double the rate of previous models. Even worse, o4-mini hit 48%. Mastodon: Aulia Masna / @aulia@mementomori.social : “...
How LLMs are taught to reason, the downsides of “chain of thought”, how models might solve problems without reasoning, and evaluating LLMs for general reasoning
What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today's large language models? X: @mattbeane , @rtk254 , @rodneyabrooks , and @piesaac X: Matt Beane / @mattbeane : VERY well written summary of...
CISA releases an open-source Python-based utility to detect signs of malicious activity in Microsoft cloud environments
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Using automation, Trellix patches nearly 62K open-source projects susceptible to a Python path traversal flaw first disclosed in 2007, affecting ~350K projects
Menghan Xiao / SC Media :
A Python directory traversal vulnerability disclosed in August 2007, but never patched, likely affects 350K+ open-source projects and can lead to code execution
A vulnerability in the Python programming language that has been overlooked for 15 years is now back in the spotlight …
Google Colaboratory, a web service popular with AI researchers for running Python code, quietly bans deepfake-related projects, though some remain
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Researchers discover that a popular Python library “ctx” and PHP package “phpass” have been compromised to steal developers' AWS keys and credentials
PyPI module ‘ctx’ that gets downloaded over 20,000 times a week has been compromised in a software supply chain attack …