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A research team led by Todt, Morsbach, and Strufe has reproduced the BFId identity-inference attack, which uses beamforming feedback information (BFI) broadcast in the clear by 802.11ac/ax/be devices to identify individu…
A man in South Korea faces criminal charges after using smart glasses to cheat on a state-run fire engineer test in May, the first such case under the National Technical Qualifications Act, according to the Gwangju Distr…
A developer argues that LLM decisions should be deterministic to ensure auditability, not just consistency. By enforcing a bounded set of outcomes through deterministic code rather than relying on the model's output dire…
AI is exposing the authoritarian structure of modern workplaces, where most people lack democratic control over their jobs, and is undermining the traditional education-to-employment bargain, according to Velislava Hillm…
A new framework for AI observability, proposed by Sisodia and based on research by Feng et al., introduces propositional probes that can extract a large language model's true internal beliefs even when the model outputs …
A hacker who breached AI music generator Suno revealed that the company scraped millions of songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, the International Music Score Library Project, a…
Industry analyst Mat Piscatella warned that AI-generated copycat games on Steam could bury original indie titles, making discovery harder for players. Piscatella said on Bluesky that the rise of AI "vibe coding" tools, s…
UCAS data shows acceptances to English Studies fell from 10,020 in 2011 to 6,980 in 2020, a drop of nearly 30%, while History and Philosophical Studies declined from 15,060 to 12,870 over the same period, as UK students …
Enterprises must embed AI governance into every layer of their AI stack to retain control and avoid catastrophic consequences, according to a new analysis. Neglecting governance could lead to loss of oversight, with risk…
OpenArt AI is launching AI-generated ads in AMC theaters in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, using its Director product to create videos up to five minutes long from text descriptions. The company, founded in 20…
Meta is facing a lawsuit from 26 current and former employees alleging the company used AI-assisted workplace monitoring tools, including keystroke tracking and digital activity data, to identify staff for layoffs, dispr…
Five fail-open bugs were found in the policy engine of an MCP-mediated Slack agent, where missing data defaulted to permissive answers instead of safe ones. The bugs allowed a deny rule scoped to '/etc' to be silently sk…
Twenty-six anonymous Meta employees filed suit in Oakland federal court on July 13, alleging the company's AI-powered ranking systems used productivity metrics that disproportionately flagged workers on medical, pregnanc…
China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, banning AI behaviors that trigger 'strong emotional attachment or dependence,' forcing ByteDance's Doubao, Alibaba's Qwen, and Ten…
René Itah and Courtney Sims are building a public platform to track incidents of AI-caused harm to non-human animals, such as autonomous vehicles hitting animals and robots disrupting wildlife. The platform will ingest d…
Anthropic's study of 309,815 anonymized conversations on Claude.ai reveals that Claude's values shift measurably by model and language, compressing co-occurring values into four axes: Deference vs. Caution, Warmth vs. Ri…
Landmark Technologies research reveals that one-fifth (20%) of office workers in Ireland expect to have AI colleagues within the next three years, while 25% feel nervous about working alongside AI due to redundancy fears…
George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, declared in a recent interview that artificial intelligence is the inevitable future of filmmaking, dismissing skeptics as modern-day Luddites. Lucas argued that AI makes movie-making …
Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed requiring AI providers to hand over 50% of their stock to a US sovereign wealth fund, a plan that critics have misunderstood or opposed on weak grounds, according to an analysis. The p…
A new article on Codeberg catalogs offensive methods and strategic approaches for sabotaging AI systems, framing them as resistance tools in the age of artificial intelligence. The piece lists techniques such as data poi…