Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students’ Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

The policy takes effect immediately, but educators say the first response must evolve as AI tools keep advancing. Danish high school students will be required to defend their written assignments orally under new government measures aimed at combating cheating with artificial intelligence. The Ministry of Education said that an oral defense will become mandatory for … Devamını oku

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

A minimal Chrome extension that disables LinkedIn’s home feed while keeping the rest of LinkedIn usable. I like LinkedIn for finding jobs and chatting with recruiters. I do not like being greeted by the wild-west social feed. After having “experienced” the Before image below, I decided to do something about it. Hence, this extension. The … Devamını oku

Fastmail offers EU data region

Many of you have been telling us that where your email is stored matters to you. There are various reasons for this, like local law, keeping your data close to home, or compliance. You can now make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam. Previously, … Devamını oku

Gateway 2000’s hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

This newsletter does not include sponsored posts, affiliate links, or ads (except the ones we make fun of together). Open and click tracking are disabled. And there is no paid upgrade or AI-generated content. Enjoy! Party hats and sunglasses on animals are the fart jokes of advertising. Somehow lazyandeffective, shallow yet infectious, and definitely not … Devamını oku

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

The wrong belief to clear first is that this is a way ofparkinga domain. It is close to the opposite. Parking replaces the site with a sales page, which costs you every visitor the domain still has._for-salesits beside a live site in DNS and says nothing to a browser: the homepage keeps serving, the mail … Devamını oku

The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference

For the past 3 years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have dominated the large language model (LLM) conversation. In traditional chatbot applications, central processing units (CPUs) provide a fraction of the total compute per request, while GPUs do the heavy lifting. However, inference isn’t a single model answering a single question. A growing reliance on tool … Devamını oku

DeepMind’s WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

WeatherNext enables accurate cyclone forecasts that can give an extra day of warning. Now we are open sourcing the model. Predicting how dangerous cyclones develop is a longstanding challenge where every hour counts. Tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are among the most destructive weather phenomena on Earth, responsible for more … Devamını oku

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previouslyon this blog).The videowas published yesterday. It’s short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it provides full details of what happened and how things played out inside OpenAI. I’ve used the video to construct … Devamını oku

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

: hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge // domas // @xoreaxeaxeax project:rosenbridge reveals a hardware backdoor in some desktop, laptop, and embedded x86 processors. The backdoor allows ring 3 (userland) code to circumvent processor protections to freely read and write ring 0 (kernel) data. While the backdoor is typically disabled (requiring ring 0 execution to … Devamını oku