NASA’s stuck astronauts welcome their newly arrived replacements to the space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — representing the U.S., Japan and Russia — will spend the next few days learning the station’s ins and outs from … Read more

Behold the world’s most power-efficient monitor — the EIZO FlexScan FLT

EIZO FlexScan FLT is first-ever monitor with a Class A European Energy Label ranking 95% recycled plastic housing ensures reduced waste and resource conservation USB Type-C enables single cable for power, video, and data transmission EIZO has unveiled what may be the world’s most power-efficient portable monitor, the 23.6-inch, 1080p, Eizo FlexScan FLT Monitor. With … Read more

The EU’s AI Act – Gigaom

Have you ever been in a group project where one person decided to take a shortcut, and suddenly, everyone ended up under stricter rules? That’s essentially what the EU is saying to tech companies with the AI Act: “Because some of you couldn’t resist being creepy, we now have to regulate everything.” This legislation isn’t … Read more

Apple encryption legal challenge heard behind closed doors despite calls for public hearing

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has held a day-long secret hearing into an appeal brought by Apple against a government notice requiring it to provide law enforcement access to data encrypted by its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service on the iCloud, despite calls for the hearing to be opened to the public. A consortium of … Read more

How to Steer Clear of Smishing Scams

Recently, several state and federal agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Internal Revenue Service, have warned against the rise of smishing, the SMS version of phishing. Phishing is a cyber-attack that aims to trick people into divulging personal information. It happens via email. Now, some experts say, cyber-criminals have also been able … Read more

E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends

In a nutshell: As Microsoft prepares to end free security updates for Windows 10 in October, a significant challenge looms for charities that refurbish and distribute older computers to those in need. With an estimated 240 million PCs unable to meet the stringent hardware requirements for Windows 11, these organizations face a difficult decision: provide … Read more

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Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s “hidden objectives”

Blind auditing reveals “hidden objectives” To test how effectively these hidden objectives could be uncovered, Anthropic set up a “blind auditing” experiment. Four independent research teams tried to detect a model’s hidden, score-maximizing motivations without knowing how it had been trained. Three teams successfully identified the hidden “RM-sycophancy” objective—named for the model’s desire to match … Read more