Software Development

 Trojanized mapping app steals users’ locations, contacts, and more.  [[{“value”:” Russian military personnel are being targeted with recently discovered Android malware that steals their contacts and tracks their location. The malware is hidden inside a modified app for Alpine Quest mapping software, which is used by, among others, hunters, athletes, and Russian personnel stationed in …

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 Users complain of new “sycophancy” streak where ChatGPT thinks everything is brilliant.  [[{“value”:” Ask ChatGPT anything lately—how to poach an egg, whether you should hug a cactus—and you may be greeted with a burst of purple praise: “Good question! You’re very astute to ask that.” To some extent, ChatGPT has been a sycophant for years, …

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 Frustrated software developer believed AI-generated message came from human support rep.  [[{“value”:” On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who use multiple devices. When the user contacted Cursor support, an agent named “Sam” told them …

Cursor AI support bot invents fake policy and triggers user uproar Read More »

 New o3 model appears “near-genius level,” according to one doctor, but it still makes mistakes.  [[{“value”:” On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning capabilities with access to functions like web browsing and coding. These models mark the first time OpenAI’s reasoning-focused models can use every ChatGPT tool …

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 Prompt injections are the Achilles’ heel of AI assistants. Google offers a potential fix.  [[{“value”:” In the AI world, a vulnerability called “prompt injection” has haunted developers since chatbots went mainstream in 2022. Despite numerous attempts to solve this fundamental vulnerability—the digital equivalent of whispering secret instructions to override a system’s intended behavior—no one has …

Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole Read More »

 Early info is unreliable, but the site has been mostly unavailable for hours.  [[{“value”:” Infamous Internet imageboard and wretched hive of scum and villainy 4chan was apparently hacked at some point Monday evening and remains mostly unreachable as of this writing. DownDetector showed reports of outages spiking at about 10:07 pm Eastern time on Monday, …

Internet cesspit 4chan apparently hacked, mostly unreachable since Monday night Read More »

 OpenAI’s brand new “GPT-4.1” has a funky name but reasonable performance for the price.  [[{“value”:” On Monday, OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, its newest series of AI language models that brings a 1 million token context window to OpenAI for the first time and continues a long tradition of very confusing AI model names. …

OpenAI continues naming chaos despite CEO acknowledging the habit Read More »

 New announcement seems aimed at appeasing Trump, signals company shift.  [[{“value”:” Nvidia announced plans today to manufacture AI chips and build complete supercomputers on US soil for the first time, commissioning over one million square feet of manufacturing space across Arizona and Texas. The politically timed move comes amid rising US-China tensions and the Trump …

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 Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?  [[{“value”:” Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in …

Microsoft is putting privacy-endangering Recall back into Windows 11 Read More »

 Even weirder: why would Google give so many the “Featured” stamp for trustworthiness?  [[{“value”:” Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million devices that have installed it and that the developer has taken pains to carefully conceal. The extensions, which so far …

Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs Read More »