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Researchers have adapted techniques from functional neuroimaging to map internal "functional networks" in large language models. By presenting the model with task-based prompts in …

I think it is the flippant manner in which they expose the security concern and recommend a product few would actually use.

I cut myself significantly less with a single blade than I ever did with the disposables. Disposables breed laziness for "it's good for one more shave" syndrome. And you tend to ge…

As an American the phrase "chiefly freedom" sends shivers down my spine. I'm sure you don't mean it as such, but it sounds so narrow minded and "rah rah" patriotic. I wish America …

I'm more upset on how blatantly racist the initial and other tweets seem.

No rechargeable remote? Should of had a simple dock on top to charge the remote and another dock purchased with the game pad. No need for batteries.

I always thought that the digital stock market should take a page from the cryptocurrencies and add a digital proof-of-work that will cap the speed of a transition. A "temporal tax…

Doesn't work well in my 9.4 T MRI environment :)

The joke between us engineers at work is to estimate the project time, then multiply by pi.

I think most of your repliers are forgetting about Blackwater. (/tinfoil-hat)

see above, pls.

As far as I can tell, the x-ray works similar to the dentist office. While, the basic idea behind the active backscatter mm-wave is similar to radar. It is my understanding that th…

Agreed, I opt-out every time I can. This gives me a chance to talk to the TSA agent. This puts human faces on the, typically, blurry screen of human mass. When they ask why I opt-o…

I don't think this is the case. But on a smaller scale: The Bush administration would put out a piece of legislation that was a hyperbole, watch the public/democrats react, then ra…

For all of those who are commenting about sysadmins grabbing as much data as they go out, I highly suspect that all of the newly unemployed sysadmins were or have been escorted by …

I've long thought this, but never read someone say it so starkly. My heart dropped with every sentence. Any suggested reading?

The apathy is the scary part. I fear it would take a mass roundup of people before the "we need this because of X" people might start questioning it. OTOH, it may be mental (illnes…

opencongress.org exists. but that doesn't mean that Congress looks at it.

The irony of the Internet, just as easy to make an NSA profile as it is for a person tracking.

This is feasible today. Although it takes a decent skill set. Open source communities like OpenCore.org have enough FPGA architecture to build your own RISC computer from scratch. …

So one could send out a bunch of dummy encryption files, get caught, get in jail, then show that the files were empty, then sue? Sounds easy, just hope one doesn't land in gitmo!

Agreed, if I was looking for a candidate that will always "reinvent the wheel" then I would want them to implement from scratch. I find it perfectly valid for the interviewee to sa…

Oh great. That would mean this is the lesser evil of the other potential scandals.

Or better yet everyone capable start a p2p service with email as the protocol and millions of random encrypted and nonencrypted junk files to an entire web of ever increasing spam …