A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'(pewresearch.org)

154 points by cpeterso 1 year ago | 68 comments

Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim(xbow.com)

66 points by fedek_ 5 months ago | 39 comments

Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail(the-decoder.com)

245 points by thm 11 months ago | 75 comments

Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy(pewresearch.org)

95 points by karakoram 19 days ago | 73 comments

Pew Research Center report on international survey findings that growing shares of people say social media is harming democracy.

The Differences Between Deep Research, Deep Research, and Deep Research(leehanchung.github.io)

200 points by thenameless7741 1 year ago | 66 comments

German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks(the-decoder.com)

104 points by amai 3 months ago | 21 comments

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks(arstechnica.com)

690 points by jonbaer 1 year ago | 771 comments

Ars Technica article on a Pew Research Center analysis finding Google's AI Overviews sharply reduce clicks to websites from search results.

Neural networks are clean(already-clean.goodfire.com)

768 points by themgt 11 days ago | 300 comments

An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable at scale.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

How to learn chess as an adult (2021)(alexcrompton.com)

492 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 255 comments

Personal blog post by Alex Crompton describing how he learned chess as an adult, improving from 300 to 1500 Elo in nine months.

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)

85 points by merksittich 16 days ago | 64 comments

Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.