Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn't learn to navigate with a remote, one Danish computer scientist did what any enterprising creator would do: He turned an old floppy disk drive into a kid-friendly content controller that starts streams based on what disk you insert. …

Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation ANALYSIS  From May's cyberattack on the Legal Aid Agency to the Foreign Office breach months later, cyber incidents have become increasingly common in UK government.…

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Months after China-linked spies burrowed into US networks, regulator tears up its own response The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scrapped a set of telecom cybersecurity rules introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, reversing course on measures designed to stop state-backed snoops from slipping back into America's networks.…

Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

Microsoft's Copilot helping workers perfect the ancient art of doing bugger all It’s been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere. AI years move even faster than Internet years, so there’s been time not only for the forcible injection of AI into the workplace courtesy of Microsoft, but the first scientific studies of the effect. Productivity may not have gone up, but anxiety, confusion and annoyance most certainly have.…

Modder crams working hardware into plastic shell and fires up Tetris An enterprising nerd has taken LEGO's new Game Boy creation, performed some suitably geeky magic, and turned it into a real Game Boy.…

Even a wrong answer is right some of the time AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models.…

We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming opinion  To fight the enshittification of software, the first step is to pinpoint why and how it happens. Some observers are trying to do that.…

Cloudflare finds AI search biz ignoring crawl prohibitions and trying to hide its spiders Perplexity, an AI search startup, has been spotted trying to disguise its content-scraping bots while flouting websites' no-crawl directives.…

Community content site aims to profit from real conversation Reddit has found that trafficking in human-authored content pays well in the AI era.…

Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain Opinion  On June 10, social network Bluesky announced that in 15 days it would introduce age verification for UK users, to comply with the UK Online Safety Act. As this law threatens non-compliant content companies with eight-figure fines from July 25, you can see why. The how, however, is breathtakingly inexcusable.…

A virtual environment makes a great de-hype advisor Opinion  In human imagination, AIs have been good for two things: trying to take over, and loving a good game. The earliest post-war AI thinkers took it almost for granted that once computers could beat humans at chess, true artificial intelligence would have arrived. Such thinking was disproved 50 years on when IBM's Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997. Computers could be very, very good at chess while still having the IQ of a pebble.…

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