Kind: Reads

Plus: Slouching toward a debt disaster.

Prompts are wholly insecure. They are holding back every attempt at turning language models into safe and reliable tools. Language models are not fit for purpose and should not be integrated into public-facing products unless the industry finds a new way to control them.

The rapidly growing field of "canine cognition" is revealing new insights about the often-enigmatic behaviors of our fabulous furry four-legged friends.

Rudy Giuliani, Timothy McVeigh, and Sexual Abuse by Teri Kanefield

Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin, opens by comparing the January 6 attack on the Capitol to McVeigh’s attack on Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. (Notice the small “No Trespassing” sign on the book’s cover. Perfect.) As recounted in Homegrown, McVeigh was calm when his lawyer visited him in prison. He was certain that the attack …

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The state can now kidnap kids in Florida.

The bill proposes a fine of $1500.

I continue to work through my worries about where whe are. I’m still thinking about where I stand in an industry that no longer seems to care about what it makes.

A wider lens on the American College of Pediatricians. Recent subpoenas by Republican state governments against trans-supportive professional and medical organizations In 2022 and 2023, professional organizations endorsing gender-affirming care received extensive subpoenas from the states of Alabama and Florida … Continue reading →

Montana’s TikTok ban will be impossible to enforce. But it could encourage copycat crackdowns against the social media app.

Milo Evan Dorbert, whose mother’s pregnancy tested the interpretation of Florida’s new abortion law, was born with a fatal abnormality. He lived 99 minutes.

Twitter demands Microsoft audit a month after Musk declared, "Lawsuit time."

A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on malicious links. From a report: Two weeks ago, Google added eight new TLDs to the Internet, bringing ...

Johann Rehberger provides a screenshot of the first working proof of concept I've seen of a prompt injection attack against ChatGPT Plugins that demonstrates exfiltration of private data. He uses …

Ryan Reynolds Getty Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images In the modern age of technology, there are certain technological advancements that are quickly changing the world and leaving civilians absolutely dumbfounded. Of course, one of these advancements just so happens to relate to the concept of Deepf...

Some clarifications

Plus: A centrist surge?

Ironically, that puts them in the minority.

The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.

We need to talk about Rudy. Honestly, I wish we didn’t, at least not under these lurid and frankly gross circumstances. Rudy Giuliani, the former attorney to ex-president Trump, is in the spotlight again, this time as the defendant in a sexual assault, sexual harassment and wage theft

Yes, you can. Most small communities on the web don’t have major problems with abuse, because they are well managed and well moderated. But the majority of marginalized people endure abuse online…