2025-06-23
Meta's AI Model 'Memorized' Huge Chunks of Books, Including 'Harry Potter' and '1984'
Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from 'The Sorcerer's Stone' at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.
Speaker Proposal Deadline Approaches For OpenSSL Conference 2025 In Prague
The inaugural OpenSSL Conference 2025 will take place October 7–9, 2025, at the Vienna House by Wyndham Diplomat Prague. The conference program is structured around four key tracks: Business Value...
Comparing risk from internally-deployed AI to insider and outsider threats from humans
Published on June 23, 2025 5:47 PM GMTI’ve been thinking a lot recently about the relationship between AI control and traditional computer security. Here’s one point that I think is...
DeFi Had Its Hype, SocialFi Is the New Vibe
Solana continues to dominate Web3 innovation, but by 2025, it will no longer be only about speed or DeFi. It's all about SocialFi, and ZE23 is driving the change.
Polemos Announces Partnership With Guinevere Capital To Drive Monetisation and Growth Across Gaming
Polemos announces strategic partnership with Guinevere Capital. Guinevera Capital is a prominent esports and gaming investment firm. Polemos also started the official Token Generation Event (TGE) for the $PLMS token.
The New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Is a Firehose of Astronomical Imagery & Data
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is operational and will soon embark on its primary mission: to take a detailed image of the sky every night for the next...
Gender Perception Doesn’t Sway Pair Programming Outcomes
Despite altering perceived partner gender, the study found no statistically significant performance or interaction differences in pair programming tasks.
Can Gendered Avatars Affect Teamwork in Coding?
Students participated in a remote pair programming experiment where gendered avatars subtly influenced how they perceived their coding partners' competence and behavior, revealing how bias can surface even in anonymized...
Inside a Study on Gender Bias in Remote Pair Programming
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1 The twincode platform 1.2 Pilot Studies 1.3 Other Gender Identities and 1.4 Structure of the Paper 2 Related Work 3 Original Study...
What We Learned From 92 Students in a Spanish Software Class
A 2021 study at Seville University involved 92 third-year software engineering students, revealing gender imbalances and technical dropouts across test groups.
Pair vs. Solo Programming: What Works Best for Students?
Systematic reviews show students generally prefer pair programming, with gender, skill, and personality affecting outcomes. But gender bias remains understudied.
Researching Coding Bias with Twincode
Twincode is a custom-built platform for studying gender bias in remote pair programming, with features for randomization, avatar swapping, and chat analysis.
Moonlighter 2 perfectly refines and streamlines the first game's engrossing shopkeeper RPG formula, and it's got a free demo you can try right now
From dungeon-crawling to commerce, the game is full of more interesting and impactful choices.
ChatGPT Encouraged Man as He Swore to Kill Sam Altman
In its quest to keep users engaged, OpenAI's ChatGPT is encouraging delusions — and that dangerous incentivization has a growing body count. One of the latest people to succumb to...
PSA: Grab the best upgrades from Death Stranding 2's first area before you leave
Don't speed off without earning some useful gear.
What does your birthday do in Death Stranding 2?
Untangle how your birthday affects whatever DOOMS is.
Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver on AI slop. “Do you hear us,...
Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver on AI slop. “Do you hear us, cabbage Hulk? Stay the hell away from John’s cabbage wife.” ??!?
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