Month: December 2024

Aufgrund eines Serverausfalls hat das elektronische Jura-Examen in Mannheim mit 90 Minuten Verspätung begonnen. Auch danach ist nicht alles rund gelaufen. (Technik/Hardware, Computer)

Gerendert auf unangekündigter Geforce-GPU, Unreal Engine 5: CD Projekt Red zeigt The Witcher 4 mit Ciri als neuer Hauptfigur. (The Witcher, Rollenspiel)

Dieser praxisnahe Workshop zeigt, wie Unternehmen nachhaltige IT-Strategien umsetzen, Kosten senken und regulatorische Anforderungen wie die CSRD erfüllen können. (Golem Karrierewelt, Server-Applikationen)

Dynabook’s new Portégé X30W-M is a compact convertible notebook with a 13.3 inch touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge, and a magnesium alloy chassis. The notebook has a starting weight under 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) and comes with a choice of Intel Core Ultra U or H-series processor options. The notebook supports up to 32GB of […]

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The Supernote A5 X2 Manta is a new E Ink tablet with a 10.7 inch display, support for pen input for writing and drawing, and a modular design that makes it easier to repair than most devices in the ever-expanding category of E Ink tablets designed for writing. Details about the Supernote Manta began making the […]

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Large language models have found great success so far by using their transformer architecture to effectively predict the next words (i.e., language tokens) needed to respond to queries. When it comes to complex reasoning tasks that require abstract logic, though, some researchers have found that interpreting everything through this kind of "language space" can start to cause some problems, even for modern "reasoning" models.

Now, researchers are trying to work around these problems by crafting models that can work out potential logical solutions completely in "latent space"—the hidden computational layer just before the transformer generates language. While this approach doesn't cause a sea change in an LLM's reasoning capabilities, it does show distinct improvements in accuracy for certain types of logical problems and shows some interesting directions for new research.

Wait, what space?

Modern reasoning models like ChatGPT's o1 tend to work by generating a "chain of thought." Each step of the logical process in these models is expressed as a sequence of natural language word tokens which are fed back through the model.

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Following a pair of lawsuits alleging that chatbots caused a teen boy's suicide, groomed a 9-year-old girl, and caused a vulnerable teen to self-harm, Character.AI (C.AI) has announced a separate model just for teens, ages 13 and up, that's supposed to make their experiences with bots safer.

In a blog, C.AI said it took a month to develop the teen model, with the goal of guiding the existing model "away from certain responses or interactions, reducing the likelihood of users encountering, or prompting the model to return, sensitive or suggestive content."

C.AI said "evolving the model experience" to reduce the likelihood kids are engaging in harmful chats—including bots allegedly teaching a teen with high-functioning autism to self-harm and delivering inappropriate adult content to all kids whose families are suing—it had to tweak both model inputs and outputs.

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Valve has begun selling refurbished Steam Deck OLED models for 20% off the list price. That means you can pick up a model with 512GB of storage for $439 (rather than the list price of $549) or a 1TB model for $519 (down from $649). While these are pre-owned devices, Valve tests them thoroughly to […]

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Thousands of sites running WordPress remain unpatched against a critical security flaw in a widely used plugin that was being actively exploited in attacks that allow for unauthenticated execution of malicious code, security researchers said.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-11972, is found in Hunk Companion, a plugin that runs on 10,000 sites that use the WordPress content management system. The vulnerability, which carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10, was patched earlier this week. At the time this post went live on Ars, figures provided on the Hunk Companion page indicated that less than 12 percent of users had installed the patch, meaning nearly 9,000 sites could be next to be targeted.

Significant, multifaceted threat

“This vulnerability represents a significant and multifaceted threat, targeting sites that use both a ThemeHunk theme and the Hunk Companion plugin,” Daniel Rodriguez, a researcher with WordPress security firm WP Scan, wrote. “With over 10,000 active installations, this exposed thousands of websites to anonymous, unauthenticated attacks capable of severely compromising their integrity.”

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AT&T and Verizon reportedly are not notifying most customers whose call records were stolen in the ongoing attack attributed to Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon. NBC News reported today that "the vast majority of people whose call records have been stolen by Chinese hackers have not been notified, according to industry sources, and there is no indication that most affected people will be notified in the near future."

US government officials said last week that major telecom companies have been unable to fully evict the Chinese state-sponsored hackers from their networks. There have been direct notifications to specific targets, such as government officials, whose calls were listened to and whose text messages were accessed. "President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President-elect JD Vance, senior congressional staffers and an array of US security officials were among scores of individuals to have their calls and texts directly targeted," The Wall Street Journal wrote.

For most other victims, the data accessed apparently didn't include the contents of communications. It instead consisted of metadata like the numbers that phones called and when. These people are not receiving notifications from carriers, NBC News wrote today:

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