Trump’s revenge cuts to science funding cannot be understood without reflection on how stupidly partisan, identitarian and ideological academia has become in the last generation. Science needs to become anti ideological again. The return from “my truth” to veritas will be hard.
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MCP servers security risks: protecting user data from theft
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Right now users are being encouraged to mix and match MCP servers in a way that makes it trivial for people to steal their data – we are unfairly outsourcing decisions on how to stay secure to people who haven't got a fighting chance of staying safe
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Flawed AI Security Mitigations Encourage Inherently Insecure Systems
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When it comes to security I think flawed mitigations are actually harmful, because they encourage developers to build systems that are inherently insecure and can never be made safe for their users There are a LOT of things being built right now that should not be built
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LLM Safety: Why Current Development Approaches Are Insufficient
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That's the whole problem. We are developing software against LLMs in the same way we use SQL: we write our own instructions as a programmer, then we combine them with input from our users With SQL we can do that safely. With LLMs we can't
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Prompt Injection Filter Risks vs Spam Filter Consequences
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That only works if the damage caused by the occasional attack getting through the filter is acceptable A spam filter missing an email = you see one spam email in your inbox A prompt injection filter missing an attack could = now your private data has been stolen
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Using LLM-Generated Code Without Review: Naming the Practice
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That's what I want it to mean, yes – I think it's really useful to have a name for "I got an LLM to write code that I just used without even reviewing it or caring about the code"
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Natural Birth Outperforms Multibillion-Dollar LLM Models
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You can make a baby for free, and the result is still better than a multibillion-dollar LLM.
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Half-billion views: AI blurs reality and fiction globally
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This video has received half a billion views on TikTok. It appeared in newspapers such as the German magazine “Der Spiegel” and caused a worldwide scare: it was the moment when literally almost a billion people realized that they could no longer separate reality and fiction, AI… https://t.co/uzBAQijP89
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 31 juillet 2025This video has received half a billion views on TikTok. It appeared in newspapers such as the German magazine “Der Spiegel” and caused a worldwide scare: it was the moment when literally almost a billion people realized that they could no longer separate reality and fiction, AI
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Origin of Experts in Scientific Project Breakdown
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The Origin of Experts in the Breakdown of the Scientific Project
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Human Brain Complexity Compared to Spaghetti Code
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If you don't like spaghetti code, you should see the contents of your brain.