New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"
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Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
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"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
"321 postgraduate programmes within the field of social sciences were closed for the 2026-27 cycle."
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A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role.
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All jokes at WW's expense aside, the world of academic nutrition really does have *a lot* to answer for in helping to create a non-trivial amount of health/nutrition misinformation, and a little introspection would be welcome.
They are doing the thing now with "ultra-processed foods", which will also pass, and then they will do the next thing and the next thing, all while nothing about public health nutrition changes because the largest barriers to progress rest on policy and implementation, not new knowledge
Tbh if we just banned all social media for all ages, the world would probably be a happier place 🤷
I - for one - would certainly have a lot more time on my hands!
EU court of justice ruling:
"the operator of an information society service cannot be
exempted from its liability for the information stored and rebroadcast...
"(Including) where the
operator determines, by means of an algorithm, under what conditions... that
information is or is not rebroadcast"
More than 300 social sciences programmes lost in past year, figures show, as critics bemoan decisions made on enrolment numbers alone
www.timeshighereducation.com
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.
