Trump names cryptocurrencies in strategic reserve, sending prices up
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA. She's still being held 25 days later, after nine days in solitary confinenent, a violation of the agency's own internal detention standards which “generally limit detention in these facilities to 72 hours.” An inspections of four short-term facilities in San Diego and El Centro found that of the 447 migrants detained in all four stations, 42% of them exceeded the 72-hour standard, with some being there for more than 20 days.
Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders
RFK Jr. canceled flu vaccine meetings. What does that mean for fall shots?
RFK Jr. issues rule barring public comment on HHS rulemaking
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday released a policy prohibiting public comments during his department’s rulemaking process, ending more than 50 years of the public’s involvement in crafting his department’s rules.
US Cyber Command reportedly pauses cyberattacks on Russia
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered US Cyber Command to pause offensive operations against Russia.
US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon.
OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
But it doesn't hallucinate as much as the company's other LLMs.
GPT-4o, a purportedly advanced "reasoning" model, hallucinates 61.8 percent of the time on the SimpleQA benchmark. OpenAI's o3-mini, a cheaper and smaller version of its reasoning model, was found to hallucinate a whopping 80.3 percent of the time.
Police behaving badly
Police officers and employees misusing access to
police database now account for over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK. The harms this can cause are considerable.
Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened to allow
for greater access to communication data.
New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
Diffusion-based models like Mercury produce entire responses simultaneously, refining them from an initially masked state into coherent text. This allows the model to refine outputs and address mistakes because it isn't limited to considering only previously generated text. The results are comparable to GPT-4o Mini, but are generated 19 times faster.