What Modern PCs Have Lost: The System Called BASIC

In the old days, when you turned on a PC, you were prompted to write a program.It was Spartan. It was forced programming ...
HackerNoon

Researchers Decrypt Hidden Chain-of-Thought From OpenAI, Anthropic and Google APIs

Interchangeable encrypted reasoning blocks let attackers decode hidden chain-of-thought and leak PII and credentials from ...
HackerNoon

Secure Code Benchmark Finds Top Coding Agents Write Secure Code Only 25% of the Time

A 450-task benchmark built from real CVEs shows even the best AI coding agent writes code that's both working and secure only ...
The Economist

World in Brief: China’s healthy GDP growth; France’s cabinet gathers over protests

China’s GDP grew by 4.5% year on year in the third quarter, a touch higher than analysts’ expectations of 4.4%. Retail sales rose by 1.1% in September, up from 0.4% in August. The better-than-expected ...
The Economist

World in Brief: Trump open to Putin-Xi meeting; France enforces curfews

Donald Trump said he was open to meeting Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping to discuss ending the war in Ukraine—whether the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is “there or not”. Mr Trump suggested ...

Why did editing 0.016% of AI weights increase math performance by 6x? The mechanics and configuration secrets of the MIT study

Conclusion: The 0.016% weight edit fixed "premature termination due to thinking loops," and even unedited models can reach an accuracy of 44.0%–49.7% simply by switching to the official non-thinking ...