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Many of the latest large language models (LLMs) are designed to remember details from past conversations or store user profiles, enabling these models to personalize responses.But researchers from MIT and Penn State University found that, over long conversations, such personalization features often increase the likelihood an LLM will become overly agreeable or begin mirroring the individual’s point of view.This phenomenon, known as sycophancy, can prevent a model from telling a user they are wrong, eroding the accuracy of the LLM’s responses. In addition, LLMs that mirror someone’s political beliefs or worldview can foster misinformation and distort a user’s perception of…

There’s something very soothing about Harry Styles’ mellifluous voice. So soothing, in fact, that you’ll soon be able to hear him read you a bedtime story.The One Direction star has voiced a sleep-encouraging story for meditation app Calm and you’ll be able to listen to it from July 8. If you’ve ever had any trouble nodding off to sleep, you might already be familiar with Calm’s Sleep Stories, which launched back in 2016 and have a range of star-studded narrators, including Nick Offerman, Lucy Liu, Stephen Fry, and Matthew McConaughey. And, if you haven’t heard of the magical wonders of…

The Hacker NewsFeb 17, 2026Cloud Security / Digital Forensics Cloud attacks move fast — faster than most incident response teams. In data centers, investigations had time. Teams could collect disk images, review logs, and build timelines over days. In the cloud, infrastructure is short-lived. A compromised instance can disappear in minutes. Identities rotate. Logs expire. Evidence can vanish before analysis even begins. Cloud forensics is fundamentally different from traditional forensics. If investigations still rely on manual log stitching, attackers already have the advantage. Register: See Context-Aware Forensics in Action ➜ Why Traditional Incident Response Fails in the Cloud Most teams…

Spanish authorities will investigate the social media companies Meta Platforms Inc., X Corp. and TikTok to determine if they’ve spread child sexual abuse material generated by artificial intelligence. The investigation follows a broader push by European countries to regulate what has often been called the “Wild West” of social media platforms. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wrote on X today that the “platforms are undermining the mental health, dignity, and rights of our children.” He added, “The state cannot allow this. The impunity of these giants must end.” The probe comes after a report that detailed potential criminal wrongdoing regarding the…

Introduction Large language models (LLMs) have evolved from simple statistical language predictors into intricate systems capable of reasoning, synthesizing information and even interacting with external tools. Yet most people still see them as auto‑complete engines rather than the modular, evolving architectures they’ve become. Understanding how these models are built is vital for anyone deploying AI: it clarifies why certain models perform better on long documents or multi‑modal tasks and how you can adapt them with minimal compute using tools like Clarifai. Quick Summary Question: What is LLM architecture and why should we care? Answer: Modern LLM architectures are layered systems…

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. All data sourced from Labour Force in Singapore 2025, released last month by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Manpower, the number of Singaporean workers (citizens and permanent residents) employed full-time and earning an average of S$10,000 per month (in this case, figures provided by MOM exclude employers’ CPF contributions) has gone up by 31,200 people, to 404,900 in just a year. That’s an impressive jump of 8.3%, on the back of very strong GDP growth, which hit 5%…

Scores are just noise without intent. The best lead scoring methods for saas marketing find the signal where others see only data. This isn’t another what-is lead scoring guide. If you’ve spent five minutes in SaaS marketing, you already know that a whitepaper download is worth five points and a pricing page visit is worth twenty. You know that firmographics matter. You know the acronyms (MQL, SQL, PQL) by heart. The problem? Most SaaS companies are still scoring leads like we were in 2015. They are treating the buyer’s journey like a linear assembly line when, in reality, it mimics…

As artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) accelerate the pace of discovery, research teams are grappling with an unprecedented surge in data volume, velocity and complexity. What once could be validated through manual checks now spans millions of records, diverse sources and automated pipelines.  ” The risk is that systemic issues can propagate across entire research outputs. In this environment, maintaining trust in research requires approaches that scale with the technology driving it.” An Actionable Framework for Automating Research Integrity Validation Automating data validation and research integrity monitoring involves defining what “trust” looks like across machine-driven research pipelines.…

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas (left), CEO, and Maxim Fateev, CTO. (Temporal Photo) Temporal has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round at a $5 billion valuation, positioning the company as a key infrastructure provider for the emerging wave of AI agents moving into real-world production. The latest round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, doubles the company’s valuation from October. Temporal builds open-source software and a cloud service that helps companies run long-running, complex workflows reliably — what it calls “durable execution.” The Bellevue, Wash.-based company says that as AI systems become more autonomous and take actions across multiple services,…

Well, the ESP32 Bluetooth bridge experiment was a complete failure. Not the radios themselves, they’re actually pretty cool, but there’s just no way I could get the Yale locks to be reliably operated by them. At a guess, BLE is a bit too passive to detect state changes, and unless it was awake and communicating, it just had no idea what was happening with the locks. So, I’ve now silenced all lock-related alerts and am focusing on making the wifi network as reliable as possible in the hope the locks actually become responsive. If that doesn’t work, those Aqara U400s…