Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...
Microsoft

OAuth redirection abuse enables phishing and malware delivery

OAuth redirection is being repurposed as a phishing delivery path. Trusted authentication flows are weaponized to move users ...
The Hacker News

Microsoft Warns OAuth Redirect Abuse Delivers Malware to Government Targets

While some of the campaigns have been found to leverage the technique to deliver malware, others send users to pages hosted on phishing frameworks such as EvilProxy, which act as an ...
InfoWorld

19 large language models redefining AI safety—and danger

Whether you are looking for an LLM with more safety guardrails or one completely without them, someone has probably built it.
InfoWorld

19 large language models for safety or danger

These new models are specially trained to recognize when an LLM is potentially going off the rails. If they don’t like how an interaction is going, they have the power to stop it. Of course, every ...
The Verge

Why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs?

It may seem like a secret code, but the answer might be an oddly specific technical error. It may seem like a secret code, but the answer might be an oddly specific ...
Microsoft

Inside Tycoon2FA: How a leading AiTM phishing kit operated at scale

Tycoon2FA has become a leading phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platforms, enabling campaigns that reach over 500,000 organizations monthly, prompting Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) to work with ...
eLife

Boosting the signal: Expectation-driven gain modulation of preparatory spatial attention

The evidence is solid but not definitive, as the conclusions rely on the absence of changes in spatial breadth and would benefit from clearer statistical justification and a more cautious ...
eLife

Pupil size reveals the perceptual quality and effortless nature of synesthesia

This study used pupillometry to provide an objective assessment of a form of synesthesia in which people see additional color when reading numbers. It provides convincing evidence that subjective ...
Nature

Neural encoding articles from across Nature Portfolio

Neural encoding is the study of how neurons represent information with electrical activity (action potentials) at the level of individual cells or in networks of neurons. Studies of neural encoding ...
Investopedia

Error Term: Definition, Example, and How to Calculate With Formula

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Investopedia

Errors and Omissions Insurance: What It Is, How It Works, and Who Needs It

Marianne Bonner, CPCU, ARM, covers business insurance topics for Investopedia, building on 30 years of experience working in the insurance industry. She has written extensively for The Risk Report, ...