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What Happened When Conspiracy Theorists Talked to OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo?(2025-03-02 15:00:08)

A "decision science partner" at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists: Researchers have struggled for decades to develop techniques to weaken th...
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Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer's API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation(2025-03-02 10:00:11)

A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users' systems "into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads," writes The Hacker News. Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it enabled "coordinated, unauthorized music downloa...
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Watch 'Blue Ghost' Attempt Its Landing on the Moon(2025-03-02 05:00:04)

Watch the "Blue Ghost" lunar lander attempt its moon landing. The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while "The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after..." Success is not guaranteed... [B]roadly speaking, about half...
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27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?(2025-03-02 00:00:10)

Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in...
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Microsoft Outage Leaves Tens of Thousands Unable to Access Email and Other Apps(2025-03-01 20:00:15)

"Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon," reports CNBC: "We're investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services," Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, sa...
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