Daily Tech News 8 December 2024

• OpenAI has partnered with defense company Anduril, raising questions about the ethics of the company's senior management. (MSB)
  
  Easily answered: They don't have any.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT o1 has been caught lying in order to save itself from being shut down. (MSN)
  
  No, really? An LLM caught in a lie?

  More concerning still, ChatGPT o1 is particularly adept at keeping its schemes under wraps, as researchers said "o1 almost never admits to having taken a scheming action when explicitly asked." In about 99% of cases, o1 would deny taking any action, even cooking up lies to try to hide its tracks and shift the blame.

  LLMs are designed specifically as plausible lie generators. What exactly did you expect?
  
  
  

• iFixit now sells all the parts you need to repair your Xbox except. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Except for the tiny question of price. A motherboard costs $599. A new Xbox costs $499.
  
  
  
• The Ultralytics Python package was infected a crypto miner. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Ultralytics is a package for AI image processing - discriminative rather than generative - and is used by other software. If you have version 8.3.41 or 8.3.42, congratulations, you've been infected.
  
  Not as bad as the Solana library problem, but bad enough.
  
  Ultralytics is downloaded a quarter of a million times a day. What are you idiots doing?
  
  
  
• If the FSB - or indeed the FBI - returns your phone to you after confiscating it following your arrest on dubious grounds, smash it with a hammer. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Or if you're feeling brave, use it to throw off the scent while everything that matters is discussed on a brand new phone.
  
  
  
• Where's the Earth-shattering kaboom? (Space)
  
  The star T Coronae Borealis was expected to explode about now.
  
  It hasn't.
  
  

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