AI: Research paper finds ChatGPT has political biases
One of the dangers of generative AI is that people will use it's false answers or biased answers as "appeal to authority" justification for action.
Automation: Google says their AI can soon replace software engineers
Google can now see a time when coding is automated and human programmers “solve harder challenges.” Source: Google now sees a time when coding will be automated, rolls out AlphaCode…
Memory issues on the blog
I have several blogs running on a shared web server host. For several months, they have been offline 1-3% of the time – which is terrible uptime performance. Yesterday, the…
How the Lily Collins Facebook Hack May have worked
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
Follow up: “The winter COVID wave that wasn’t”
Despite projections the U.S. could see more than 100 million COVID-19 cases this fall and winter, the country did not experience a true winter wave for the first time. Source:…
Software: Dark patterns in UI design
Gee, see anything unusual in this user interface prompt at a web site I just visited?
Automation: “Low-Code Software: A Launchpad for Robotic Process Automation”
“Low code” is a way to develop applications – or control systems – and to accelerate development of automation solutions. “Low code” is faster than traditional software development and in…
No it isn’t: Missouri governor says viewing HTML source code containing private data the state published on every page, is a crime
Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security…
Software: The greatest software error in history?
In The Price of Panic, a detailed, albeit dated, overview of the world’s Covid-19 response, the authors note the use of Neil Ferguson’s ICL Covid simulator software – and its…
It’s worse than we thought: “Second Analysis of Ferguson’s Model”
In the past I had some comments on Neil Ferguson’s disease model and have repeatedly noted its poor quality. This model was used, last spring, as the basis for setting…