Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI 'hallucination'), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it.

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You don't need to ask why American journalism is broken when major media companies pay $300,000 per year contracts for opinion voices like Ronna McDaniel and $200 per article for fact-based freelance journalism.

This is the 28th week in a row with more than 1,000 new COVID deaths in the U.S., or nearly 47,000 deaths during the same period

The river

Description of writer Evan Osnos' recent interview with Biden. Watch til the end. Either I'm totally high or this is disturbing shit. Both can't be true. Okay, I guess both can be true.

Devastating study in NEJM. Prospective study of 257 patients having carotid artery surgery: micro/nanoplastics (MNP) in 58% of atheromas & those w/ MNP present had 4.5x ⬆️ risk of stroke, heart attack, & death at mean of 34 mos follow-up. #MedTwitter nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Update: Cigna Healthcare after a peer to peer review Cigna Healthcare denied my request. It was denied by a family medicine practitioner who has never in their life treated a patient with leukemia. In what world are we living here? Cigna Healthcare is this how you treat your patients? Really? Do better!!

'Germany's Catholic bishops on Thursday urged the faithful to oppose rising far-right nationalism-- calling such politics opposed to the fundamental beliefs of Christianity.'

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Today's newsletter: I believe AI is racing Silicon Valley toward another dot com bust. Generative AI is too unreliable, has no path to profit, uses far too much energy, and cannot fix its core problem - that you just can't trust the things it creates.

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If you feel over & over like you have #COVID19 , even if you just had it a few wks ago, you may be right. We now have proof that after infection, some don’t clear the virus for months. Instead it stays in you, & ⬆️ levels of virus suggest it’s making copies of itself. #longCovid

Forever a part of football history.

❤️​ Andi Brehme.

new: noticed an uptick in bots on X? you're not alone.

new data provided to me by one cybersecurity firm found:

➡️ nearly 76% of traffic from X to its clients' sites was fake during Super Bowl weekend

no other platform came close to that

read more:
mashable.com/article/x-twit…