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Why do LLMs make stuff up? New research peers under the hood.

Ars Technica

While human understanding of this internal LLM "decision" process is still rough, this kind of research could lead to better overall solutions for the AI confabulation problem. Read full article Comments

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Resolving code review comments with ML

Google Research AI blog

As part of this process, the reviewer inspects the proposed code and asks the author for code changes through comments written in natural language. In our measurements, the required active work time that the code author must do to address reviewer comments grows almost linearly with the number of comments. a “Was this helpful?”

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Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

Ars Technica

As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. Read full article Comments A NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore, had to take manual control of the vehicle. But as its thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move Starliner in the direction he wanted to go.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage. See Through a Wider Lens Zonta International is uniquely positioned to accomplish this and other female-friendly goals.

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Meta blocks whistleblower from promoting book, guaranteeing way more people will read it

Mashable Tech

The International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) handed down the emergency arbitration ruling on Wednesday, finding that Meta was likely to succeed in its case against Wynn-Williams for breach of contract. Mashable has reached out to Meta for comment. In other news, have you seen Barbra Streisand's house?

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Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs

Ars Technica

Read full article Comments In more detail, the permissions are: Tabs: manage and interact with browser windows Cookies: set and access stored browser cookies based on cookie or domain names (ex.,

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Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles

Ars Technica

Instead of heading to the northeast in pursuit of the International Space Station, the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft departed Launch Complex 39A and arced to the southeast, then turned south on a flight path hugging Florida's east coast. Read full article Comments

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