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WIRED Roundup: DHS's Privacy Breach, AI Romantic Affairs, and Google Sues Text Scammers

WIRED

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we discuss our scoop about how the Department of Homeland Security illegally collected Chicago residents' data for month, as well as the news of the week. In today's episode, host Zoรซ Schiffer is joined by executive editor Brian Barrett to discuss five stories you need to know about this week--from how AI affairs can now be grounds for divorce, to why Google is suing one of the largest networks of text scammers. Then, we dive into how the Department of Homeland Security illegally gathered the data of hundreds of Chicago residents. If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go This Is the Platform Google Claims Is Behind a'Staggering' Scam Text Operation AI Relationships Are on the Rise. Please help us improve Uncanny Valley by filling out our listener survey. Write to us at uncannyvalley@wired.com. You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link. Note: This is an automated transcript, which may contain errors. Today on the show, we're bringing you five stories that you need to know about this week, including our scoop about how the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, collected Chicago residents' data for months in violation of domestic espionage rules. I'm joined today by WIRED's executive editor Brian Barrett.




US military officials in Ukraine for talks on ending war

BBC News

Senior Pentagon officials have arrived in Ukraine to discuss efforts to end the war with Russia, the US military has said. The team, led by US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, is expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Thursday when he returns from a trip to Turkey. Reports began surfacing on Wednesday that the US and Russia had prepared a new peace plan, containing major concessions from Ukraine. Neither Washington nor Moscow has officially confirmed the plan. Earlier in the day, at least 26 people were killed in a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine's western city of Ternopil, officials there said.


Long-form factuality in large language models Jerry Wei 1 Chengrun Y ang 1 Xinying Song 1 Yifeng Lu

Neural Information Processing Systems

To benchmark a model's long-form factuality in open domains, we first use GPT -4 to generate LongFact, a prompt set comprising thousands of questions spanning 38 topics. We then propose that LLM agents can be used as automated evaluators for long-form factuality through a method which we call Search-Augmented Factuality Evaluator (SAFE).



First-ever human case of rare bird flu strain confirmed in western US

FOX News

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