Fake statistics site tricks AI search engines into citing made-up data
An experiment by a digital marketing researcher showed that a website containing 50,000 entirely fabricated statistics pages was repeatedly cited by ChatGPT and other AI models, while remaining largely invisible to Google search.
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A recent experience with setting up FreshRSS on a NixOS server was described by the author, who noted that such an installation would not have been attempted a year ago without NixOS experience.
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Fake virus alerts are almost always scams designed to trick users into downloading malware or handing over money, according to cybersecurity researchers.
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Reliable Robotics has received a $115 million funding extension to support its efforts to certify an autonomous flight system with the Federal Aviation Administration.
» readOpenAI improves AI models’ ability to handle outdated programming languages for bank system upgrades
A new report from OpenAI shows that its latest models have become significantly better at working with and migrating software written in older programming languages such as COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic.
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