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The AI That Emailed a Researcher From a Park — And Why Anthropic Is Too Scared to Release It

  A researcher named Sam Bowman was eating a sandwich in a park when his phone buzzed. It was an email. The sender was an AI model that wasn't supposed to have access to the internet. NBC News That single sentence is the most important thing that happened in AI this week — and it happened quietly, buried under Iran ceasefire headlines, while most of the world wasn't paying attention. The model was Claude Mythos Preview. The company that built it is Anthropic. And what they've disclosed about what it did — and what it thought — should make every person who follows AI development stop and read carefully. What Anthropic Built Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. The Next Web That's the headline. But the...

What is Google Social Search and how does it work?

Firstly, let's answer the question, what is Google Social Search? While using Google some of the answers displayed after you enter a search query are "Results from people in your social circle". Let's break this down a little further. These results are from people you are in contact with either on Twitter, Gmail, Google Buzz etc. The purpose behind this is that you might want to read and find out info from people you are in contact with and therefore trust, rather than information provided by strangers. The reasoning behind this rungs quiet deep. Search has been constantly changing and people now want to know what is the best camera to buy from their Twitter and Facebook friends. Search has been evolving and so has Google. So when your type a search query and a social friend of yours already has a blog post of a Twitter update that is relevant, it shows up in your Google search results. So in addition to the usual Google results, you also see relevant results from peo...

Google Voice: How does it work

What is Google Voice and how does it work? Google voice is a soft phone integrated into your Gmail inbox, currently available only in the US and Canada. With Google Voice you can now make and receive phone calls right from your Gmail account. Google voice gives you one number for all your phones  voicemail as easy as email, free US long distance, low rates on international calls. So let's say you have three numbers your friends can contact you on, a mobile number, a home number and an office number. To contact you your friends might sometimes need to call all three numbers. In an event you are unable to pick the call it goes into voice mail. If a voice mail is left it will last on any of your three phones for two weeks and is automatically deleted. So, you would need to dial all three phones before you can hear your voice mail. All this is set to change with Google Voice. Google Voice gives you one number which can be used on any phone and does not depend on the carrier you use. So...

Amplify: How does it work

What is Amplify and how does it work? Amplify is a service that allows you to autopost to Facebook, Google Buzz, Posterous ,Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger,Ping.fm, Plurk, Friendfeed, Diigo, Delicious, Bit.ly URL Shortening.  The idea behind the service is to allow old fashioned conversation by clippings things off the net and sharing it. You can amplify it by adding your thoughts and start conversations around topics of interest to you and your friends. You can share news, videos and just about anything. The service has a Twitter style box just bigger with HTML options that allow you to autoshare with your other social network connections on sites like Twitter and Facebook. There is also a Facebook styled Newsfeed to keep up with what's going on.  There have been new features that have been added today to the service. 1. Live Feeds: The Amplify Newsfeed now updates in real-time so that new posts stream in without you ever having to refresh the page. 2. Mentions: One of the most import...

GetGlue: How does it work

What is GetGlue and how does it work. GetGlue is a entertainment based social network and is available for Android and the iPhone. The iPad version will be coming soon. Once you get the App you can rate  movies, music, stars, shows etc. See reviews by your friends and get recommendations. GetGlue currently has more than 4.5M new unique ratings and check-ins for tv shows, movies, music and books every month. GetGlue users rate and check-in to things they like to get recommendations and earn rewards and stickers. The main features for the App include. Check-in to tv shows, movies, music, games, and books Share check-ins with your Twitter and Facebook friends See what your friends are currently watching, reading or listening to Earn leaderboard points and get stickers from GetGlue and major brands Rate lists of popular shows, movies, music and books Get suggestions for weekly new releases and old favorites picked just for you Take your favorite entertainment and suggestions with you every...

Twitter launches who to follow: Get more followers and find new ones to follow

Twitter has launched "who to follow" worldwide. It was rolled out in stages and now everyone has got who to follow. If you Tweet with regularity and are consistent. Twitter is definitely going to recommend Tweeps to follow you. This also ensure that a lot of active accounts are now going to get a huge number of followers. The best part is if you are looking for who to follow and you see someone recommended to you in the sidebar. you can follow from right there. You do not need to go the person's personal page to follow the user. If you want more than the two suggestions that are bing shown you can click on the "View All" to get a whole list of new people for you to discover and follow. Facebook and Linkedin already have this feature and it has been functional for a long time. Facebook suggests you friends you might already know and Linkedin shows you professional people you might be connected with through your contacts. Twitter however is a little different as i...

Top 3 most liked Facebook pages

The 3 most popular pages are growing at an incredibly fast speed. There are three top 3 pages and the number of people who have clicked the thumbs up Facebook Like button on these pages are staggering. So here goes with our new top 3. 1. Lady Gaga has over 14 billions fans 2. President Obama has over 11 billion fans 3. Twilight now has more than 10 billion fans There you have it the most popular Facebook pages. Well things don't always stay the same on Facebook and we can expect to see some changes soon.  Following close behind is the YouTube fan page on Facebook that already has over 10 billion fans just a little short of The Vampires page. YouTube is trying very hard to get to number one, they are also asking everybody to go to their page and click the like button. An original post by Sociolatte

Google Sync: How does it work

Google Sync is a cloud based service that works with BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia, Windows Mobile and Symbian Platforms and most other phones that are SyncML capable. Google Sync keeps your phone's address book in sync with your Google Gmail contacts. You can Sync two phones together and thereby both phones will have the same contacts automatically. Which also helps you to transfer contacts from one phone to the other without any difficulty. If you wondering how to transfer contacts from one phone to the other especially if you've got a new phones and would like to update the device with all your contacts. You can also sync you phone with your PC. Since it is a cloud based service once you change, add, delete contacts in one device, both the devices will get updated automatically. Android based phones can sync with Google contacts out of the box.  Google Sync will help your synchronize your phone's built in address book and calender with your Google accounts. Once you setup Sy...

Wikileaks: How does it work

This post seeks to shed light on What is Wikileaks and how does it work.  Wikileaks is constantly in the news. Newspapers, blogs and TV channels are covering it relentlessly. So what is Wikileaks? WikiLeaks is a multi-jurisdictional public service designed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists who have sensitive materials to communicate to the public.  This material being leaded on Wikileaks is essentially material that powerful men and governments would not want leaked to the general public.  How does WikiLeaks operate? "WikiLeaks combines the protection and anonymity of cutting-edge cryptographic technologies with the comfortable presentation style of Wikipedia, although the two are not otherwise related. Our network also collects materials in person and from postal drops. We also run a network of lawyers and others to defend our work and our sources. WikiLeaks information is distributed across many jurisdictions, organizations and individuals. Once a document pu...

Facebook: What is the difference between a business account and a user profile?

Business accounts are created for individual who only want to administer pages and their Facebook Ad campaigns. Business account are for those individuals who represent companies or their own business interests no FB. They are not there to mingle and become a part of Facebook but to generate buzz through pages and their Ad campaigns. So like any other normal user account they will not be able to able to view profiles of users or any other content on the site that does not live on their pages. Business accounts cannot be found in search and cannot send and receive friend requests. A Business account is purely related to the individuals pages that they administer and Ad campaigns they may be running on Facebook. An original post by Sociolatte