Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org
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Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
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Joined Nov 2022
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Today's scoop: xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
An employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's companies, including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter/X, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
GitGuardian's Eric Fourrier told KrebsOnSecurity the exposed API key had access to several unreleased models of Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI. In total, GitGuardian found the key had access to at least 60 distinct data sets.
"The credentials can be used to access the X.ai API with the identity of the user," GitGuardian wrote in an email explaining their findings to xAI. "The associated account not only has access to public Grok models (grok-2-1212, etc) but also to what appears to be unreleased (grok-2.5V), development (research-grok-2p5v-1018), and private models (tweet-rejector, grok-spacex-2024-11-04)."
Fourrier found GitGuardian had alerted the xAI employee about the exposed API key nearly two months ago -- on March 2. But as of April 30, when GitGuardian directly alerted xAI's security team to the exposure, the key was still valid and usable. xAI told GitGuardian to report the matter through its bug bounty program at HackerOne, but just a few hours later the repository containing the API key was removed from GitHub.
Read more: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-dev-leaks-api-key-for-private-spacex-tesla-llms/
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Use this 5-word response to shut down rude behavior—it’s like ‘holding up a mirror,’ says public speaking expert
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@chrisamaphone I love it. Also a big fan of molleindustria
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i found these slides for a talk i gave in 2021 (when i had a very different research focus) and god damn i really did try to write an entire academic book in the space of one talk huh https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xYo_Eb0bwH6wlBUrlJpWoHFbTH0nSeyDRF-BEIVGg8Y/edit?usp=sharing
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Great news! Our paper submission deadline was extended
D-SAIL focuses on transformative curriculum design through the lens of data science, AI, and sustainable innovation in education, governance and law
Topics include:
- Innovative Pedagogical Frameworks
- AI & Data Analytics for Adaptive Learning
- Sustainability & Digitalisation in Education
- Human-AI Collaboration in Learning Design
- Interdisciplinary Curriculum Integration
- Ethical & Societal Implications in EdTech & Policy
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AI doomers are also to blame for a historic labor shortage
"Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton said that machine learning would outperform radiologists within five years. That was eight years ago. Now, thanks in part to doomers, we’re facing a historic labor shortage."
https://newrepublic.com/article/187203/ai-radiology-geoffrey-hinton-nobel-prediction
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We are happy to announce that as part of the project #MetaLing we are also inviting Francesco Periti from #kuleuven. He will tell us about his work on #semanticChange with #LLMs. The event is taking place online tomorrow at 14:30 CEST.
https://dllcm.unimi.it/it/modeling-semantic-change-through-large-language-models
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S for Stop
I for Investigate the source
F for Find better coverage
T for Trace the claim to its original context
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@euractiv Kremlin assets unite...
@rao2z.bsky.social presents an extremely interesting evaluation of LLMs' ability to reason. His team had been doing this research for a while now, but now with the emergence of Large Reasoning Models, finally there is some notable progress
His post on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/rao2z.bsky.social/post/3lmplm3ogkk2l
The preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
Bloem has seen it before — the same pattern playing out in slow motion. “Asbestos,” he says “Lead in gasoline. Tobacco. Every time, we acted decades after the damage was done.” The science existed. The evidence had accumulated. But the decision to intervene always lagged. “It’s not that we don’t know enough,” he adds. “It’s that the system is not built to listen when the answers are inconvenient.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-parkinsons-pesticides-mptp-glyphosate-paraquat/
...and this is how German authorities address the problem:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/germany-orders-deportation-of-pro-palestine-activists-what-you-should-know
If you don't see the violation in the article, that's right. They are worried about graffiti and a verbal offence committed in an attempt to protest the explicitly declared refusal to acknowledge "the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts" (as per ICC).
This is what so many European governments are failing to condemn. At this stage it becomes complicity. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/children-gaza-hunger-aid-blockade-israel-rcna201085
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #WarCrimes
Microsoft are so desperate to find an use case for copilot, that they are pushing hard for a new prevasive "service" nobody wants in order to achieve a full-scale mass surveillance.
If you are still using Windows (or any other Microsoft product), remember it's never too late to switch.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/
Politically, now would be a good time to recognise Palestine, but the reality is that it's easier for spineless politicians across the globe to procrastinate.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/mapping-which-countries-recognise-palestine-in-2025
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House Democrats put a half dozen "safe" GOP seats to their 2026 target list https://t.co/MItEtY4l6n
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Reminder: our department at the University of #Lausanne currently has an opening for a junior lecturer (#postdoc) in computational humanities.
Knowledge of French (B2 level) is required for teaching.
Check out the official job posting (in French) for details.
#DigitalHumanities #HumanitésNumériques #ComputationalHumanities #job #AcademicJob #PostdocJob
https://mastodon.acm.org/@mxp/114257717569887339
@edgren @gabrielesvelto do you use these from the web interface or an app? I'm not a list user yet, and am trying to understand how I can use them.
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Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/
Joined Nov 2022
