Sergey Budaev

Ordinary targeted ads now infect your computer or smartphone without even clicking. Citizen Lab has discovered the AdFection technique: ordinary ad networks have now become powerful spyware delivery channels. Here is how it works: the device receives an ad from Discover-Tech, which routes the victim through a Candiru verification server …

In spite of the continuing AI mania, there is a growing realisation of its harm. Here is a nice essay about the harms this kind of madness incurs on the industry:

And here is another piece on how …

As more and more investments are poured into the current AI, there is a feeling in the industry that neural networks, large language models and other AI technologies—as they are construed now—are by far not as effective and useful as the the affectionate visionaries, tech prophets and evangelists …

There is an old—perhaps ancient—“puzzle” or “paradox” that is quite often used by atheists—even today—to prove that the concept of omnipotence is self-contradictory; ergo the …