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Research compiled by the Conservative party showed immigration judges have made political remarks about the system they are supposed to adjudicate upon impartially.

In a blog post yesterday, Master I-ranked human GeoGuessr player Sam Patterson said that OpenAI's o3 model outscored him in a head-to-head match, "correctly identifying all five countries and twice landing within a few hundred meters." Geoguessing is a game -- most popularly known through the platform GeoGuessr -- where players are dropped into a random location in Google Street View and must figure out where in the world they are using only visual clues from the environment. With the release of its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, OpenAI now does a surprisingly good job of analyzing uploaded images to determine their locations using nothing but subtle visual clues. "Even when I embedded fake GPS coordinates in the image EXIF, the model ignored the spoof and still pinpointed the real locations, showing its performance comes from visual reasoning and on-the-fly web sleuthing -- not hidden metadata," says Patterson. From the post: I notice that it often does a lot of unnecessary and repetitive cropping, and will sometimes spend way too much time on something unimportant. A human is very good at knowing what matters, and o3 is less knowledgeable about what things it should focus on. It got distracted by advertising multiple times. However, most of what it says about things like signs and road lines appears to be accurate, or at least close enough to truth that they meaningfully add up. Given the end result of these excellent guesses, it seems to arrive at the guesses from that information. If it's using other information to arrive at the guess, then it's not metadata from the files, but instead web search. It seems likely that in the Austria round, the web search was meaningful, since it mentioned the website named the town itself. It appeared less meaningful in the Ireland round. It was still very capable in the rounds without search. So to put a bow on this: - The o3 model isn't smoke and mirrors, tricking us by only using EXIF data. It's at a comparable Geoguessr skill level to Master I or better players now (at least according to my own ~20 or so rounds of testing). - Humans still hold a big edge in decision time -- most of my guesses were 4 min. - Spoofing EXIF data doesn't throw off the model. Whether you view this as dystopian or as a technological marvel -- or both -- you can't claim it's a parlor trick.

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Google dumped io_uring after $1M in bug bounties

A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.…

Her passing was announced this Tuesday by her actress daughter Amy Irving, who was married to Steven Spielberg from 1985 to 1989.

George Clooney 's attorney wife Amal could face a ban from the US under proposed new sanctions from President Donald Trump.

She told guest JoAnna Garcia Swisher that she was crying because her father, Robert Applegate, passed away about a week before they were recording.

The former actress, 43, has sparked controversy after her friend Jamie Kern Lima shared a picture of a food hamper with a note that said it was 'With the compliments of HRH The Duchess of Sussex'.

At least two people were removed from an American Airlines flight to New York after a woman attempted to breach the cockpit to question the pilots over a delay.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Today, open-source software powers the world. It didn't have to be that way. The Open Invention Network's (OIN) origins are rooted in a turbulent era for open source. In the mid-2000s, Linux faced existential threats from copyright and patent litigation. Besides, the infamous SCO lawsuit and Microsoft's claims that Linux infringed on hundreds of its patents cast a shadow over the ecosystem. Business leaders became worried. While SCO's attacks petered out, patent trolls -- formally known as Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) -- were increasing their attacks. So, open-source friendly industry giants, including IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony, formed the Open Invention Network (OIN) to create a bulwark against patent threats targeting Linux and open-source technologies. Founded in 2005, the Open Invention Network (OIN) has evolved into a global community comprising over 4,000 participants, ranging from startups to multinational corporations, collectively holding more than three million patents and patent applications. At the heart of OIN's legal strategy is a royalty-free cross-license agreement. Members agree not to assert their patents against the Linux System, creating a powerful network effect that shields open-source projects from litigation. As OIN CEO Keith Bergelt explained, this model enables "broad-based participation by ensuring patent risk mitigation in key open-source technologies, thereby facilitating open-source adoption." This approach worked then, and it continues to work today. [...] Over the years, OIN's mission has expanded beyond Linux to cover a range of open-source technologies. Its Linux System Definition, which determines the scope of patent cross-licensing, has grown from a few core packages to over 4,500 software components and platforms, including Android, Apache, Kubernetes, and ChromeOS. This expansion has been critical, as open source has become foundational across industries such as finance, automotive, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence.

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The influencer, 25, posted a series of sweet snaps to Instagram, just hours after Zoe was heard questioning if Molly and Tommy Fury have 'addressed the problems' in a new trailer.

Last Friday, the supermodel rang in her birthday with many of her celebrity pals but her close friends Lively and Ryan Reynolds were noticeably absent.

Covid lockdowns followed by driving examiner strikes in 2022 and 2023 have caused months-long backlogs to build up over the past five years.

Georgia Harrison shared a candid pregnancy update on Tuesday - just days after revealing she was expecting her first child with her boyfriend Jack Stacey. 

Molly-Mae Hague has finally confirmed she and Tommy Fury are back together but admits she lives in fear of their romance being 'destroyed.'

Sometimes, silence is the best option

Updated  An Oklahoma City cybersecurity professional accused of installing spyware on a hospital PC confirmed on LinkedIn key details of the drama.…

He is an early favorite for heartthrob of the year and has also been embroiled in a much talked about feud. However, he wasn't always Hollywood royalty as he was born in Birmingham, Alabama.

Mastercard is working with Microsoft and other leading AI companies to give AI agents the ability to shop online and make payments on behalf of consumers. From a report: Under the new program, a shopper could prompt an AI agent -- Microsoft's Copilot, for example -- to search for a pair of yellow running shoes in a particular size. The agent would then search and offer the customer options, and then be able to make the purchase while also recommending the best way to pay, Mastercard said in a statement Tuesday.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales looked overjoyed to be back in Scotland as they celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary with a public visit to the picturesque Isle of Mull. 

The romantic picture showed the Prince and Princess of Wales lovingly holding each other as they enjoyed a quiet moment at dusk in Tobermory in the Isle of Mull.

Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his wife Judy, 71, from Kent, were among the seven people who died when the 56 meter sailing boat sank off the coast of Sicily last August.