There has been much research in recent months making LLMs give helpful and useful information. Unfortunately it is often wrong or inaccurate. Today I show how some simple tasks for radio amateurs are given back with incorrect information in Claude, ChatGPT and Bing AI assistant:
Continue reading “AI Attempts at Ham Radio Help”Laravel update breaks Eloquent queries
Laravel is generally known to be compatible from minor release to minor release, but a recent update breaks many queries and has been reported by several coders!
Continue reading “Laravel update breaks Eloquent queries”Kv4p HT app brings 2-meter Ham Radio to Android Phones
If you have been involved in amateur radio groups you may have noted the new popular kv4p HT project that many have been talking about. This app and USBC-connected radio chip let you use your phone as a small ham radio handheld!
Continue reading “Kv4p HT app brings 2-meter Ham Radio to Android Phones”Recent phone system hack called “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history”
Days ago, senator Warner reported on the major intrusion on American phone networks. In recent months, the group Salt Typhoon was found to have compromised various systems, including those involved with major political figures.
Continue reading “Recent phone system hack called “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history””Coming up at Panhandle Preparedness Expo!
The Panhandle preparedness expo is coming up next weekend! What will you find at the preparedness expo?
Continue reading “Coming up at Panhandle Preparedness Expo!”Recent Outages Highlight Need for Ham Radio, Multiple Emergency Communications.
Earlier this month, both AT&T and Verizon had a texting and calling cell phone outage – even the FCC noted that this was happening in multiple states! Similar issues have happened in February and at other times. In the recent New Mexico, 29 out of 113 cell towers were down and this is a common issue among areas with natural disasters. This highlights the need for other channels of communication, even when you are in town and normally have a working cell phone:
Continue reading “Recent Outages Highlight Need for Ham Radio, Multiple Emergency Communications.”Will LLMs ruin SEO? It already may be happening.
In the recent article in The Atlantic, they make an interesting point – the web will likely be transformed by the junk that can be created by LLVMs and ChatGPT. This could be an increasing problem in the future, and I have seen some cases where current search engines give links to the “word salad” pages noted in the article.
Continue reading “Will LLMs ruin SEO? It already may be happening.”Recent Research Paper Notes Security Issues of ChatGPT and Other Language Models
In early March a paper was published with details of a potential vulnerability that can spread across getAI systems. For example, a mailing assistant service could be set to send out something spammy.
Continue reading “Recent Research Paper Notes Security Issues of ChatGPT and Other Language Models”Is your XZ/SSH Security Library Compromised? How to Check for Recent Backdoor
Recently the common XZ library had a major backdoor found – by its own contributor. You can read about the recent discovery on OpenSSF. What does this say about the common advice to “always update the latest updates”? And how many times have things like this happened in the past?
Continue reading “Is your XZ/SSH Security Library Compromised? How to Check for Recent Backdoor”KNIME Summit is coming up – with free online passes available
If you’ve worked with data science, ML or AI tools you will probably be familiar with the KNIME tools. Later this month, April 15-17, 3 days of data science demos will be available, with free online stream passes available. Check it out at https://info.knime.com/spring-summit-2024-atx!