21 February 2025

Good for Apple.  The UK will no longer get end-to-end encryption on cloud data from Apple, now that the UK government required a backdoor. That would ruin Apple's reputation for security if they acquiesced. Screw them.

––– 凄い –––

What universities have the most retracted articles?  The top scorers are the Chinese universities. But other retraction prone instituions are King Saud University and private Indian universities in Tamil Nadu. And the release of ChatGPT is probably the reason for the explosion of retracted articles since 2022.  Yikes!  Beware of science from China, India, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

––– 良くない–––

Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis. It turns out that insulin-stimulated arterial endothelial cells upregulate that CX3CL1 chemokine. So insulin can be bad for you.

––– 良くない–––

OMG! It looks like the identity of Cleo from Math StackExchange has been revealed.

––– 凄い –––

Great! Palo Alto teen genius who got rejected from 16 universities is suing for racial discrimination. I hope he wins. There is so much racism in California.

––– 凄い –––

The Indiana Jones jailbreak for LLMs. Is there a list of these names anywhere?

––– 良くない–––

People Are Getting Dumber, and AI Is Getting Smarter. Yeah, I was just thinking about the cannabis cafes I posted yesterday. Thinking is so hard now for a lot of people. People would rather fry their brains and not think.

––– 良くない–––