One of the most exhausting things is seeing students submit logs of AI usage where they ask the AI to do a task that is explained instructions.... including asking for links that are in the instructions.
Rob O 
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Teaching faculty. Security researcher. Red team, DevOps, AppSec. An academic but not an academic. nerdprof @ Twitter
Had an 8am exam this morning and I'm now catching up on the vulns from this morning.
Well, shit.
... I just got a notice about a settlement in the Anthropic lawsuit,, saying I may be eligible because of copyright claims relating to:
- A book titled "Art Direction for Film and Video" (Robert I Olson)
- A book titled "Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow" (Robert L Olson)
- A book titled "An Introduction to Existentialism" (Robert G Olson)
... I guess the AI overlords haven't successfully associated my middle initial with my work email address despite it being in my work email address.
I know there's a lot of reasons to hate AI, but one specific thing I hate AI is that it's basically forced me to rollback a significant amount of course development that I did circa 2020-2021.
This toot brought to you by fighting with Visual Studio/Ghidra to generate non-trivial (and at least passingly real-world) assembly that I can feasibly ask students to analyze by hand in the time frame of a final exam.
"Mushroom spider robots". Cool. That's a thing that should exist. That's totally normal.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/08/biohybrid-robots-controlled-electrical-impulses-mushrooms
Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electrical signals.
abadideaum, what’s that part where samsung *agrees* they’ve known about the key leak since, uh, 2016?? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/samsungs-android-app-signing-key-has-leaked-is-being-used-to-sign-malware/
