Pressure
(Dis)assembling the bill-of-materials list for measuring blood pressure on the wrist
More than a decade ago, I visited my local doctor’s office, suffering from either kidney stone or back-spasm pain (I don’t recall which; at the time, it could have been either, or both, for that matter). As usual, the assistant logged my height and weight on the hallway scale, then my blood pressure in the…
Major Gaming Store Delists All NSFW Games Following Pressure From Anti-Porn Campaigners
Following on from Steam’s delisting of hundreds of extreme adult games, indie gaming site Itch.io has made the even more extreme move of (in some cases temporarily) removing all NSFW games from its store pages and search results. The action, made in response to pressure group Collective Shout, has led to even this year’s IGF…
Google study shows LLMs abandon correct answers under pressure, threatening multi-turn AI systems
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London reveals how large language models (LLMs) form, maintain and lose confidence in their answers. The findings reveal…
Feeling Pressure to Invest in AI? Good—You Should Be
AI is not new. Humans began researching AI in the 1940s, and computer scientists like John McCarthy opened our eyes to the possibilities of what this technology could achieve. What is relatively new, though, is the volume of hype. It feels exponential. ChatGPT was released in 2022 to great fanfare, and now DeepSeek and Qwen…
Why Time is QA Tester’s Superpower and Pressure its Kryptonite! – Spritle software
Introduction In the breakneck world of software development, where new apps and features are demanded yesterday, Quality Assurance (QA) teams often find themselves under immense pressure. They’re expected to give the thumbs-up on complex software, often against a relentlessly ticking clock. But here’s the truth: squeezing QA like a lemon doesn’t magically produce better software—it…