Archive for July 2025

If reviewers are merely skimming papers and relying on LLMs to generate substantive reviews rather than using it to clarify their original thoughts, it opens the door for a new cheating method known as indirect prompt injection, which involves inserting hidden white text or other manipulated fonts that tell AI tools to give a research paper favorable reviews. The prompts are only visible to machines, and preliminary research has found that the strategy can be highly effective for inflating AI-generated review scores.

BASW has written to the Minister for Social Security and Disability, Sir Stephen Timms MP urging the UK Government to ensure that Access to Work remains a robust, accessible, and equitable scheme that supports—not hinders—disabled people’s right to work. It also insists that any changes to the scheme must be done in consultation with disabled professionals, not imposed upon them.

A police spokesman said officers discovered multiple dangerous substances in the flat, including a vape device containing liquid etomidate, the main ingredient in the drug commonly known as “space oil”. Cannabis and ketamine were also seized. The source said the “space oil” was inside the bedroom where the teenager was found. There were no suspicious injuries on his body, but he had multiple self-inflicted wounds on his shoulders and forearms.

Albuquerque made zero-fare transit permanent in November 2023, becoming one of the largest U.S. cities to implement zero-fare transit. About a year and a half later, transit officials and advocates say the zero-fare program is working as intended, by serving the city’s lowest-income residents…. “This is a public service, and the people that we serve really rely on it,” says Leslie Keener, director of the City of Albuquerque’s transit department. “I think it’s a way to really just open up access and create mobility so that people have the opportunity to have some upward movement.”

New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere. It is long past the time to seriously reduce military, police and prison funding… next year and every year after that.

The Public Spaces Protection Order gives police and community wardens the power to issue a £100 fixed penalty notice for anti-social behaviour, and coincides with a Wiltshire Police crackdown on e-scooters. Councillor Jim Grant said it was in response to concerns of some residents, who he said felt scared of going to the town centre because of drunkenness, harassment and illegal e-scooters.