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Must prise myself out of bed. This is one of our new 'no need to get up early to drive a child to school' mid-#GCSE days and very welcome they are too when they coincide with my days off. Just exams on Friday and Monday to go and then we're freeeeeeeeeee!

Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese AI companies temporarily disabled chatbot functions like image recognition during China's annual college entrance exams (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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Oral exams in introductory statistics class with non-native English speakers
Oral exams are a powerful tool to assess student's learning. This is particularly important in introductory statistics classes where students struggle to grasp various topics like the interpretation of probability, $p$-values and more. The challenge of acquiring conceptual understanding is only heightened when students are learning in a second language. In this paper, I share my experience administering oral exams to an introductory statistics class of non-native English speakers at a Japanese …

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russian group Laundry Bear hacked Dutch police, targets Ukraine-allied nations
--Iranian pleads guilty to Robbinhood ransomware,
--Vietnam-tied UNC6032 uses prompt-to-video AI tools to lure malware victims,
--Russia sends former programmer to prison for 14 years,
--Czech Republic says China's APT31 hacked its comms networks,
--Nigeria arrests 20 for…

Russian group Laundry Bear hacked Dutch police, targets Ukraine-allied nations
Iranian pleads guilty to Robbinhood, UNC6032 uses prompt-to-video AI tools to lure victims, Russia sends former programmer to prison for 14 years, Czech Republic says China's APT31 hacked its comms networks, Nigeria arrests 20 for exams hacking, Bad flaw found in GitHub MCP integration, much more

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SeePhys: Does Seeing Help Thinking? -- Benchmarking Vision-Based Physics Reasoning
We present SeePhys, a large-scale multimodal benchmark for LLM reasoning grounded in physics questions ranging from middle school to PhD qualifying exams. The benchmark covers 7 fundamental domains spanning the physics discipline, incorporating 21 categories of highly heterogeneous diagrams. In contrast to prior works where visual elements mainly serve auxiliary purposes, our benchmark features a substantial proportion of vision-essential problems (75\%) that mandate visual information extracti…