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These statements play a vital role in guiding medical decisions and ensuring accurate patient care.
“No family history of breast cancer,” “No evidence of anemia,” “No fracture,” and “No abnormalities noted on exam.” These statements play a vital role in guiding medical decisions and ensuring accurate patient care. “If negation is missed or ignored,
the system will make mistakes in understanding the characteristics of a patient,” she added. “It’s also important in contexts like clinical trials, where inclusion and exclusion criteria define which patients qualify.” The MIT team tested VLMs and
found that they often performed at or below random chance when processing captions that contained negation. In side-by-side comparisons where nearly identical captions diff ered only by the presence of a word like “not” or an excluded object, the models frequently chose the wrong answer. The researchers discovered an “af irmation bias” — as Verspoor
compiled data from breaches for over a decade. You can plug in your email address to find where it has been compromised. Password managers: 1Password
($36 a year) flags any saved passwords that appear in Have I Been Pwned data. Dashlane ($60 a year) and Bitwarden (free and paid plans, starting at $10 a year) also off er dark web alerts. Identity theft protection services:
Some, such as NordProtect ($90 a year) and Aura ($144 a year), off er monitoring in addition to insurance. A Social Security number is one of the
most dangerous pieces of information that can be leaked. That’s because criminals can use it to commit diff erent kinds of fraud, and it’s dif icult to change your number. Freeze your credit at the three major
credit bureaus — Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax — to prevent hackers from opening an unauthorized account. Change compromised passwords:
If you used that password for multiple accounts, reset those, too. Many hackers
explained, VLMs tend to overlook negation and instead focus on identifying positive objects in an image. This bias is a shortcut that stems
from how these models are trained. Most VLMs learn from image-caption pairs that describe what is in the image, not what is absent. As study member Marzyeh Ghassemi,
an associate professor at MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, points out: “No one writes captions that say: ‘A dog jumping a fence — without helicopters.’ So VLMs never learn what absence looks like.” To address this shortcoming, the
researchers created a synthetic dataset with captions that specifically describe what is not in each image. Fine-tuning VLMs with this dataset
improved their performance by 10% in tasks involving negated-image retrieval and by 30% in multiple-choice captioning accuracy.
use leaked passwords to launch attacks on other services. And yes, you really should change all of your duplicated or easy-to- guess passwords. Set up a password manager to help you
create complex, unique logins for every site. Turn on multifactor authentication:
Typically a time-sensitive code from your phone, this extra digital lock will protect your account if a hacker gets your password. A code-generating app, such as Authy or Google Authenticator, is the most protective method — but any multifactor authentication is better than none. Don’t forget to enable it for your password manager, too. Just be sure to have a backup plan in case you lose your phone. Stop giving out unnecessary data:
Hackers can’t steal data that’s not there, said James Lee, president of the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. Next time a nongovernment entity
asks for your Social Security number, like a dentist, try refusing and off ering another form of identity. Give out a burner number, and even a burner birth date.
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