22 stories tagged with #contamination, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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Abortion pills in America's water supply: Republican AGs call for the EPA to investigate possible contamination
In addition to killing unborn children in the womb and exposing their mothers to potentially fatal health risks, the abortion pill mifepristone might be contaminating America's wat…
The Reliability Gap in Benchmark Auditing: Distribution Shift and Scale as Failure Modes of Contamination Detection
Benchmark contamination, where evaluation examples appear in a model's training data, threatens the validity of LLM assessment. Statistical tools for detecting training-data member…
Why 'irresponsible' dumping of mercury caused evacuations in outback town
An outback town's hospital, service station and school were affected when students discovered vials of mercury at the tip. Experts have explained why specialists have spent days do…
Australia Launches $1.4 Billion Suit Over 3M ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contamination at Bases
Australia is suing 3M over a toxic product that seeped into the ground beneath 28 military sites.…
Australia sues 3M for $1.4 billion over PFAS ’forever chemicals’ contamination
Australia sues 3M for $1.4 bln over PFAS contamination
I built a 103B-token Usenet corpus (1980–2013) — pre-web, human-only, zero AI contamination. Got strong traction on r/ML, thought this community would find it useful.
Pretraining Data Exposure in Large Language Models: A Survey of Membership Inference, Data Contamination, and Security Implications
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the predominant paradigm in NLP, advancing both research and industry. As model sizes and pretraining data grow, concerns about Pretraining…
TSFMAudit: Data Contamination Auditing in Forecasting Time Series Foundation Models
Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are increasingly pretrained on large corpora, raising concerns that evaluation datasets may have been exposed during pretraining and thus yiel…
Specialty beverages sold in 25 states recalled for possible contamination
Transport Canada took years to notify residents of ‘forever chemicals’ in groundwater near airports
Foams used in firefighting drills contaminated drinking water in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland communities…
Contamination of domestic water sources may be driving amoebic meningoencephalitis in Kerala
Contaminated water sources in Kerala are linked to rising cases of amoebic meningoencephalitis, posing significant health risks.…
Feds reveal efforts to clean up toxic remnants of LA wildfire were successful
A massive federal cleanup operation launched after the deadly Eaton Fire appears to have worked, according to new soil testing results released by the US Environmental Protection A…
RO systems should be maintained properly to be effective, says study
A study that surveyed both RO treated and source water from 216 households in Chennai found that 31% of post-RO samples still contained E. coli. Highlighting the need for regular m…
Another popular pantry item recalled over potential salmonella contamination
State Contamination in Memory-Augmented LLM Agents
LLM agents increasingly rely on persistent state, including transcripts, summaries, retrieved context, and memory buffers, to support long-horizon interaction. This makes safety de…
Reasoners or Translators? Contamination-aware Evaluation and Neuro-Symbolic Robustness in Tax Law
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced automated legal reasoning. Yet, it remains unclear whether their performance reflects genuine legal reas…
Did endemic ergot contamination enable the visionary experiences of Hadewijch, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Meister Eckhart?
HRF alleges unchecked industrial effluent discharge in Anakapalli district
HRF claims unchecked industrial effluent discharge in Anakapalli harms residents, agriculture, and aquatic life, demanding urgent intervention.…
Ice cream sold in 17 states recalled over possible metal contamination
Straus Family Creamery voluntarily initiated a recall of certain flavors due to the risk of “foreign metal material.”…
Guntur civic chief orders strict vigil against contamination of drinking water
Guntur officials ordered to audit drinking water pipelines and ensure safety against contamination for residents' well-being.…
No sign of let-up in hepatitis A cases in Palluruthy, say officials
Hepatitis A cases continue to rise in Palluruthy, prompting health officials to emphasize hygiene and water safety measures.…