Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Bloggers and analysts flagged a Will Smith YouTube Shorts clip after viewers noticed odd, AI-like…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Reuters reports that Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, removing earlier project milestones…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie acts have quietly pulled their music from Spotify in response to news that Spotify founder Daniel…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The BBC has reported that for months tens of thousands of people worldwide have had Facebook or Instagram accounts…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has been hit with multiple copyright Content ID claims and strikes…
Summary Multiple US universities received false reports of active shooters as students returned to campus; the incidents — beginning with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Villanova — spread…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan reported that continuous exposure to a rose-scented oil worn on clothing for a month led…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Veteran computer scientist Brian Kernighan — co‑creator of Unix and long‑time educator at Princeton — tried writing a single Rust…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Content Summary The article (via The Register, republished on Slashdot) argues that modern AI web crawlers are far…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline built by two independent Israeli security researchers automatically produced proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for 14 open-source vulnerabilities, in…
