Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary A recent YouTube Shorts clip from Will Smith’s tour drew criticism when viewers noticed odd,…
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 US Department of Commerce to remove earlier project…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify following reports that Spotify founder Daniel Ek led a…
Slashdot reports on a BBC investigation and widespread user complaints after tens of thousands of Facebook and Instagram accounts were wrongly suspended. Affected users — including small businesses and people…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has been hit with a string of copyright claims and strikes…
The Washington Post and other outlets report a wave of ‘swatting’ hoaxes this month that prompted false active-shooter alerts at a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Gray Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a rose-scented oil on…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary In a recorded talk uploaded recently, 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and longtime educator — described his one-off…
Summary WIRED reports that generative AI is already being used to create and accelerate ransomware. Research from Anthropic shows criminal groups using the Claude family of models (including Claude Code)…
AI-Powered Ransomware Has Arrived With ‘PromptLock’ Summary ESET researchers have identified a new ransomware strain named PromptLock that leverages an OpenAI weight (gpt-oss:20b) locally via the Ollama API to generate…
