Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary Blogger Andy Baio analysed a Will Smith YouTube Shorts clip and suggests the footage may…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel amended its Chips Act funding agreement with the US Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify after news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek led a…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months, thousands of people worldwide have reported their Instagram and Facebook accounts being suspended in error. A BBC…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato is publicly fighting a wave of copyright claims and strikes from…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false active-shooter reports struck about a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The FBI…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan ran a small month-long experiment where 28 women applied a specific rose-scented oil to their…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary At an InfoAge talk, 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and longtime educator — described his one experience writing…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at The Register warns that modern AI web crawlers are aggressively scraping the web…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A recent set of studies reported by CNN and published in leading journals…
