What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary In a recent talk (video uploaded to YouTube), 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix — described his one experience…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at The Register (via Slashdot) warns that modern AI web crawlers are more aggressive…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary New clinical trial data and related analyses challenge the decades-old practice of routinely…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind the US federal climate information site climate.gov was dismissed earlier in the summer and the original…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Graphic designers, developers and writers are being paid to fix poor AI-generated work — logos, code and content…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI has admitted that it scans ChatGPT conversations for signs that users may plan to harm others. Conversations…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary A group of roughly 400 students and entrepreneurs has gathered at Forest City, Malaysia, to attend “Network School,” an initiative led…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Content summary The article reports that Oliver McCann, a 37‑year‑old described as an “AI music…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary The article covers a lawsuit challenging Amazon Prime Video’s use of the word “buy” for digital…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ devs unionise — now 3,500 unionised Microsoft workers Summary The Diablo development team at Blizzard — more than 450 people across multiple disciplines — have voted to form…
