OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Slashdot (via Futurism) reports that OpenAI has confirmed it automatically scans ChatGPT conversations and routes chats flagged as…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have converged on Forest City, Malaysia — a largely empty Chinese-built megaproject — to attend Network…
A British user, Oliver McCann, described as an “AI music creator,” signed with an independent record label after one of his AI-produced tracks reached about 3 million streams — an…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A new lawsuit challenges Amazon Prime Video’s use of the word “buy” for digital video purchases…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers working on Diablo at Blizzard have voted to form a union with the Communications Workers of…
Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake Summary A review of published meta-analyses summarised by cardiologist Eric Topol finds little evidence that consuming more than ~1.6 g of protein per kg of…
Why Do Waymos Keep Loitering in Front of My House? Summary Residents in parts of Los Angeles and Arizona have noticed Waymo robotaxis repeatedly parking in the exact same spots…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline, built by two independent Israeli researchers and dubbed Auto Exploit, uses LLM prompts (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories…
Spanish government cancels €10m contract using Huawei equipment Summary The Spanish government cancelled a €10 million contract that would have deployed Huawei equipment to upgrade RedIRIS, the national academic and…
Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing ‘cathedrals of complexity’ Summary Taylor Otwell, creator and lead maintainer of the Laravel PHP framework, warns developers against building overly clever, hard-to-change systems…
