Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Major reporting at The Register, highlighted on Slashdot, warns that AI-driven web crawlers are dramatically increasing bot…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate portal climate.gov — long a repository of climate-science resources — had its production team dismissed earlier…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary NBC News reports that a fresh category of freelance work has grown out of the generative-AI boom: humans…
Slashdot (via Futurism) reports that OpenAI confirmed it scans ChatGPT conversations and routes interactions flagged as planning harm into a specialised human review pipeline. Human reviewers can ban accounts and,…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Around 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City, Malaysia, to attend Network School — an initiative led by Balaji…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary British creator Oliver McCann — who says he has “no musical talent” — has…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A plaintiff has filed suit against Amazon Prime Video, alleging that the platform misleads customers by…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ devs unionise — 3,500 Microsoft workers now unionised Summary PC Gamer reports that over 450 developers who work on Diablo have voted to form a union under the…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an automated offensive-research pipeline (dubbed Auto Exploit) that uses LLMs, CVE advisories and public patches to generate…
States now have a legal duty to prevent climate harm — justice is in reach Summary By Maina Vakafua Talia, Tuvalu’s minister of home affairs, climate change and environment. The…
