First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old Brit with no formal musical background, has been billed as…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A lawsuit claims Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling time-limited streaming licences as “buy” purchases.…
Blizzard’s ‘Diablo’ Devs Unionize. There’s Now 3,500 Unionized Microsoft Workers Summary Over 450 developers who work on Blizzard’s Diablo franchise have voted to form a union under the Communications Workers…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary This Uncanny Valley episode (hosted by Zoë Schiffer with Leah Feiger) rounds up five top stories from the week: several AI researchers recruited…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large-language model led by Chile’s National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) intended to help…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An Israeli research duo built an LLM-powered offensive pipeline called ‘Auto Exploit’ that ingests CVE advisories and code patches, generates vulnerable test…
Clarity or accuracy — what makes a good scientific image? Summary Felice Frankel reviews Anika Burgess’s book Flashes of Brilliance, a celebration of early photography that explores how images have…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is seeing a big rise in applications but only a small…
Who is afraid of quantum mechanics? Books in brief Summary Andrew Robinson presents a brisk round-up of recent science books, picking five notable titles and giving each a short, evaluative…
Traffic to government domains often crosses national borders, or flows through risky bottlenecks Summary New research from Internet Society fellow Rashna Kumar maps how traffic to government websites in 58…
