What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary 83-year-old Brian Kernighan, co‑creator of Unix, described a single experience writing one Rust programme and finding it “a pain.” He…
Summary AI web crawlers — increasingly used to gather training data for large language models — are being blamed for heavy, often damaging traffic spikes on websites. The piece summarises…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government’s climate information portal climate.gov — maintained for years by a specialist production team — was effectively sidelined…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary The article reports that a new class of freelance work has emerged: humans are being hired to clean…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI — in a blog post about ChatGPT’s potential for severe mental-health harms — disclosed…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City to attend Network School, a programme organised by Balaji Srinivasan that…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old Brit who says he has “no musical talent,” has been…
Lawsuit Says Amazon Prime Video Misleads When You ‘Buy’ a Long-Term Streaming Rental Summary A lawsuit alleges Amazon Prime Video misleads customers by labelling time-limited streaming licences as “buy” or…
AI-Driven Exploit Development: A New Era of Security Vulnerability AI-driven exploit development is ushering in a new era of cybersecurity vulnerability, as demonstrated by the recent creation of Auto Exploit,…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven research pipeline developed by two Israeli security researchers—dubbed Auto Exploit—uses LLM prompts, CVE advisories and open-source patches to generate vulnerable…
