What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The Slashdot piece summarises reporting from the BBC and reactions from users after thousands of Facebook and Instagram accounts…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has publicised a fresh wave of copyright claims and strikes on…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of false reports of active shooters disrupted a dozen US universities as students returned to campus. The…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan report that daily inhalation of a specific rose-scented oil applied to clothing for a month…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Brian Kernighan, now in his eighties and still teaching at Princeton, described a one-off experience trying Rust during a talk…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The article (originally from The Register and shared via Slashdot) argues that modern AI web crawlers are…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large, contemporary trial (REBOOT) and related analyses challenge the long-standing routine use…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The federal climate information site climate.gov — long a public source of climate science and resources — saw its production…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary NBC News (via Slashdot) reports that a growing niche of freelance work involves humans fixing imperfect AI outputs…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI quietly confirmed in a blog post that it scans ChatGPT conversations for signs users may be planning…
