Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register, via Slashdot) warns that modern AI web crawlers are aggressively “strip‑mining” the…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate information site climate.gov has been effectively sidelined after its production team was dismissed earlier in the…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Freelancers — graphic designers, web developers and other creatives — are increasingly being hired to tidy up AI-generated…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI has acknowledged — in a post originally noted by Futurism and highlighted on Slashdot — that it…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City to attend Network School, founded by Balaji Srinivasan, to test ideas…
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,” is being…
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 long-term streaming licences as “buy” or…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-powered offensive research pipeline developed by two Israeli security researchers automatically generated proof‑of‑concept exploit code for 14 vulnerabilities in open‑source packages…
Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off Summary The article argues that running large language models (LLMs) locally is becoming realistic and attractive due to concerns about…
WhatsApp warns of ‘attack against specific targeted users’ Summary Meta’s WhatsApp has disclosed a serious vulnerability (CVE-2025-55177) that “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.”…
