Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Content Summary This Slashdot post links to a Register piece arguing that modern AI web crawlers are far…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large contemporary trial (REBOOT) and supporting analyses challenge the routine use of…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate site climate.gov — long regarded as a reliable source of climate science communication — saw its…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary NBC News reports that a growing crop of freelance gigs involves humans fixing imperfect AI outputs — from…
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 of users planning harm.…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary About 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City to attend “Network School,” an initiative led by Balaji Srinivasan that…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary The article reports that Oliver McCann — described as an “AI music creator” who…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses an LLM (Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0), CVE advisories and…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands have quietly removed their music from Spotify in response to news that Spotify founder Daniel…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary Slashdot links to reporting about a wave of apparent erroneous suspensions on Meta’s platforms (Instagram and Facebook). For months,…
