First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary Oliver McCann, a 37-year-old Brit described as an “AI music creator,” signed with an…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research pipeline built by two independent Israeli researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — used prompts to a large language…
Summary Five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify after news that Spotify founder Daniel Ek helped lead a large investment in a German defence firm that builds AI…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The BBC and other outlets report that, over recent months, thousands of Facebook and Instagram accounts have been suspended…
Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has been hit with multiple Universal Music Group (UMG) copyright claims — some on videos years old — including a 2017 “rant” and livestreams…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A string of false reports claiming active shooters struck about a dozen US universities as students returned for term…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil on their clothing daily for a…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary 83-year-old Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix, described a single hands‑on attempt to write a Rust programme during a talk at…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The article (drawing on a piece at The Register and reports from Cloudflare and Fastly) argues that…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The production team behind climate.gov — a long-running U.S. government site for climate science — were dismissed earlier in the…
