What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust?
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary In a recorded Q&A at New Jersey’s InfoAge, 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and co-author of the C…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data?
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at The Register argues that modern AI web crawlers are far more aggressive than…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government’s climate portal climate.gov — long a public source for climate science — saw its production team dismissed…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Freelancers and creative professionals are increasingly being paid to clean up and finish AI-generated work that misses the…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary Futurism reports that OpenAI revealed, in a blog post about ChatGPT and severe mental-health risks, that it scans…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have arrived in Forest City to attend Network School, an experiment founded by Balaji Srinivasan that…
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry?
First ‘AI Music Creator’ Signed by Record Label. More Ahead, or Just a Copyright Quandry? Summary British ‘AI music creator’ Oliver McCann, who says he has no musical training, signed…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli security researchers built an automated pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that uses prompts to large language models (notably Anthropic’s Claude-sonnet-4.0),…
China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to ‘deepen information technology revolution’
China launches new ‘AI+’ policy to ‘deepen information technology revolution’ Key Points • China’s State Council has announced a new national IT strategy called “AI+”, succeeding the 2015 “Internet+” programme.…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy?
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Reuters reports Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones…