Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary The Guardian reports that five indie bands have removed their music from Spotify following news that Spotify founder…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months users worldwide have reported being wrongly suspended from Instagram and Facebook. The BBC investigated hundreds of complaints:…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has been hit with a wave of copyright Content ID claims…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary A wave of swatting — false reports of active shooters — targeted about a dozen US universities as students…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to apply a specific rose-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Brian Kernighan — one of the co‑creators of Unix — described a single experience writing a Rust program and found…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The Register’s piece, highlighted on Slashdot, warns that modern AI web crawlers are far more aggressive than…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The US government climate site climate.gov — a long-standing public resource for climate science — effectively lost its production team…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Generative AI tools are producing a flood of quick prototypes — logos, copy, code and visuals — but…
Summary OpenAI acknowledged — buried inside a blog post about ChatGPT and mental-health risks — that it automatically scans user conversations and routes flagged chats to human reviewers. Those reviewers,…
