400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have gathered in Forest City to attend Network School, an initiative led by Balaji Srinivasan that…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary An AI-driven offensive research system developed by two independent Israeli researchers — dubbed Auto Exploit — used LLM prompts, CVE advisories and…
Intel Get $5.7 Billion Early. What’s the Government’s Strategy? Summary Intel amended its CHIPS Act funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove earlier project milestones and received…
Five Indie Bands Quit Spotify After Founder’s AI Weapons Tech Investment Summary Five indie bands popular in alternative circles have removed their music from Spotify after news that Spotify founder…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary The Slashdot post links to BBC reporting that, for months, thousands of Facebook and Instagram users have had accounts…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato has been hit with multiple copyright content ID claims and strikes…
Swatting Hits a Dozen US Universities — The FBI is Investigating Summary This report summarises a recent wave of “swatting” hoaxes: anonymous calls falsely reporting active shooters at a dozen…
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 essential…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary 83-year-old Brian Kernighan — co-creator of Unix and co-author of the classic C book — tried writing a single Rust…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The Register (via Slashdot) reports that modern AI web crawlers — driven by companies such as Meta,…
