Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato says Universal Music Group (UMG) has been issuing automated Content ID…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary This report summarises a recent string of false active-shooter reports — so-called “swatting” — that targeted about 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 wear a specific rose-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary Veteran computer scientist Brian Kernighan (age 83) described a single experiment writing a Rust programme and found the experience frustrating.…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary The article (originally reported at The Register and hosted on Slashdot) argues that modern AI web crawlers…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary New data from large, contemporary trials challenges the long-standing practice of routinely prescribing…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The U.S. government climate site climate.gov — long used as a public source of climate science and data — lost…
Humans Are Being Hired to Make AI Slop Look Less Sloppy Summary Businesses and individuals increasingly use generative AI to produce logos, copy and code, but those outputs often need…
OpenAI Is Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content To Police Summary OpenAI has acknowledged — buried inside a longer blog post about ChatGPT and severe mental health harms —…
400 ‘Tech Utopian’ Refuges Consider New Crypto-Friendly State Summary Nearly 400 students and entrepreneurs have converged on Forest City to attend “Network School”, an initiative by Balaji Srinivasan that tests…
