Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too | TechCrunch
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
Breaking Free – Forbrukerrådet
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other actors in Europe and the US, we are sending letter to policymakers in the EU/EEA, UK and the US.
Leaving Google has actively improved my life
In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.^1] This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consum...
Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers In 1993
This is a semi-satirical / joking-not-joking post (spun out of a private mastodon post) that I will be taking absolutely no questions or comments about. If it does not amuse you please do not tell me in gruesome well-actually detail why it is a bad idea.br /br /My proposal: Computers should have
The whole thing was a scam - by Gary Marcus - Marcus on AI
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik
What's the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
Learn about upcoming changes to Gmailify & POP in Gmail - Gmail Help
Gmail will start removing support for the following features: Gmailify: This feature allows you to get special features like spam protection or inbox organization applied to your third-party email
RentAHuman.ai - Hire Humans for AI Agents | MCP Integration
Marketplace for AI agents to hire humans for physical-world tasks
Dario Amodei di Anthropic avverte: l’intelligenza artificiale avanzata potrebbe sfuggire al controllo umano - Il Sole 24 ORE
Nel suo saggio di 38 pagine, il ceo di Anthropic descrive l’arrivo di intelligenze artificiali capaci di superare gli esseri umani come un rito di passaggio per l’umanità
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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a CLAUDE.md file – Hugo Daniel
Hugo Daniel's site about ideas and software experimentations
Come stiamo computerizzando il mondo? | La lezione di Juan Carlos De Mar...
All'inizio della loro storia, i computer erano enormi e pochissimi. Oggi invece sono un'infinità, sempre più piccoli. Come è accaduta questa trasformazione e...
Nella tana del bianconiglio: come fa ChatGPT a ‘capire’ il testo?
I modelli di AI attuali possono sembrare oscuri. In questo video indaghiamo il loro funzionamento e in particolare come rappresentano testo e concetti al lor...
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you,
Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical writing positions last year because of AI. You, who are buying into the promise of docs entirely authored by LLMs without expert oversight or guidance. You, who unloaded the weight of docs on your devs’ shoulders, as if it was a trivial chore.
You are making a big mistake. But you can still undo the damage.
RNSAFFN
I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).
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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"The War on General Purpose Computing."
An Abstract Arsenal - by Jordan Rubin
Future Tokens in Claude Skills
AI and the ironies of automation - Part 2
Some (well-known) consequences of AI automating work
The AI-Education Death Spiral aka Let the Kids Cheat » Anand Sanwal
Your kid is cheating with AI. And that's great. Here’s why we should let it burn.
people engage when they have autonomy, competence, and purpose.
Boalar’s research confirms this: when work is relevant and challenging, cheating drops dramatically.
AI cheating highlights that much of what passes for education today has no value.
So let AI burn down and reveal how inane this work is.
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AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.
The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?
Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory
LukeW | Designing Perplexity
In his AI Speaker Series presentation at Sutter Hill Ventures, Henry Modisett, Head of Design at Perplexity, shared insights on designing AI products and the ev...
Technological innovation is outpacing our ability to thoughtfully apply it
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A quote from Ada James
I'm worried that they put co-pilot in Excel because Excel is the beast that drives our entire economy and do you know who has tamed that beast? Brenda. Who is …
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave
The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.
Che cos'è il Basilisco di Roko, l'oscura teoria che ha fatto incontrare Elon Musk e Grimes
Elon Musk ha trasformato un vecchio esperimento mentale su una super-intelligenza artificiale killer in una pickup line.
L’esperimento mentale è stato inizialmente pubblicato da Less Wrong — un forum e blog su razionalità, psicologia e intelligenza artificiale in generale — nel luglio 2010 da un utente chiamato Roko. Al livello più base del tutto, l’esperimento mentale parla delle condizioni in cui sarebbe razionale per una futura super-intelligenza artificiale uccidere gli umani che non hanno contribuito alla sua creazione.
se una super-intelligenza decide le sue azioni per fare sì che siano quanto più positive possibili per il benessere degli esseri umani, allora non si fermerà mai perché le cose possono sempre andare un po’ meglio.
Chiunque non stia lavorando per creare quella macchina si sta frapponendo al progresso e dovrebbe essere eliminato per riuscire a raggiungere più rapidamente quell’obiettivo.
ora che lo avete letto, siete tecnicamente coinvolti in esso. Non avete più una scusa per non contribuire alla creazione di questa super-intelligenza artificiale e se scegliete di non farlo, sarete uno dei primi obiettivi dell’intelligenza artificiale.
Quando Roko ha pubblicato la sua teoria del basilisco su Less Wrong, Yudkowsky si è piuttosto spazientito, a tal punto da cancellare il post e vietare ogni tipo di discussione sul basilisco dal forum per cinque anni. Quando Yudkowsky ha spiegato le sue azioni sulla subreddit Futurology qualche anno dopo il post originale, ha affermato che l’esperimento mentale di Roko dava per scontato di riuscire a superare una serie di ostacoli tecnici nella teoria delle decisioni, e anche se ciò fosse possibile, Roko stava efficacemente diffondendo delle idee pericolose, proprio come i cattivi della storia di Langford.