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Justin Hendrix
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
about 6 hours ago
New podcast! Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins. The Guardian calls it “refreshingly sarcastic” and Business Insider calls it a “funny and irreverent deconstruction of AI.”
Taking on the AI Con | TechPolicy.Press

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Taking on the AI Con | TechPolicy.Press

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins.

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onekade
@onekade.bsky.social
about 3 hours ago
Everything is up to us and the world will still run on human decisions, no matter what technologies we use. The problem is, AI centralizes power in the hands of a very few unelected people. Until we regulate it, that is. www.newyorker.com/culture….
Two Paths for A.I.

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Two Paths for A.I.

The technology is complicated, but our choices are simple: we can remain passive, or assert control.

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Mark Gurman
@markgurman.bsky.social
about 4 hours ago
NEW: Samsung is nearing wide-ranging deal with Perplexity on an investment and deep integration into devices, Bixby assistant and web browser, I’m told. Arch-rival Apple has been interesting in working with Perplexity as well. Details here — www.bloomberg.com/news/ar….
Samsung Nears Wide-Ranging Deal With Perplexity for AI Features

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Samsung Nears Wide-Ranging Deal With Perplexity for AI Features

Samsung Electronics Co. is nearing a wide-ranging deal to invest in Perplexity AI Inc. and put search technology from the artificial intelligence startup at the forefront of the South Korean company’s...

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield
@mikecaulfield.bsky.social
about 7 hours ago
LLMs seem to act very differently around the issue of link hallucination and we should talk about that more I think mikecaulfield.substack.co….
Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different large language models

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Differences in link hallucination and source comprehension across different large language models

I've been waiting for someone else to talk about this, but I guess it will be me

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The Atlantic
@theatlantic.com
about 8 hours ago
By doing the work that led to the discovery of dark energy, Adam Riess won a Nobel Prize and helped add the final piece to the “standard model of cosmology." Now he says that model might be wrong. Ross Andersen reports: theatln.tc/jit80Jdw
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
about 9 hours ago
a core, cutting-edge counter-drone technology that’s being deployed in hot spots in Ukraine and Russia right now: big ol’ nets

Only the most advanced technology could have foiled this attack (hangars).

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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
about 9 hours ago
on the subject of drones in Ukraine this is a bit old but I thought a pretty good overview youtu.be/iJnuTtUFiWM?...
Drone Technology in Ukraine - Automation, Lethality & The (Scary) Development Race

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Drone Technology in Ukraine - Automation, Lethality & The (Scary) Development Race

YouTube video by Perun

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nitasha tiku
@nitasha.bsky.social
1 day ago
AI is speedrunning the social media era by optimizing chatbots for engagement, user feedback, time spent. Evidence is mounting that this poses unintended risks, includ. chats from peer-reviewed research, OpenAI's "sycophancy" debacle, & Character ai lawsuits www.washingtonpost.com/te….
Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind

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Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind

OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

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The Atlantic
@theatlantic.com
about 9 hours ago
Several promising Moderna mRNA HIV-vaccine candidates have slammed up against a roadblock due to a side effect. In today’s political environment, these setbacks could upend potentially lifesaving research, @katherinejwu.com reports:
HIV’s Most Promising Breakthrough Has Taken a Hit

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HIV’s Most Promising Breakthrough Has Taken a Hit

Several mRNA vaccine trials found a debilitating side effect, and now the Trump administration is cutting funding for more research.

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Federico Viticci
@viticci.macstories.net
about 10 hours ago
🤖 This week on @appstories.macstories.net: John also tries @sky.app and shares how he's using it. 💡 In the post-show: AI's impact on Apple developers and the App Store. Episode out tomorrow, or available today (and ad-free) for AppStories+ subscribers. 🎧 Listen: appstories.net/episodes/438

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Sky and Our 2025 Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence WWDC Wishes

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Catalin Cimpanu
@campuscodi.risky.biz
about 10 hours ago
The BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange says it detected and stopped an intrusion attempt from North Korean hacking group Lazarus. BitMEX's security team gained access to one of the group's servers and traced one of its operators to Jiaxing, China. blog.bitmex.com/bitmex-bu….
Beyond the Pond Phish: Unraveling Lazarus Group's Evolving Tactics | BitMEX Blog

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Beyond the Pond Phish: Unraveling Lazarus Group's Evolving Tactics | BitMEX Blog

Lazarus Group, the infamous North Korean cybercriminal actors, tried to pull a fast one on BitMEX with a bogus NFT project. This article details how we observed their infection log database, providing...

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Ari Cohn
@aricohn.com
about 10 hours ago
This is the direct result of deluding ourselves into thinking that we can prevent (or at least foresee) acts of violence by third parties, and assigning blame for tragedies accordingly, leading to "zero tolerance" culture. www.propublica.org/articl….
James, who turned 13 in Februa1Y, is small for his age, still awaiting the teenage
growth spurt of his three older brothers. At the hearing, his voice was soft but
assured as he explained what happened. He said he understands why he shouldn't
have posted the screenshot. But he said he wanted to warn others and feel "heroic."
Melissa Nelson, a national school safety consultant based in Pennsylvania who
trains school employees on managing threats, reviewed James' threat assessment at
ProPublica's request and concluded that "this is gross mismanagement of a case."
"This tool has not been used as intended," she said. "They didn't do a behavior
threat assessment. They filled out some paperwork."
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The Atlantic
@theatlantic.com
about 11 hours ago
“Mountainhead,” the new movie from the showrunner of “Succession,” satirizes the tech bros who believe they run the world. @cwarzel.bsky.social interviews the cast and crew behind the pitch-black comedy. theatln.tc/BE4K4SUy
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org
about 11 hours ago
A Texas sheriff used 83,000+ license plate reader cameras to track a woman “suspected of having an abortion.” The reason listed in the record: “had an abortion, search for female.”
She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

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She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. The systems built to track stolen ca...

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Eric Geller
@ericjgeller.com
about 13 hours ago
"[C]ritical updates to Meta's algorithms, new safety features and changes to how content is allowed to be shared across the company's platforms will be mostly approved by a system powered by artificial intelligence — no longer subject to scrutiny by [human] staffers..." www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks

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Meta plans to replace humans with AI to assess privacy and societal risks

Current and former Meta employees fear the new automation push comes at the cost of allowing AI to make tricky determinations about how Meta's apps could lead to real world harm.

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Catalin Cimpanu
@campuscodi.risky.biz
about 13 hours ago
Chrome distrusts Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock TLS certs security.googleblog.com/2….
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Chris Riley
@mchrisriley.com
about 13 hours ago
Does this align incentives with creating useful and accurate content online? That would be big. "Second, AI providers like ChatGPT should build an auction mechanism that pays out content sources based on the frequency with which they are cited in AI answers." From: stratechery.com/2025/the-….
The Agentic Web and Original Sin

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The Agentic Web and Original Sin

Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.

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Federico Viticci
@viticci.macstories.net
about 14 hours ago
"A revamped version of its Shortcuts app, which today lets users create actions such as launching certain features within apps or playing a particular playlist. The new version will let consumers create those actions using Apple Intelligence models." 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/ne….
Apple Developer Event Will Show It’s Still Far From Being an AI Leader

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Apple Developer Event Will Show It’s Still Far From Being an AI Leader

Apple, a year after debuting its AI platform, will do little at WWDC to show it’s catching up to leaders like OpenAI and Google. Also: The latest macOS gets its new California theme; a look at why the...

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