In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the agent to reject fre...
How “AI slop farmer” Jesse Cunningham targets older women on Pinterest and Facebook with AI-generated copies of content from real bloggers and creators
“It's just a bunch of fraud.” — Last year, Jesse Cunningham — a self-described “SEO specialist who leverages the power … Bluesky: @alkal , @roxanna , @wagatwe.com , @eddierobson , @ositanwanevu.com ...
Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann's X activity and alleged 4chan posts suggest he might be Musk's fake online persona; source: the viral 4chan screenshot is fake
www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243... [embedded post] Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona : According to The Verge, that screenshot that seems to tie the Adrian Dittmann account directly to Elon Musk is alm...
A look at CoinDesk's blockbuster Alameda scoop that led to FTX's collapse and bankruptcy, adding to CoinDesk parent company Digital Currency Group's woes
What happens when a story has impact? … Depending on how you look at it, this is either a cautionary tale about how small and entwined … Tweets: @annkur , @anecdotal , @charlieshrem , and @mslopatto T...
Critiques of “anti-crypto media personalities” and the “podcast circuit” miss an essential point: Web3 currently sucks and saying so is not a conspiracy
Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy Tweets: @sriramk , @devon_wiersma , @broderick , @levie , @rjcc , @josephmdurso , @willoremus , @coloradotrav...
Several women who attended Miami's Bitcoin 2022 conference were harassed and say the conference didn't enforce its anti-harassment policies
For some women, inappropriate conduct from other conference-goers continued to haunt them online. — Miami's annual gathering of Bitcoin zealots began with a bull. Tweets: @wired , @do82nic , @mslopa...
Blind patients with Second Sight's electronic retinal implants are in danger of losing their artificial vision as the tech becomes obsolete and unsupported
Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark — Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour … Tweets: @carnage4life , @stephencass , @earthheir...
Survey of 1,200 US adults: 66% view Facebook favorably, down from 71% in 2020, compared to 79% for Apple (down 2%), 87% for Amazon (down 4%), and 90% for Google
After a year of the pandemic, we asked Americans if their trust in big tech companies has changed — and if the biggest ones should be broken up Tweets: @reckless , @nickconfessore , @nkulw , @tysonbro...
Google has restored service after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior” for a few hours
and has downranked the deliverability of my email address. There are cascading failures resulting from this interruption. https://twitter.com/... Eze Vidra / @ediggs : Another Google down time, organi...
Allies rally around Jack Dorsey as Elliott Management, reportedly with a ~4% stake in Twitter, puts pressure on the CEO, who may not survive the medium term
“The most feared investor in America” has Twitter's CEO in his sights — Were there not a deadly coronavirus spreading across the globe … Tweets: @steelhouse , @mslopatto , and @hkanji Tweets: @steel...