How Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted
The 2023 murder of a tech executive seemed to fit neatly into narratives about street crime in liberal cities, until it didn't.
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland”
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.” Bluesky: @jonayariley , @jimllmixit , @dankenne...
The Johns Hopkins University Press will license its authors' books to train AI models, citing concerns that “the window may be closing” for making AI deals
Authors have until the end … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Johns Hopkins Press to License Books for AI Training, Sparking Author Backlash and Industry Debate Bluesky: Christos Lynteris / @visualp...
Apple says warnings on EU App Store listings for apps not using IAP have been up since March 2024, and the EU told it to hold off on tweaks that Apple proposed
[images] Joe Rosensteel / @joesteel@duck.haus : That list is terrible. The check mark being on the right and the text on the left .. it's not giving “clarity.” — There are some big Home app vibes i...
A leaked Chinese dataset on “public opinion work” reveals 133,000 entries fed into an LLM designed to automatically flag content deemed sensitive by China
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch : X: @byron_wan . Forums: r/technology X: Byron Wan / @byron_wan : A leaked dataset of 133,000 text examples reveals how a sophisticated large language model is being desi...
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel. — www.nbcnews.com/p...
Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” — “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” — “Normalize Indian hate.” — www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st... [embedded post] Ryan ...
Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern
You are probably sick of hearing about OpenAI palace intrigue … Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware : OpenAI Is Close to AI Breakthrough That Could Threaten Humanity: Report Kate Seamons / Newser : Reuters:...
A look at Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, whose 1,200+ US employees knowingly or unwittingly reship consumer goods purchased online with stolen credit cards
One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. LinkedIn: Jennifer Yarbrough , Dr...
Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses
Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words Robert Andrew / CityL...