Anthropic plans to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on August 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Code “continuously in the background”
It's Bad Business Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : That is not what is happening here, this is not Anthropic “doing the drug dealer model” — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... [embedded post]...
Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy
'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning Issued Vinayak Guha / Android Authority : Flaw in Verizon Pixel's firmware poses serious security threat (Update: Google statement) Threads: Lauren Goode / @laurengoode...
Investigation: 22M+ flight coordinates show how the US' first police drone program, in Chula Vista, California, impacts residents and raises privacy concerns
In Chula Vista—based on analysis of more than 22.3 million coordinates from flight paths—police drones subject poorer residents to more surveillance and the drones are used to respond to minor potenti...
Extremely Hardcore book excerpt: how Elon Musk's decision to impose rate limits on Twitter in summer 2023 helped upsell Blue, as he prepared to launch xAI
Zoë Schiffer / Wired : Bluesky: @zoeschiffer.bsky.social . X: @laurengoode . Forums: r/Twitter Bluesky: Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer.bsky.social : For Wired, a new excerpt from my book, Extremely Hard...
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more
Wired : Tweets: @laurengoode and @wired Tweets: Lauren Goode / @laurengoode : This was such a fun - and enlightening - episode. I also tested @glichfield on his ability to spot AI music and let's jus...
An interview with Pitchfork EIC Puja Patel on how AI is infiltrating every single aspect of music, AI-generated music's ownership and money concerns, and more
We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of The Pitchfork Review, about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here. Tweets: @wired and @laurengoode Tweets: @wire...
GPT-4 has learned to be more precise and more accurate than its predecessor, gained the ability to respond to images as well as text, but still hallucinates
from processing pictures to acing tests Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust : GPT-4's successes, and GPT-4's failures Tweets: Geoff Brumfiel / @gbrumfiel : I got access to @OpenAI's GPT 4 this m...
Three things Web3 should fix in 2022: make crypto transactions safe and reliable, make blockchains efficient, develop tech for mitigating harassment and abuse
A viral video highlights some very real shortcomings in the next-generation internet — Last weekend, it felt like everyone I knew was sending me the same link. Tweets: @caseynewton , @laurengoode , ...
A look at Vaccine Talk, a tightly moderated Facebook group for vaccine skeptics with ~70K members that aims to change their minds with evidence-based info
As social media giants struggle to crack down on false claims about covid, ordinary users are finding ways to reach vaccine skeptics — and win them over. Tweets: @cwarzel , @ethanz , @aetiology , @lau...
Leaked dataset from a location data company with a log of the movements of 12M+ Americans shows how “anonymous” location data can be used to track people
and it's not hard to figure out who you are Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo : Holy Shit, Reportedly Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central : Your phone tracks your every move and there is nothing you can do ab...