Collaborate Disseminate
Meet the “journalist” who “uploads press releases or analyst notes into AI tools and prompts them to spit out articles that he can edit and publish quickly,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
“AI-assisted stories accounted for nearly 20% of Fortu… Continue reading Will ‘AI-Assisted’ Journalists Bring Errors and Retractions?
I may or may not write and publish a short e-book about Markdown sometime this year, most likely as part of a monthly focus. But I’ve written small parts of it already, as I do, and I figured it might be interesting for at least some readers. And… Continue reading The Markdown Book: On Writing ⭐️
When taking macro photographs, you often need just a tiny bit of controlled motion — so little that it’s tough to pull off by hand. To address this, [Salveo] designed …read more Continue reading Tiny Moves, Big Depth: An Open-Source Macro Focus Slider
One crime ring scammed 2,000 elderly people of more than $27 million between 2021 and 2023 using tech support/bank impersonation/refund scams. “Victims were in their 70s and 80s,” reports the U.S. Attorney’s office for California’s southern district. V… Continue reading Crooks Behind $27M in ‘Refund’ Scams Busted By YouTube Pranksters After Being Lured to Fake Funeral
Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of… Continue reading $285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation
11 days ago Apple launched device-level age restrictions in the U.K. There were some glitches, reports the blog 9to5Mac.
For me, the experience was an entirely painless one, taking less than 30 seconds. All I had to do was tap a confirm and continue b… Continue reading Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries
Despite a few high-profile cases in recent years with lawyers getting caught using LLM-generated documents and facing disciplinary action due to this, it would seem that this is not deterring …read more Continue reading Despite Penalties, Lawyers Can’t Stop Using AI
“Google has announced that it’s currently testing a new feature for Chrome 148 that could speed up day-to-day browsing,” reports PC World:
[T]he browser can intelligently postpone the loading of certain elements. Why load all images at the start when… Continue reading Chrome 148 Will Start ‘Lazy Loading’ Video and Audio to Improve Performance
LinkedIn is accused in the BrowserGate report of tracking 6,000+ browser extensions on users’ PCs, raising concerns over privacy and data collection practices. Continue reading BrowserGate: LinkedIn Tracks 6,000+ Browser Extensions on Users’ PCs
Plants, toads, and mushrooms “can all produce psychedelic substances,” writes ScienceAlert.
“And now their powers have been combined in one plant.”
[S]cientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introdu… Continue reading Scientists Engineered a Plant To Produce 5 Different Psychedelics At Once