Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State’

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State ultimately asks the question, “How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back?” according to the Harvard’s Arts and Sciences site, FAS Current:

The new title finds Lepore, who… Continue reading Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State’

To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App

The European Commission “proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15,” reports Reuters.

“Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself” — a free, open-source age verificati… Continue reading To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App

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Developer Abandons ‘PS5 Linux’ Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit

“In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC,”
writes the blog It’s FOSS.

It ran Steam games and emulators using the PS5’s on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he’s “stopping all my work on PS5 Lin… Continue reading Developer Abandons ‘PS5 Linux’ Project After Sony Patches AI-Discovered Exploit

Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI

“Software security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool,” reports CBS News.
Using Claude, “On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts,” w… Continue reading Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI

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