Collaborate Disseminate
“Vibe coding just got a whole lot more adorable,” writes Engadget:
OpenAI introduced AI-generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that helps with coding. These “optional animated companions” don’t do any coding themselves, but serve as a floati… Continue reading OpenAI Introduces AI-Generated Pets for Its Codex App
The Associated Press reports:
On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona’s Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn’t a cloud or dust, then alerted the state’s fores… Continue reading AI Cameras are Being Deployed Across the Western US for Early Detection of Wildfires
A new meta-analysis found nutrients in food decreased over the last 40 years, reports the Washington Post. “Many of humanity’s most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a gen… Continue reading Carbon Pollution Is Making Food Less Nutritious, Risking the Health of Billions
A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station:
The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks u… Continue reading Robots Are Building Clay Homes In Texas Using Dirt From the Ground
A 1999 press release bragged “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. “In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions,” remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis… Continue reading It’s Goodbye Time for Jeeves and Ask.com – Relics of Yesterday’s Internet
Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. At a recent NYU lecture, he describes a conversation with an Amazon executive, Kotaku reports:
“Amazon was looking to get bigg… Continue reading Former Nintendo Executive Says Amazon Once Requested ‘Illegal’ Price Discounts
The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI “recently gave its popular ChatGPT strict instructions. Stop talking about goblins.”
Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemi… Continue reading ChatGPT Became So Obsessed With Goblins That OpenAI Had to Intervene
An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country’s national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, “after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited academic articles that were ‘fictitious’.”
Earlier this month, minist… Continue reading South Africa’s Draft AI Policy Withdrawn Due to ‘Fictitious’ AI-Generated Citations
“Ransomware activity jumped again in Q1 2026,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “with 2,638 victim posts on leak sites, up 22% year over year,” according to a report from cybersecurity company ReliaQuest.
But the bigger shift is how messy the ecos… Continue reading Ransomware Is Getting Uglier As Cybercriminals Fake Leaks and Skip Encryption Entirely
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC:
“If even one extra person is able to access the internet, I think it’s successful and it’s worth it,” says Sahand. The Iranian man is visibly anxious, speaking to the BBC outside Iran, as he careful… Continue reading Smuggled Starlink Terminals are Beating Iran’s Internet Blackout