Collaborate Disseminate
Can being “very online” really affect our brains, asks the Washington Post:
Research suggests that scrolling through short videos on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube Shorts is affecting our attention, memory and mental health. A recent meta-analysis of t… Continue reading Is ‘Brain Rot’ Real? How Too Much Time Online Can Affect Your Mind.
This week the Python Software Foundation explained how they keep Python secure. A new blog post recognizes the volunteers and paid Python Software Foundation staff on the Python Security Response Team (PSRT), who “triage and coordinate vulnerability re… Continue reading How Python’s Security Response Team Keeps Python Users Safe
IT productivity researcher Erik Brynjolfsson writes in the Financial Times that he’s finally found evidence AI is impacting America’s economy. This week America’s Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a 403,000 drop in 2025’s payroll growth — while r… Continue reading Where’s The Evidence That AI Increases Productivity?
Installing Linux on a MacBook Air “turned out to be a very underwhelming experience,” according to the tech news site MakeUseOf:
The thing about Apple silicon Macs is that it’s not as simple as downloading an AArch64 ISO of your favorite distro and i… Continue reading ‘I Tried Running Linux On an Apple Silicon Mac and Regretted It’
Google never asked its users before adding AI Overviews to its search results and AI-generated email summaries to Gmail, notes the New York Times. And Meta didn’t ask before making “Meta AI” an unremovable part of its tool in Instagram, WhatsApp and Me… Continue reading Will Tech Giants Just Use AI Interactions to Create More Effective Ads?
Last week Scott Shambaugh learned an AI agent published a “hit piece” about him after he’d rejected the AI agent’s pull request. (And that incident was covered by Ars Technica’s senior AI reporter.)
But then Shambaugh realized their article attribute… Continue reading Ars Technica’s AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes
Rivian’s stock skyrocketed 27% Friday after the electric car maker “shocked the market with strong earnings results,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “proving itself an outlier in the EV market, which has been struggling with the end of government subsi… Continue reading Rivian’s Stock Spikes 27% After Reporting $144 Million Profit in 2025
Bloomberg reports:
India tightened rules governing social media content and platforms, particularly targeting artificially generated and manipulated material, in a bid to crack down on the rapid spread of misinformation and deepfakes. The government o… Continue reading India’s New Social Media Rules: Remove Unlawful Content in Three Hours, Detect Illegal AI Content Automatically
While serving his 25-year prison sentence, “convicted former cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday requested a new federal trial,” reports Courthouse News, “based on what he says is newly discovered evidence concerning his company’s solvenc… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case
Cord Cutters News reports:
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just as it departs from th… Continue reading ‘Babylon 5’ Episodes Start Appearing (Free) on YouTube