Collaborate Disseminate
Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX has open sourced the Grok Build CLI this week, reports The Register, “just days after researchers caught the AI tool scooping up users’ entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage.”
That disco… Continue reading ‘Grok Build’ Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention
“OpenAI has finally confirmed reports that its latest family of large language models can accidentally delete files,” reports InfoWorld, “while stressing that such incidents are rare and should be viewed as ‘honest mistakes.'”
Reports of the flagshi… Continue reading OpenAI Acknowledges GPT-5.6 May Accidentally Delete Files, Calls It ‘Honest Mistake’
France’s regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games “announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket,” reports Engadget. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site “could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or… Continue reading France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket
France’s regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games “announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket,” reports Engadget. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site “could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or… Continue reading France Orders ISPs to Block Access to Polymarket
This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America’s biggest cybersecurity adversary — and… Continue reading How Microsoft’s ‘Little Workaround’ Created a Major Threat to America’s Defense Department
This week Slashdot reader joshuark found the story of exactly how in 2025 ProPublica reporter Renee Dudley confirmed Microsoft was running tech support for the U.S. Defense Department through China, America’s biggest cybersecurity adversary — and… Continue reading How Microsoft’s ‘Little Workaround’ Created a Major Threat to America’s Defense Department
Reuters reports:
Incoming British prime minister Andy Burnham will scrap the government’s troubled plans for a digital ID scheme when he enters office on Monday, a spokesperson for the new Labour Party leader said. Resources devoted to the scheme, de… Continue reading Next UK Prime Minister Drops Digital ID Scheme
“Approximately half of Gen Z and millennials who have purchased a CD do not own a CD player,” according to midyear sales statistics from entertainment data company Luminate. It’s driven in part by “collection building”, according to their report [PDF]:… Continue reading Gen Z and Millennials are Buying CDs – Though Half Don’t Have CD Players
“One of the most interesting BSD variants of the 2010s, NextBSD, has come back to life under new management,” reports The Register:
Aside from the homepage, there’s a GitHub repository — but beware, this is separate from the old one, whose repo… Continue reading NextBSD Returns to Port Apple Source Onto FreeBSD
In a sign of our times, CNBC’s Jim Cramer “said Wednesday that it’s time for companies to prove artificial intelligence is paying off,” reports CNBC:
“I need cold hard return facts,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical th… Continue reading CNBC’s Jim Cramer Says He Needs ‘Cold Hard’ Proof AI Is Paying Off