Collaborate Disseminate
The Internet Bug Bounty program “has been paused for new submissions,” they announced last week.
Running since 2012, the program is funded by “a number of leading software companies,” reports InfoWorld, “and has awarded more than $1.5m to researchers… Continue reading Internet Bug Bounty Pauses Payouts, Citing ‘Expanding Discovery’ From AI-Assisted Research
That leak of Claude Code’s source code “revealed “all kinds of juicy details,” writes PC World.
The more than 500,000 lines of code included:
– An ‘undercover mode’ for Claude that allows it to make ‘stealth’ contributions to public code bases
– An ‘… Continue reading Claude Code Leak Reveals a ‘Stealth’ Mode for GenAI Code Contributions – and a ‘Frustration Words’ Regex
Hundreds of theatres are now showing a new documentary called The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist. Variety calls it “playful and heady,”edited “with a spirit of ADHD alertness.” The New York Times suggests it “tries to cover so much that it e… Continue reading Hundreds of Theatres Show Apocalyptic-Yet-Optimistic New Movie, ‘The AI Doc’
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?
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
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
“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
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
“Canonical is no longer pretending that 4GB is enough,” writes the blog How-to-Geek, noting Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “raises the baseline memory to 6GB, alongside a 2GHz dual-core processor, and 25GB of storage…”
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) set the floor… Continue reading Does Ubuntu Now Require More RAM Than Windows 11?
Apple’s 50th anniversary got celebrated in weird and wild ways. CEO Tim Cook posted a special 30-second video rewinding backwards through the years of Apple’s products until it reaches the Apple I. Podcaster Lex Fridman noticed if you play the sound in… Continue reading Apple’s First 50 Years Celebrated – Including How Steve Jobs Finally Accepted an ‘Open’ App Store