The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
AI companies’ penchant for scraping through large swathes of the public web in search of valuable training data has already led to lawsuits and technical fixes aimed at stopping the…
Toddler’s tragic death from brain-destroying amoeba offers lessons for doctors
A healthy toddler in Washington state fell ill abruptly. It began with vomiting, lethargy, and weakness on his right side. Then it progressed to a headache, fever, and trouble swallowing.…
Not Ready For Prime Time: The Current State Of Legal Ethics And AI
I’ve been presenting at UC Law San Francisco Lexlab Law and AI certificate program its past several sessions, as well as some law school classes, on whether lawyers’ use of…
US boosts drone surveillance as flesh-eating screwworms spread in Texas
Hundreds of US government drones have switched from border surveillance to a different surveillance mission this summer—looking for signs of screwworm infestations in wild animals and livestock herds. The flesh-eating…
Trump sued over “brazen” scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month
President Trump was sued by nonprofit news groups today over Truth Social’s “Truth API” that sells real-time access to posts from Trump and other top users of the social network.…
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content models.” The change, announced today, comes more than two years…
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons predicted by…
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
Terabytes worth of credentials, many belonging to the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations, have been exposed in a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM, an open source tool that streamlines AI-driven…
Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He’s Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It
The reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500 word AI manifesto, “The Future is for Everyone,” has been all over the map. Given the messenger and the topic, there’s plenty of reasonable…
Two hydrogen-burning engines powered this car to a new land speed record
It’s been far too long since I’ve been able to report a new land speed record. For a while, it looked like Bloodhound might have been able to make good…