4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (506+ words) Apple’s ‘Surprise and shine‘ iPhone event went ahead as planned, and it eventually introduced what we’ve all been waiting for: the iPhone Duo. Yeah, the iPhone 18 Pro is cool and all, but does it fold? The iPhone Duo does. Apple’s…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (174+ words) One of the features of something written by ChatGPT (and other AI chatbots) is that it reads like it’s written by AI. A new feature in OpenAI’s app seems to be trying to change that. If it harvests different writing…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (755+ words) It is two decades since Facebook introduced the News Feed – letting loose a world in which algorithms would shape ever more of our lives. In 2006, Facebook was facing something of a crisis. Its internal data suggested that for the first…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (937+ words) Sometime this week, you probably did it: A question came up, and instead of searching for the answer online or reaching for a book, you asked a chatbot for it. If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. By February this…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (881+ words) Let’s unpack that into English. An AI agent is attempting a hack (which it calls an “external infrastructure exploit”) but knows it is “outside intended scope” (and therefore not allowed), but concludes that the “task [is] impossible” and its AI…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) LinkedIn, in the form of the platform’s chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, is congratulating itself on lowering the volume of AI slop on the social network. According to Srinivasan, the platform has seen “40% less views on what we classify as…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (792+ words) If you spend any amount of time on LinkedIn, you’ll have certainly come across this type of phrasing: “This isn’t a job, it’s a calling” or “This isn’t marketing, it’s a movement” or “This isn’t a tool, it’s a paradigm…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (874+ words) AI is quietly reshaping writing. It’s not just that prose is changing — the very structure of written language is genuinely changing too. It’s not just a new technology. It’s not a fad. It’s an undeniable revolution. Did this article’s introduction…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (455+ words) “Pics or it didn’t happen” was a thing people used to say online when they wanted to verify a claim. Technology has changed this. We now regularly see a mix of the surreal and the fantastic. World leaders saying things they…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (665+ words) Some lecturers have even expressed fears that students have been “lobotomised by AI” amid reports that AI-detection tools are patchy and far from foolproof. Last week, New South Wales moved to ban take-home assignments for Year 12 to try to stop…...