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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (148+ words) This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby404 Media This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby A new hobbyist developed app warns if people nearby may be wearing smart glasses, such as Meta's Ray-Ban…...
Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor"
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (462+ words) Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor'404 Media Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor' Last week, Business Insider reported on a Meta patent describing a system that…...
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
1+ week, 1+ day ago (441+ words) The Conde Nast-owned tech publication Ars Technica has retracted an article that contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes, according to an editor's note posted to its website." Ironically, the Ars article itself was partially about another AI-generated article." After Shambaugh rejected MJ…...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (787+ words) With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet404 Media With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet America, it's time to refamiliarize yourself with Ring. It does not take an imagination of any sort to envision this being tweaked to work…...
Behind the Blog: The Neverending Cybersecurity Story
2+ week, 3+ day ago (164+ words) Behind the Blog: The Neverending Cybersecurity Story404 Media Behind the Blog: The Neverending Cybersecurity Story JOSEPH: This week we reported how the FBI has been unable to get into a Washington Post reporter's iPhone because it was in Lockdown Mode. Side…...
Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue
2+ week, 5+ day ago (450+ words) According to a new study from a team of researchers in Europe, vibe coding is killing open-source software (OSS) and it's happening faster than anyone predicted." Open-source projects rely on community support to survive. They're collaborative projects where the people…...
Silicon Valley’s Favorite New AI Agent Has Serious Security Flaws
3+ week, 4+ day ago (459+ words) A hacker demonstrated that the viral new AI agent Moltbot (formally Clawdbot) is easy to hack via a backdoor in an attached support shop.Clawdbot has become a Silicon Valley sensation among a certain type of AI-booster techbro, and the…...
Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
3+ week, 5+ day ago (276+ words) Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations404 Media Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations Chat & Ask AI, one of the most popular AI apps on the Google Play and Apple App stores that claims…...
Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (25+ words) Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods404 Media Podcast: The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods 2:50 - First Story 23:00 - Second Story...
Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (828+ words) Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere404 Media Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere The biggest AI story of the first week of 2026 involves Elon Musk's Grok chatbot turning the social media platform into an AI…...