Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness
There are a lot of AI coding applications out there, and as impressive as large language models and the agents they enable have become, many of the most recent developments in AI…
Search
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
…Last year, author Lena McDonald faced widespread criticism when her book included an apparent AI-generated response that read, “I’ve rewritten the passage to align more with [fellow genre author] J…
Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders
…pursue all AI companies—not just OpenAI—Uthmeier said Florida is “certainly” looking at other platforms, but “ChatGPT appears to be the most egregious,” with Altman “central” to pushing features that are…
San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
…Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real people into explicit images. The harmful AI tools allow bad actors to remove clothing, change a person’s features…
Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory
…For example, in March, Apple quietly removed a memory-heavy configuration of the M3 Ultra Mac (which featured 512GB of memory) from its store. For long-time Apple customers who remember how…
Microsoft adds another year to Windows 10 extended update program
…Some have also avoided Windows 11 due to Microsoft’s intense focus on AI features. The result is that Windows 10 remains stubbornly popular. According to StatCounter data , Windows 10 is still…
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
…Why do you think AI is so appealing to political and business leaders in particular? Cory Doctorow: It’s not just that it makes for a good demo. AI really appeals to…
Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
…Wilderness Legacy appears to proceed with assisting the stranded boat, as described by the YouTube channel The Yacht Report in a video showing the AIS tracking paths. The Coast Guard confirmed that…
The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does
…It appears this feature will only be useful when the phone is face down, which many people instinctively avoid to prevent screen scratches. Perhaps Google will have some answer for that in…
Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses
…the geolocated images provided by app users scanning real-world locations. “Ground scans were one component to help train Niantic Spatial’s real-world foundation models —AI systems that learn to recognize…